Canteen Dishwashers

Canteens are traditionally the most traveled catering establishments, as they can be eaten quickly, tasty and inexpensively. The staff of the dining room should also work quickly and efficiently, not to mention the equipment. There are also special requirements for the dining room dishwasher, not like the appliances in the bar or restaurant. You need to choose such a dishwasher very carefully, here we will help you do this by presenting this review.

What criteria to choose

From a professional point of view, canteens differ from each other, primarily through patency. There are canteens in small firms for staff only. They prepare a small number of servings, most often according to pre-assembled orders, for no more than 50 people. Such canteens are quite costly with a household dishwasher, and we will not talk about them today.

Dining rooms that offer visitors from 100 servings in one meal require a professional dishwasher, since it’s difficult to wash 100 plates, 100 mugs, 200 spoons and forks by hand, but you still need to prepare the products for the next meal.

1. For establishments that serve from 100 to 300 servings in one meal, frontal industrial dishwashers with small and medium capacity are suitable.
2. If 400 to 2500 servings are prepared in the dining room for lunch or another afternoon meal, then they will already need a domed or tunnel dishwasher, with at least an average productivity of 40-50 baskets per hour. Such canteens are found in large institutions and in manufacturing companies.
3. Well, if the institution serves a huge number of visitors, serving 3,000 or more servings for a meal, he needs a productive tunnel-type dishwasher that washes 80-100 baskets per hour.

The largest canteens are usually at large city-forming enterprises, the production complexes of which are located outside the city. For workers, the only place where they can take food is the dining room, so there is no end to visitors.

It is very important that the canteen workers can wash all the dirty dishes in one load so as not to waste time. If the performance of the machine is not enough, then the equipment and people who will spend a lot of extra time in order to wash everything will be overloaded. But you need to prepare for the next meal. In a large dining room, the cooking process is almost a conveyor belt that runs almost continuously. Delays due to insufficient performance of a particular equipment are unacceptable.

In addition to the fact that the equipment must be productive, it must also be reliable. If the dishwasher breaks down at the height of the working day, the dining room will be paralyzed, since it’s unrealistic to wash thousands of plates manually. You also need to think about the machine spending less water and detergents. Any, but still saving, it’s very important that she copes well with her main function - washing dishes.

Next, we will present to your court an overview of the dishwashers, which was prepared with the participation of specialists in the repair of professional dishwashing equipment and employees of two large dining rooms. They gave a number of tips and helped to select four models of technology, which, in their opinion, is slightly better than the rest. If you are interested in information aboutprofessional and industrial dishwashers in general, read the article of the same name previously published on our website.

AVAT MPT-1700

This tunnel dishwasher has a very high capacity of up to 95 baskets per hour. Considering that 18 standard dishes are included in one basket, it turns out that this machine can wash 1710 dishes in 1 hour. Ideal for large dining rooms.In this machine, baskets full of dishes move along the conveyor from left to right, entering the washing compartment, and then into the rinsing and drying compartments. At the exit, the workers of the dining room receive clean and dry plates.

In addition to plates, this machine perfectly launders cutlery, glasses and some non-standard dishes. The machine is not intended for washing pots, large pans, baking trays and other things.

1. The technique is made in Russia.
2. It is connected to hot water supply.
3. It has dispensers for detergent and rinse aid.
4. Designed for cassettes 500x500 mm.
5. The largest plates allowed for loading are 400 mm.
6. The washing boiler holds up to 100 liters of hot water.
7. The rinse boiler holds 17 liters of water.
8. The washing bath is equipped with several filters.

AVAT MPT-1700 is standardly equipped with only four cassettes for plates and two cassettes for glasses and cups, so the estimated cost should include the purchase of additional cassettes. Cassettes must contain all the plates and glasses available in the dining room, so it is easy to calculate their required number. The current price of the model is 5614 dollars.

GASTRORAG HDW-80

And this is a dome type dishwasher. Her productivity is slightly less - 50 baskets per hour. This means that the equipment can wash 900 small plates in just 1 hour. The machine operates as follows. The canteen worker places the cassette under the dome, closes it, and the entire washing process takes place automatically. A man only needs to have time to change the tapes. Perhaps the washing process is not so convenient as in a tunnel type machine, but still.

1. The machine is made in China, but, despite this, the quality of its assembly and materials is very high.
2. Containers for detergents and rinse aid are available.
3. There is a function for washing trays.
4. Accepts cartridges of 50х50 cm.
5. The largest plates allowed for loading are 42 cm.

Only 2 cassettes and one cutlery basket are included in the basic package, so you need to take care of purchasing additional accessories. The average cost of the GASTRORAG HDW-80 is $ 2,300.

SMEG PROFESSIONAL UD503D

The front-loading dishwasher SMEG PROFESSIONAL UD503D is ideal for relatively small dining rooms. This technique is very popular and is often used in European hotels, bars, restaurants, etc. This is a good professional dishwasher for the school cafeteria, which will last several decades until it is completely morally obsolete. Despite the modest dimensions of the case, the machine can wash up to 40 cassettes per hour. And this is as many as 720 small plates for one hour only - impressive.

Frontal cassettes are used with standard 500x500 mm.

The equipment is fully assembled in Italy. This is not some kind of contracted Chinese assembly; the dishwasher is “clean” Italian. It is equipped with a pump for pumping waste water, dispensers for rinse aid and liquid detergent. In addition, the machine has as many as three washing programs, which is very good for professional equipment. Needless to say, the machine copes with its task by 120%, so that even the most persistent dirt will be washed off dishes and cutlery without mercy.

In the line of dishwashers there are models with a capacity of 24 and 15 cassettes, so if the dining room is very small, you can take a less powerful machine, it will be cheaper. The cost of the model we described is $ 1910.

APACH AF500

Another Italian with the same performance of 40 cassettes, but with a much lower cost. Today, this model can be ordered for $ 1,520. The machine can be connected to hot water and loaded with plates with a maximum height of 345 mm. The technique is distinguished by a seamless washing chamber and a body made entirely of stainless steel. There is a rinse aid dispenser, but there is no detergent dispenser, which is not a significant drawback.

APACH AF500 has special thermally insulated walls that do not allow water to cool and help to improve the quality of washing. The machine is equipped with a basket for plates, a basket for glasses and a special insert for cutlery.

Well, we fulfilled our task, presented to your court an overview of the best dishwashers for dining rooms with a different number of visitors. Now you just have to choose the right machine, having preliminarily calculated everything, ordered it and paid for the order. How you will do this, which company you will contact, in essence, we are not interested in. The main thing is that the machine is worthy of your institution, it works well and for a long time. Good luck