Welcome to our Projects Section

With a 25 year history, CHR Equipment has the proven reliability to deliver what is required, when required, on time, to ‘best value practice' and in budget. Our ethos is to help chefs deliver, consistently, whether a new build or refurbishment.

Many of our clients use us time and again, comfortable in the high level of personal service we offer and our ability to accommodate their needs.

Our solutions continue to evolve, keeping at the forefront of technologies. As a result, we have developed strategies using water bath cooking (sous vide), and have now achieved a virtually panless kitchen. The introduction of metered kitchens enables us and our clients to precisely monitor and control costs/head. We have created sustainable approaches which reduce fuel bills and your carbon footprint.

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Past Clients in Various Sectors

Hotels & Restaurants

Our first project was Paul Heathcote’s at Longridge: the equipment we installed- one of the first made-to-measure ranges in the north of England- is still in operation today, almost 20 years on!

One of our latest installations, The Freemasons at Wiswell, already a Michelin-honoured establishment, delivers a state-of-art kitchen which has improved workflow and enhanced the consistency of quality.

Other projects include Bibis Palace in Leeds, one of the largest Italian restaurants in the UK, High Street chains Via Tiggis and Burlingtons…

Holiday Inn - Leicester
 holiday inn
Glenridding hotel
When John came to speak to CHR about replacing his old kitchen, he had quite an unusual story to tell...
The main production kitchen is located in the basement of the hotel and runs along side the picturess stream in Glenridding itself.But when the snow arrives then thaws, the levels of the steam would rise so high it would flood the kitchen by approx two feet! Working in the 180 year old building with 5ft thick walls, CHR adapted a new drainage system in to the kitchen designed to allow water in at a lower level , but to ensure it would not rise over 100mm in depth.

Everything in the kitchen was then installed on 150 mm stainless steel plinths to ensure the next time the snow came, the hotel only needed a mop, not the insurance broker!

Following the success of the Kitchen CHR was awarded the contract to fit out Kilners Coffee Bar and Internet Café in the adjacent building, to offer fresh pastries ,cakes and light snacks all year round.		 Glen Ridding hotel
The Beeches Hotel
Read more here . . .!		 the Beeches hotel
Winteringham Fields
Winteringham Fields hotel is a 16th century Manor House set in a quiet rural village. Known As the RESTAURANT with Rooms
Germain Schwab
AA: Five Rosettes
Egon Ronay: Two Stars
Good Food Guide: 9
Michelin: One Star which then become two
This Restaurant was the only Restaurant to ever receive the Egon Ronay Kitchen of the Year award which was just after we installed the kitchen.

CHR provided a new bespoke cooking suit to the exact requirments of Germain and his Team,

Now under new ownership with Colin, CHR have just been back to service the cooker which is still in operation 14 years on.		 Winteringham Fields
The Yorke Arms
Restaurant of the Year 1999 – The Yorkshire Post
Hotel of the Year 1999 – Caesar Award Good Hotel Guide
Restaurant of the Year 2000 – Good Food Guide
Wine List of the Year 2000 – Les Routier
Chef of the year 2001/2 – Yorkshire Life Magazine
Restaurant of the Year 2002/3 – Yorkshire Life Magazine
Top 25 UK Restaurants – Egon Ronay 2005/6
Square Meal Most Romantic Restaurant – February 2007
UK Restaurant of the Year 2007/8 – The Good Food Guide
Best UK Restaurant for Game Cooking – November 2007
Frances Atkins is a fellow of the Masterchefs of Great Britain and is one of only six female Michelin starred chefs in the UK. She has held one Michelin star continuously since 2003

CHR worked with Frances back in 2002 a year before it won its star, with the central cooking stove/ island range being hand built by CHR to chef Frances Atkins’ own specification, and is also annually serviced (by the same engineer who originally fitted it).
Ron Neville, managing director of the kitchen company, wryly observes, “We can’t make a bad chef good, but we can make any chef consistent! It’s a partnership, designing and installing the most appropriate equipment for each scenario, so it can deliver consistently and profitably. The Yorke Arms is a prime example: the kitchen we delivered for Frances combined good equipment such as a small range, a chargrill and fryer that were already there when she took over, integrated with items such as the 2.3m one piece cooking stove designed to her exact needs.”
It’s good to see that Frances and the team at the york arms have managed to retian her star ever since the award in 2003.		 The Yorke Arms
THE STAR INN
The Star Inn / Harome / Near Helmsley / North Yorkshire YO62 5JE

“Andrew Pern, co-owner and chef at The Star Inn at Harome, adds, “Being chosen as one of the top 10 gourmet hotels by the Good Hotel Guide is a valued accreditation. CHR’s kitchen in the hotel enables us to deliver superb quality food for every guest, every day, year on year.””

Read the Story here...		 THE STAR INN
Freemasons at Wiswell
One of the UK’s most promising chefs believes his new kitchen can help him to build on growing industry acclaim!

