Any idea where I can buy commercial catering equipment?

Dalas

I was hoping someone could suggest where I can buy some catering equipmet like fridges, pots etc. I have gone to a few companies and they are really expensive (I only found one irish company, the rest were from the UK). I have also had a look at ebay and the likes and while they arent bad prices the delivery is pretty hefty. Does anyone know of an Irish company or site that sell second hand or an aution that I could look into? (apart from buy and sell and here!)

antoinolachtnai

are you being realistic? Catering equipment is pretty expensive. You are looking at a lot of money to fit out a commercial kitchen.

If you aren't familiar with the catering industry, you would do well to get expert advice before you buy anything. There are a lot of health rules and practical ergonomic issues to consider.

Dalas

antoinolachtnai wrote:

are you being realistic? Catering equipment is pretty expensive. You are looking at a lot of money to fit out a commercial kitchen.

If you aren't familiar with the catering industry, you would do well to get expert advice before you buy anything. There are a lot of health rules and practical ergonomic issues to consider.

I was hoping to get advice before starting up anyway but I wanted to get a rough estimate of cost before starting anything. Thanks for the help anyway. Much appreciated.

vector

Find the local curse rental unit, there is one in every town, you know the place, a new business opens, and closes there evey 2 months.

wait until a food one opens up and then buy their equipment for a knock down price before they close

smashey

There is a magazine called Caterer & Hotelkeeper. (Hope it is still published) If you can get a copy of it, they have a section for second ahnd and re-conditioned equipment.

antoinolachtnai

Did you check http://www.cateringequipment.ie/ ? First thing I saw in Google. Also, the golden pages. Some of these places do a catalog. The name of the big operator escapes me now.

From what I hear you are looking at anything from 20 grand up to 150 grand to do a catering kitchen. Depends what sort of food you want to do of course. And it depends what's in the building already.

drdre

dalas please pm me ur details eg what you require etc and i know people who might be able to help as my da is in the restaurant business.may i ask what you are opening is it a restaurant
thanks

dvdfan

www.nesbits.ie

Not second hand but a massive selection of catering stuff, at least it will give you an idea of what the prices are new when comparing them to second hand ones. Also surely there is a local trader in your area that deals with catering equipment, is it a small town?? Also if you can get references most of these traders will set up hire purchase agreements if you cant afford everything all at once, wheter thats a good idea long term is another issue. Good luck

RichardRobbins

I need to install or rent a commercial kitchen. Dosen't seem to be any to rent how huch would installing one cost.

I also need to cook food that may need to be microwaved, do I need a special oven for this?

khurram

Hi,

I am in catering business and have bought good stuff from www.pizzadirect.co.uk do let me know if you order from them i might be able to get you some discount.

If you are looking for second hand equipment call on 0863533940, will get good second hand stuff.

khurram

YellowSheep

Just be careful that you compare like for like. There are 700, 800 & 900 ranges. Also the stainless steel quality is an issue. Cheap stainless steel will actually corrode of the years. Also cheap equipment is an issue too, specially when it comes fixing it.

I did a couple of kitchens big and small and have good relationships with a couple of the supplier. If you need some more help PM me. Cheers Oliver

DubTony

LIQUIDATORS.

If they aren't liquidating a place atm, you can be damned sure they know someone who is. Or try the leasing sections of the main banks. I believe they're using repossessed fridges as desks these days.

YellowSheep

RichardRobbins wrote: »

I need to install or rent a commercial kitchen. Dosen't seem to be any to rent how huch would installing one cost.

I also need to cook food that may need to be microwaved, do I need a special oven for this?

How can you even contemplating to install or rent a commercial kitchen if you don't know what oven you need to produce microwaved food. Wow.

jimbo 22

Hi

Send a pm listing equipment thast you require - i may be able to help you with New or second hand equip


Cheeers


James

dshakey

www.catercut.ie

Niall_G

Equip in Carlow - huge range of second hand. Used them a few years ago & found them to be excellent.

finisklin

Best bet is to go to the UK if your getting more than 5 items....it will rpobably pay. Check out the following http://www.clarke-fussells.co.uk/. They are more large commercial, food processing equipment but still may have something of interest.

Best of luck with it....

frenchtoast

I heard these guys are good http://www.katerbay.com/

don't know how competitive irish companies are with ones in UK?

tpraja

The best place to buy commercial catering equipment is IFM Vic. The famous catering equipment suppliers in Melbourne

finisklin

tpraja wrote: »

The best place to buy commercial catering equipment is IFM Vic. The famous catering equipment suppliers in Melbourne

The shipping might be a tad expensive getting it back....though if it is fairly large, heavy duty stuff may be worth it?;)

Budget Marketing

Hi,

To be honest from reading your original post, to me it seems that you are in the elementary or concept stages of this business. All i can say in regards of equiptment is to be very carefull when starting a new business (especially in a field/industry which you are not very familiar with) not to purchase large amounts of costly equiptment only to find that your business is unviable and you have all of this shiny but useless equiptment lying around. Perhaps in order to minimise risk and reduce financial outlay you should rent your equiptment until you know your business is profitable. I am sure that in this economic climate there is plenty of catering Equiptment hanging around out there.

