Food and Beverage Equipments

a) Receiving equipment: These include receiving platform, weighingscales, trolleys, and so on.

b) Storage equipment: Like racks, shelves, bins, jars, etc. Portable bins for flour, sugar, rice, pulses are more convenient to use and keep clean.

c) Kitchen equipment: This includes all items necessary for thepreparation, cooking, holding and serving of food and washing up.

1. CHAIRS

✓ It is a raised surface used to sit on, commonly for use by oneperson.

✓ It often have the seat raised above floor level, supportedby four legs.

✓ It is the most important for comfort and grace of the restaurant.It also withstands vagaries of visitors.

KINDS of CHAIRS

• STOOL: A chair without a back or arm rests. When raised up a bar stool.

• ARM CHAIR: A chair with arms. And with folding action and inclining footrest, a recliner .

• SEAT or AIRLINE SEAT: A permanently fixed chair in a train or theater.

• SADDLE or BICYCLE SADDLE: a chair or seat when you riding.

• CAR SEAT or INFANT CAR SEAT: it is a seat for an automobile.

• WHEEL CHAIR: a chair with wheels.

• SWING: a chair when hung from above.

• Couch, Sofa, Settee or a Bench: a chair for more than one person.

• Ottoman, Hassock or Pouffe: a separate footrest for a chair.

• Sofas: are recommended on the wall sides for ladies and elderly people for better comfort. One secret reason to use wall side sofa is more people can be squeezed in, particularly children.

2. TABLES

- The term "table" is derived from a merger of French table

- Old English: “tabele”,

- Latin word “tabula”, means "a board, plank, flat top piece".

Definition:

A table is an item of furniture comprising an open, flat surface supported by a base or legs.

Uses: It may be used to hold articles such as food or papers at a convenient or comfortable height when sitting, therefore often used in...