Chef/patron Steven Smith of The Freemasons at Wiswell combines his skills with innovative techniques, and has had installed a new kitchen designed and fitted by CHR Equipment.

Read the Story here...

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Education

Education

CHR has years of experience in the education sector, delivering effective kitchens for primary schools through to colleges of further education. In this market more than any other, budgets are a primary concern for our clients- a concern we appreciate: at one college refurbishment, we utilized £¼m of existing, still efficient, equipment from a kitchen we first installed 12 years previously in the new design, thus helping the establishment to secure funding for further upgrading.

See the case studies . . .

Academy Schools - Large Scale Projects

  
Witham Academy
Lincoln
Ground Floor Kitchen and Servery
City of Lincoln Academy
Ground Floor Kitchen and Servery
Priory LSST Academy
Lincoln
First Floor 6th Form Café Area
First Floor Catering Teaching Block
Ground Floor Kitchen and Servery
First Floor Café to sports complex
Washington Academy
Sunderland
Ground Floor Kitchen and Servery
Pennywell Academy
Sunderland
Ground Floor Kitchen and Servery
  

High Schools

  
Boardsley Green Girls Schools
Birmingham
Hutton Grammer School
Preston
Avonbourne School
Avonbourne
Holly Head School
Anglesey
Caledon Castle School
Coventry
Bournemouth Boys School
Bournemouth

Colleges

  
Preston College
Bexley College
Bury College
Bolton College
Blackpool College
Blackburn College
Stockport College
Burnley College
Wigan & Leigh College
St Helens College
Henley College
Runshaw College
City of Islington College
London
Brooke Weston City College
London
Wallsaw College
Birmingham
London Business School
London
James Watt College
Southport College
Dudley College
LLandrillo College
North Wales
Sutton Coalfield College-
Case Study – Coffee shop/Starbucks

High Schools

  
Boardsley Green Girls Schools
Birmingham
Bournemouth Boys School
Bournemouth
Hutton Grammer School
Preston
Avonbourne School
Avonbourne
Holly Head School
Anglesey
Caledon Castle School
Coventry

Primary Schools –

  
St Catherine Primary School
Preston
Acre Hall Primary School
Manchester
Broomwood Primary School
Manchester
Corinthian County Primary School
Liverpool
Hayes Lane Primary School
Manchester
Molfrey Primary School
Anglesea

University’s

  
Manchester University
Staffordshire University
Bangor University
Newcastle University
See the case studies . . .

Stadium & Events

Stadia & Attractions

With a huge amount of experience in delivering large scale catering, the CHR team has been involved in some of the best design teams in the UK and been fortunate enough to work in some of the biggest and best sporting arena and iconic buildings in Great Britain

Aintree Race Course
 aintree racecourse

Home of the Grand National: CHR was handed the task of delivering a £1/2 m project inside 10 weeks, with the end date being The Grand National. You will be pleased to read we got our nose in front and crossed the line in first place, creating central production kitchens in two new Grand Stands and associated works packages

  
       
Lancashire County Cricket Club
 lancashire county cricket club CHR has been working alongside the club for many years, including total refurbishment of all kitchen and bars to regular maintenance.  
       
LCCC The Point
 lancashire county cricket club club the point The Point is Lancashire County Cricket Club's stunning new £12M conference and events centre at Old Trafford. The Point compliments LCCC's well-established conference facilities and 68-bedroom Lodge.  
       
Canterbury Cathedral
 cantebury cathedral
The Cathedral is both a holy place and part of a World Heritage Site. Our work included a new catering facility, new counters and associated works within this Grade I listed building		  
       
Gorton Monastery
 gorton monastery The historic buildings were built between 1863 and 1872 by Franciscan monks who had come to Manchester in 1861 to serve the local Catholic community. Designed by Edward Pugin, whose father helped design the houses of Parliament, Gorton Monastery is considered one of his finest masterpieces. It was put on the World Monuments Fund Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites in the World in 1997, alongside Pompeii, Macchu Picchu, The Valley of the Kings, and the Taj Mahal. CHR worked closely with the design team and master chef Brian Mellor to produce a function kitchen capable of delivering 500 meals.  
       
Royal Birkdale Golf Club
 royal birkdale golf club Royal Birkdale is one of Britain’s finest golf clubs, voted the number 1 course to play in Britain and among the finest in the world. CHR was asked to sort out a poor ware washing area that had only recently been fitted. We took it from a bogie to a birdie in no time at all.  
       
DW Stadium-Wigan
 dw stadium wigan CHR working with on site caterers re-designed the whole ground catering areas to improve speed of service and average spend per head. From a cup of Bovril to a pint, hot dog to the pie, from home support to the away support, the ground catering was transformed to one of the best spend per head in today’s stadia , The really interesting part of this project was the pie ovens: after manufacturing a mock up oven designed to heat up pastry items such as pies in under 40 mins using a 13 amp plug n play unit. The results are so good, now these pie ovens are now installed at other grounds and include other works by CHR at, Liverpool FC, Everton FC, Oldham FC, Rochdale FC, Lancashire county cricket club- ground catering, Blackburn FC, Hull City Football Club, Burnley Football Club  
       
Leigh Sports Village
 leigh sports village Leigh Sports Village Stadium is a multi-million pound complex and has a spectator capacity of 11,000. CHR was asked to design the ground catering areas which comprised ten food and beverage outlets across the stadia. CHR also provided the whole fit out, installing new floors, ceilings and running all the first and second fix services to complement the design.  
       
