By now, people know that Serv-U has great prices on thousands of pieces of restaurant equipment, bar supplies, and bar stool. However there are some lesser known and relatively new services that Serv-U offers both local customers as well as services for their national customers.
Roger over at servu-online.com gives us a run down on a couple of these great services in his blog today. You should head over and check it out – http://tinyurl.com/ya98qqs
Hannah over at servu-online.com fills us in on everything your restaurant will need to knock it’s hosted events out of the park. Head over and check it out; get the pary started with a chafer
Hannah over at servu-online.com gives us a run down of the tools you’ll need this holiday season to cook your Turkey to mouth watering perfection. Head over and check it out; get your turkey roasting
Over the weekend I spent some time in Chicago for a mixture of business and pleasure. Part of the pleasure was being able to hit two of my favorite restaurants Carson’s and Lou Malnati’s in the greater Chicago area.
Anyone remember the MASH episode where Hawkeye was trying to move heaven and earth to secure an order of Caron’s ribs, I think I must have been five or six at the time but I still remember that episode to this day. Granted part of the reason that is so ingrained into my head is due to my father dragging me to Carson’s every time we were in the area. Sure you can get good ribs at numerous franchise joints across the country, but nothing holds a candle to Carson’s. Service is always top notch with good portions and competitive pricing.
I had convinced my party that we needed to dine at Carson’s Friday night and raved about their ribs. One of my dinner companions was from New York City and a bit of a foodie herself, so she decided that she would have a full slab after the waiter indicated that a full slab was “about this big”, holding his hands apart roughly ten inches. Snickering to myself I wanted for the fun to start as the waiter brought back the slab of ribs roughly twice the size of his “about this big” and slathered in perhaps the best BBQ sauce I have ever had the pleasure of having. To my diner companion’s credit, she ate a decent amount of the ribs and took the rest back to her hotel for a midnight snack.
After the success of dinner at Carson’s my party looked to me for suggestions on the next night’s dinner selection; I happily obliged with some good old fashion Chicago style pizza from Lou Malnati’s. A quick trip down the L’s brown line and we arrived at our destination, which ironically is just down the street from our previous night’s outing. There are several Lou Malnati’s locations, but the one downtown is my favorite due to the way the dining area is broken up. There are several different sections that are all pretty isolated from each other giving the illusion of an intimate location, good for sharing a meal with good friends.
Our group settled on three large pies for our party of nine, which at the time I thought would be too much. However, after a few drinks and some good conversation our party was able to finish off two of the pies completely with only a couple slices left on the third.
Over at servu-online.com I’ve been writing a series on easy ways to refresh the decor of your restaurant. This morning I just finished the section on table linens and got it live. So far in the series I’ve covered glassware, specialty glassware, china, flatware and now linen.To be honest, I’ve really enjoyed writing the series up to this point and am already planning on revisiting some topics as they can get extremely in-depth and worthy of a conversation all their own. Heck, I think someone could set up an entire blog relating to just flatware (actually I’m quite sure there are all ready a couple good ones out there). It is interesting to me that the things we often over look, like linen, can be so in-depth.
Instead of reposting part five here, I’m just going to link it. Be sure to check it out and let me know what you think.
