Photography: Total Food Service

Equipment specified by Singer M. Tucker

Specifying team: Mark Mansfield, Marc Fuchs

New York never sleeps, and it certainly never dies.

When the city shutdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic, its citizens were easily disheartened.

But Liz Neumark, President & CEO of Great Performances (GP), didn’t lose faith. When the rest of New York was on its knees, Neumark stood tall, and ran fast. With Christopher Harkness, Director of Food & Beverage for GP by her side, Neumark enlisted Singer M. Tucker’s team of foodservice equipment experts to build out a brand new 51,000 square foot culinary facility in The Bronx.

"As you can imagine this is both scary and incredibly exciting. We are absolutely thrilled by the many possibilities that our new space affords us,” Neumark tells Total Food Service. “When we were assembling our line and picking out our pieces of equipment, we went for the best available so that we can provide the best service to our customer. With this new top of the line and state of the art kitchen we can temperature control our food, maximize our efficiency and flow. All done in an environment that best suits our employees. In our new headquarters we can receive our shipments and transfer them immediately into coolers that allow for the preserved integrity of the food."

To turn this catering concept into a reality, Great Performances assembled their wish list. Marc Fuchs and Mark Mansfield delivered.

"We were able to work with Victory and American Panel who gave us the flexibility to take product right off the expanded cooking line and move it through a blast chiller and then to a walk-in for holding," says Fuchs.

When you’re catering, you need a lot of ice. The ice installation at at this facility was designed to mirror a convenience store’s, with Follet ice equipment.

Equally important to keeping food cold in catering, of course, is getting food hot—and fast. For this, our team enlisted Rational’s combi-oven technology and Jade Range’s thermal oven bases to the line. Blodgett Cook & Hold DFG-100DBL stackable ovens play a crucial part of this cooking line as well.

"This project was a classic example of was one of our team’s greatest strengths; the ability to understand our customer’s mission and to execute it with constant communication throughout the process so that everybody's goals are met," says Fuchs.

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Article adapted from Total Food Service. Read the full story here.