Morecambe Football Club- Globe Arena
 morcambe fc With budgets on the new building running out, CHR came up with an unusual solution to the fit out of the central production kitchen and Bars. After winning an award for outstanding customer service on the Gold Marquee project for Lancashire County Cricket Club (linked), we advised MFC that this equipment was “for sale”. This helped Morecambe, and simultaneously gave LCCC a return on its original investment, while ensuring the globe arena could be developed, as they required. The globe area is now boasts one of the best conferences and banqueting in Morecambe as well as providing an excellent match day experience  
       
Cadbury World
 cadburys world A new kitchen to cater for a 40% growth in visitor numbers to the UK’s only purpose-built visitor centre dedicated to chocolate is delivering ‘green’ values- with a 30% saving in energy consumption alongside increased production capacity. Winner of the 2011 CEDA Awards, for Sustainability  
       
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
 mima CHR was handed the task of designing and installing a café to suite this fantasic modern arts attraction, working with world- reknowned practice Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects. The building includes five gallery spaces, two project spaces, an education space, a flexible event space, two collection stores, a conservation studio, a café, a shop, an impressive roof terrace with views across Middlesbrough and the North Yorkshire Moors, with purpose built sound space, and a garden. The servery counter and the environment we helped create for the visitors café is one we that reflects the building in its entirety  
       
Knowsley Hall
 knowsley hall At the heart of the Estate and the Stanley family is Knowsley Hall, Merseyside’s only stately home. It is believed that a building of sorts has been on the current Hall’s site since the 12th century, but the earliest part of today’s building dates from about 1500. CHR was hired to sort out the age old kitchen , in this fantasic historic building.  
       
Liverpool St Georges Hall
 st georges hall liverpool St George's Hall is widely regarded as one of the finest neo-classical buildings in the world and is a Grade I listed building. CHR was handed the job to design and install the new production kitchen within this very impressive historic building, and later added the tea-shop to its scope of works.  

Healthcare

NHS & Healthcare

Delivering an appropriate facility whether for a specific ward or serving a whole Trust is one of our strengths, demonstrated by our winning, for example, of a European- wide tender to create a new centralized kitchen serving over 4000 meals a day for one NHS Trust.

NHS & Healthcare

  
Whitehaven NHS
Southport NHS
Lewisham Hospital
Royal Salford Hospital
New Staff Restuarant
Royal Preston Hospital
New staff restaurant and Café Bar
Fulwood Leisure centre
Café Bar
Booths Hall Childrens Hospital
  
Ravenscroft Group
Production Kitchen
Deliving meals on wheels to Lancashire
  
Sure Start
Blackburn
Sure Start
St Helens
Sure Start
Burnley
  
   

Church Community

  
Upton Village Hall
Small Kitchen
New Bar
Bridge Church
Bolton
Small Production
St Hilders Church
Small production Kitchen and Café bar to
support local group/Community
Woodland Nursing Holm
Cumbria
New kitchen to support 50
 

Staff Restaurants / Canteens

Staff Feeding

‘Blue chip’ companies have always understood the need for a quality environment, extending that through to employees. At CHR, we adopt a similar philosophy, so understand our clients’ needs to provide appropriate staff feeding, whether a relaxed bistro, through to a large scale self-serve environment and formal dining room.

BMW Group Plant Oxford
 BMW groupbmw mini
Astra Zeneca Macclesfield
 Astra Zeneca
Premier League Head Quarters London
 F A Premier League
Ipsen Biopharm
 Ipsen Biopharm
TSC Foods - Leeds
 TSC Foods
Coventry Building Society
 coventry building society
Tullip Foods
 Tullip Foods kings Lynn
Orange
Two sites in the North-East		 orange
Next Distribution
 next
Nestle
 nestle
Volkswagen Group
 volkswagon
Sola Glass
 sola glass
Kuehne + Nagel Wellingborough
 Kuehne + Nagel Wellingborough
QVC - Liverpool
 QVC - Liverpool
Bristan - Birmingham
 Bristan - Birmingham
Argos - Corby
 Argos - Corby
Culina Logistics - Stafford
 culina logistics
PZ Cussons - Manchester
 cussons
ICI - Milbank London
ICI - Slough Paints
ICI - Duffield House
 ICI
Logica - London
Logica - Leatherhead
 logica
The Management Centre - London
 The management centre london
PZ Cussons - Manchester
  
Police Headquarters - Manchester
 Police headquarters Manchester
Stagecoach - Manchester
 stagecoach manchester