Al Fresco Mediterranean Style Seating

Plastic dining chairs have come a long way in the last few years - don't think grotty yellowing plastic patio chairs but instead al fresco Mediterranean style seating! Contract furniture is suited to hospitality outlets and eateries such as restaurants, pavement cafes and bistros, hotels, canteens and pub diners. The range of plastic dining chairs now available for contract furniture is funky, modern but still robust enough for day to day use in high turnover catering outlets. There is a great range of designer chairs online, which offers a style for every outlet.

Pavement cafes would benefit from some funky seating offering al fresco Mediterranean style seating for diners even in the UK! Encourage more visitors with an attractive and chic dining area for patrons wanting to relax at lunchtime or those looking for a luscious latte just like when on holiday in Italy.

Chairs, which are offered as part of a catering equipment range will be suitable for most dining occasions and will be built to last so offer great value for money for hospitality businesses. The chairs in the commercial furniture range are stackable so they are easy to store if needed, ergonomic so they offer a comfortable place to relax for customers and also UV protected so they won't fade away in the sun.

Difficulty In Finding Glassware That's Unusual

I've been finding it difficult to find glassware that is that bit unusual for chic dining occasions. Glassware for pubs, bars and hospitality outlets tends to be serviceable and rugged rather than stylish. Most glassware under the catering equipment umbrella has to cover a range for beer glasses and wine glasses that are going to be used daily and placed in a glass washer many many times. They have to be of good quality, fairly stylish and possibly even CE marked to meet standards.

Sometimes when you dine,however you want glassware to be up to scratch with something more elegant to befit the dining occasion. Hospitality outlets such as up market bistros and restaurants and cocktail bars often have to have a slightly better class of glassware for diners and guests.

These hi ball style glasses are beautiful in their simplicity. The good news is certain glasses in the range are CE marked and all the glasses are strengthened glass for durability, but they lose nothing in style or looks. So win win for restaurants, bistros and corporate hospitality outlets.

Shake N Bake In Plastic?

My daughter got me started recently on silicone baking trays and moulds.  She invested in some for the home and I thought go for it at least it's not my money you're using!

I've got to admit to being a bit old fashioned and  I looked at this new- fangled bake ware with something akin to wondrous dismay. There's no way I can let these floppy plastic trays into my oven for baking I uttered in horror. Surely they'll melt? I took out my metal and OK slightly rusting cake trays to compare. My daughter after  she picked herself up off the floor from her uncontrollable laughter. It's no laughing matter I think - but you know how impetuous youth is. Anyway my daughter set about showing me this flexible silicone muffin tray in action. She made up the muffin batter and added to the trays then she cooked it at a slightly lower temperature than normal in the oven. We waited the required time with me waiting to smell molten plastic and then duly retrieved the tray. It was still floppy but she'd rested it on a metal baking tray to ease it out of the oven - ahh yes see no modern technological wizardry there then!

The next bit was a modern day wonder as she left the cakes to cool slightly then popped each one out from the plastic mould. I couldn't believe it - such wonders of the modern world. She's since left to go to uni and taken it all with here- traitor! So I've been forced - as any good convert would to buy my own - it's quite addictive I've got to say.....