Wow - New Boar's Head Old World Case and Fresh Mozzarella

The remodel in the deli is complete!
Everyone has asked, "What are you guys doing now!?" Boar's Head created a category for their Old World Delicacies. The Old World items are not your typical deli cuts. With that we acknowledged for people to understand we had to create an area that gives the Old World an identity. Items like Bresaola dry-cured in traditional fashion. The legendary Lomo Embuchado, the Italian version of cooked ham; Prosciutto Cotto and Serrano Ham are a few of the delicacies you will find in the Old World Tower.

In the case right of the tower will be our Fresh Mozzarella station. Of course it's not going to be your normal mozzarella station. We will make fresh mozzarella using traditional methods, but we will add a twist. After searching we concluded that our twist does not exist in retail, foodservice, or restaurants. The mozzarella station opens February 20th, 2009.

In the back right corner of the photo is the spiral slicer. Jungle Jim's deli staff will spiral cut Boar's Head Hams, Turkeys, and Pork. Fantastic items available all year. If your heart desires a flame glazed ham, our staff will custom slice and glaze your ham for you.

Want to see the space in 3D? Understand the Photosynth link only works with Internet Explorer. Click here to see the area.

Have Fun!
Phill

I wish Hobart would make ....

I have a request for Hobart. 

Most of you have heard of Hobart but can't remember why.  Remember going through the cafeteria line in school?  Remember all the stainless equipment behind the lunch lady?  Odds are it was Hobart equipment.   

Hobart Corporation makes a lot of foodservice equipment but they do not make the one item every household should have!  A lot of you have under counter dishwashers in your house.  It takes about an hour to wash the dishes from the day.  I hope you are sitting down... Hobart makes a dishwasher that washes the same load in only 2 minutes!  The LXI Warewasher (Hobart does not call them dishwashers) is the same size as your home version.  It's not as pretty, but it's a workhorse!!

 

We use five under counter LXI machines in the store.  The Deli has one behind the deli service case to wash all of the slicer parts.  By law they have to tear every slicer down, wash and sanitize every four hours.  Since we have 12 slicers that would be expensive to run all the way back to the kitchen.  It saves a lot of steps, allows the staff to stay on the service line and completes its task in two minutes.  The cheese shop, sub shop and Oscar Event Center each have a unit in place.  The Event Center uses it when the large machine is not required.  The Cooking School has one for after class cleanup. 

I wish Hobart made a version for my house!

:)

 

Have Fun!

Phill

 

Skylights

I know the store is a bit overwhelming, but have you looked up lately?  We installed skylights.  The manufacturer refers to them as Daylighters.

What a difference.  The colors in the store jumped to life!  Prior to the skylights, the rooms had a metallic feel with a cast of gray.  

The install for 40 something skylights was neat to watch, time consuming, loud, and took a long time.  The weather wouldn’t cooperate.  Every night we would schedule an install, it would rain or snow. 

 

The simple process to add skylights on our store:  

1.  Create a drawing to maximize the light.  We choose the checkerboard layout.

2.  Inspect the layout from the floor of the store to see if the drawing makes sense.  We have a lot of "stuff" hanging from our ceiling.  Several were moved to fit.

3.  The roofing company worked the roof.  They would layout the skylight openings on the roof, cut out the membrane and insulation.  At that point they would run the Milwaukee circular saw through the steel roof.  If you like tools, you will love this saw!  It cuts through metal like its butter!  It was really cool.  :)

4.  Install the curb (basically a metal box with no top or bottom.  It had a lip to screw to the roof.

5.  Install the skylight on the curb. 

6.  Insulate and clean up all the vinyl membranes for the roof and move to the next skylight.

7.  Each skylight took required about 2 hours.

 

Our skylights were installed to be supplemental lighting only.  At some point we may connect some of the lights to sensors that will turn them on and off.  I'm sure some of you will get excited and send emails demanding we install the computers to control the lights with the skylights.  Stay Calm...  we did install new lights when we put the skylights in.  Our kilowatt consumption has dropped significantly.  Controlling the lights is nice but we can do more inside the store to drop our energy consumption.  The light control project is a lower priority.  Some day... 

 

Have Fun!

Phill