Award-winning celebrity chef and owner of Giraffe restaurant at the Viaduct in Auckland, Simon Gault knows how to please people when they visit his restaurant. For him, it’s about diners enjoying great food in a relaxed environment and it’s all eyes on the kitchen, right down to grills, pots and pans.
“With open kitchens now, the kitchen is a stage and everybody’s watching,” says Simon. “So it’s important every piece of equipment looks as new as possible and Powertank achieves that. I wouldn’t have a kitchen without one now.”
Available in five sizes, Powertank resembles a water bath and offers two options of non-caustic, bio-degradable cleaning agents to remove carbon build up on all stainless steel trays, grills and cooking equipment. Simply immerse, leave from half an hour, to overnight, and everything comes out like new.
The team at Giraffe have their equipment on a Powertank roster, so everything’s cleaned perfectly as required. The super-effective, safe technology also includes a lid-locking system and user-friendly load baskets which cope with even the heaviest pieces.
Simon has used Powertank for nearly 10 years now, as executive chef for the Nourish Group and since opening Giraffe two years ago. It’s super easy to use, he says, “You park it in the kitchen or out the back and let it work its magic. The word I use to describe it is, genius.”
Sustainability is a business survival strategy these days and Powertank saves on labour, power and water usage. It liberates staff from hours of scrubbing, provides significant energy and water saving efficiencies and asked about competing brands, Simon comments, “I don’t think there are any.”
Start how you mean to finish, he says. “If you look after every piece of equipment, your team will use things with more care. Not only does your kitchen look great, it keeps replacement costs down too.”
For further proof that Powertank is a wise investment, it’s even great for morale. “When the team enters the kitchen and everything is clean and gleaming that does great things for their state of mind and as a result, the standard of food we serve to our guests.
“And there’s another thing,” according to Simon. “All my BBQ grates and grills at home look fantastic. Every so often I bring them into Giraffe, place them in the tank and out they come, looking brand spanking. Every BBQ fanatic knows how good that feels.”
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