Only recently we purchased some serious printing equiptment, if you do decide to purchase your equiptment drop me a PM and i can advise how we went about the purchase. (We imported a heidlberg offset press from Germany)

Rob

antoinolachtnai

You bought an offset press? You are a braver man than me is all I can say.

Budget Marketing

antoinolachtnai wrote: »

You bought an offset press? You are a braver man than me is all I can say.

Hi antoin,

The printing industry is rough at the moment no doubt about it , mind you with european competition the Irish print industry will continue to have it tough (only have to look @ futureprint in baldoyle), but in our business, we are marketing experts whom put together campaigns from idea to design to print to campaign deliverance. So printing is only one of our services or fortes. At the end of the day we can offer subsidised print to our clients on the basis that we are also providing them with graphics and campaign deliverance services. Its an exciting time - both good and bad:)

Rob

wellboy76

finisklin wrote: »

Best bet is to go to the UK if your getting more than 5 items....it will rpobably pay. Check out the following http://www.clarke-fussells.co.uk/. They are more large commercial, food processing equipment but still may have something of interest.

Best of luck with it....

There are plenty of catering companies based here in Ireland and it just purely angers me when an ill informed "best bet" is to go to the UK. What about warranties afterward? We out of absolute desperation, had to get a fridge from one of these crowds last summer for a school. Within 2 months the thing was written off due to warranty issues and we were, I quote told to go "On yer bike Paddy!" (Had the last laugh as the company in question folded last week!):p

On the web, there are a few companies claiming to be from Ireland when they are in the UK for example, there is one crowd with an irish flag in the corner but are obviously in The north east of England! A few others have been mentioned in this thread which are also UK based.

Times are hard enough in this recession until someones is advising you to send your business out of the country. I work for one of the companies mentioned early in this thread www.cateringequipment.ie and generally if we get a written quote back that betters ours with the same trading terms we always do our best to match it. And we only deal direct with our main suppliers - Blue Seal, Rational, Marco, Fagor, Mastro, True, Emainox etc. so no middle men which hopefully keeps the cost down.

And luckily I dont take any commission as it is a family business and has been for 30 years and if people keep it in the country hopefully we will be here for the next 30.

dvdfan

I can understand what your saying but the reality is if i can save a couple of hundred by buying elsewhere then it makes business sense especially with the recession.

Thats a good point about warranties and one not to take lightly, we had a problem with an expensive gas oil heater and it cost 150 just for the callout from and 100 an hour to fix it so it can cost a buck, of course there not likely to have too many issues when they are new but yes i agree your taking a big chance if you get unlucky enough to have problems. This was with something that went out of warranty though not something bought abroad.

I had to source a bunch of stuff for a shop about 2 years ago and made a significant saving using UK & US companies, Irish companies simply were much more expensive, i regularly use both komplett and dabs as theyre also much cheaper for example i bought memory from dabs for 180 inc delivery from UK, it was the wrong memory and i had to send it back, my local store didnt have it and i needed it that weekend so i drove to PC world (probably english too) and for the same memory it cost 280, now my local store click.ie were also a similar price, Maplin across the road in galway were also 280 so it makes sense to buy wheres cheapest if possible.

In general i agree with everything your saying but everything is so expensive here people are being forced to buy elsewhere. If there was a store with competitive prices people wouldnt go and pay the extra shipping fees.

Im sure cateringequipment are competitive in price though just pointing out the reasons why people use UK companies, its usually not personal just business.

wellboy76

You'd be surprised how much teething problems you can get with new gear even. But how can a "local" company be considered more expensive when they arent given the opportunity to quote in the first place.

Catering Equipment manufacturers value the equipment they make and is why they value the experience and service companies like ours can give. That is why some of them will not honour any warranty on imported equipment. If you contact them directly in the UK they will re-direct you to us. And it is only fair.

And I can only speak for our company, we try to be as competitive as possible. If that means selling without warranty to match terms on a quote then so be it.

Rarely do this nor do I recommend it mind you!

dvdfan

Well its good to see you being competitive, im not in the catering business any longer but at least it seems there is a decent Irish provider available, like i said i would gladly choose Irish over UK if the price was around the same or give or take a hundred or two if you take the warranty issue into consideration.

Most of my recent experience is in PC equipment and hopefully an Irish company will follow suit in the tech industry, i actually thought dabs were Irish until recently as they have dabs.ie as the website but they actually ship from UK to Ireland under dabs.ie name.

Anyway good luck with the business

wellboy76

Thanks mate, if we could get paid now then we can all go to the bahamas!!!

Dont let a .ie address fool you, dont know how some uk companies get around this one.

Bandara

don't buy anything new, there is loads of second hand stuff available from bust companies out there.