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Energy Solutions Bi-Annual Customer Care Workshop
The GFEN/NA consortium of the Energy Solutions Center held their bi-annual customer care workshop from August 13 – 15, 2019. The event was held in Minneapolis, MN at CenterPoint Energy’s demonstration kitchen. More than 50 attendees spent 1 1/2 days...
Kitchen Ergonomics
Improving your production and staff efficiency starts with the layout and design of your commercial kitchen. Your kitchen setup affects everything from staff efficiency to utility costs, so you’ll want to take the time to create an effective layout in order for things to operate as smoothly as possible. Utilizing natural gas equipment in your lineup is certain to keep operating costs lower and production at peak performance.
National Chain’s Fryer and Oven Challenge
While at the Piedmont Natural Gas Test Kitchen, we conducted a GFEN test for a national QSR chain headquartered in the southeast. This QSR chain’s signature products are chicken and homemade buttermilk biscuits, which led us to perform fryer and oven tests. In keeping...
New Test Strikes Oil – Why Filtering Fryer Oil is Good for the Bottom Line
The most recent client to conduct an equipment cook test at the Piedmont Natural Gas Cooking Technology Center in Charlotte was a prominent national quick service chain headquartered in the Southeast. Since their primary product is produced by frying, they elected to evaluate their current brand fryer against some of the other popular and well-respected brands available on the market today.
