Arby's adds a breakfast offering while McDonald's considers serving breakfast all day. Dunkin' Donuts expands its lunchtime offerings with a line of flatbread sandwiches, while Starbucks introduces its Vivanno line of smoothies as meal replacements for breakfast, lunch, or even dinner. The days of the rigid three-meals-a-day are over. Now, consumers snack all day long on mini-meals as part of a healthy diet, others are looking for breakfast foods during non-breakfast hours, and more people are staying up late and as a result, getting hungry late. But there's more to it than that.
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Equipment in this category includes induction and gas-fired hot plates, countertop ovens, cooker/warmers and hot wells, warming drawers and holding cabinets, and heated display merchandisers. New hot dog roller grills record the temperature of the grills and the surrounding area. Temperatures are then automatically adjusted to ensure safe food holding. Warming units for fries and similar products now use a combination of radiant and convected heat to extend the holding time of prepared foods. Display cases feature more stylized designs, such as rounded front doors for pizza display. Also available are tables containing hot food wells that automatically add and maintain the correct amount of water.
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Starbucks announced plans to continue selling warm breakfast sandwiches at its stores, but will be tweaking recipes, The Wall Street Journal reported. The plans were announced despite that Howard Schultz, chairman and chief executive officer, said earlier this year he would phase out all sandwiches.
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Lincoln Impinger 3255 conveyor oven suitable for quick production of baked sandwiches, appetizers, pizzas and other items using FastBake air-impingement and continuous-conveyor technologies, which reduces baking time and increases capacity by up to 30 percent. Can bake up to 200 pizzas per hour. Quest EMS™ electronic control system optimizes the gas/air mixture to lower gas usage without compromising heat.
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