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What do you prefer buying at restaurant supply stores?

Just canvassing input on what you all choose to buy at restaurant supply stores. 

Any niche items that are a particularly good deal or unavailable elsewhere?

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  • Kitchen tongs, 1/2 & 1/4 sheet pans, precut parchment for those pans, glassware (everyday wine glasses, they don't match but are all good quality with thin rims and cheap), whisks, paring knives, spider and other serving spoons, forks, etc. 
    Firing up my XL Big Green Egg, KJ Jr. or Weber gasser in Salt Lake City
  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 11,974
    Do you have Nella?
    This is pre covid though, haven’t been there since…
    1) Same price for any sized sheet pans, 1/4 1/2 3/4(or 2/3?), full, $7.99 IIRC
    2) Commercial kitchen knives retired from their knife sharpening service and resharpened, chef $5, boning $2 or 2.50.


    canuckland
  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 20,217
    I only buy my Restaurants from Restaurant Supply stores.  I don't buy them any where else.

    Maybe your purpose in life is only to serve as an example for others? - LPL


  • northGAcock
    northGAcock Posts: 15,171
    One of my best purchases was a stainless bar blender. That that thing in home use has withstood many years of use. 
    Ellijay GA with a Medium & MiniMax

    Well, I married me a wife, she's been trouble all my life,
    Run me out in the cold rain and snow
  • I recently purchased a Waffle House.  Does that count?
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
  • paqman
    paqman Posts: 4,756
    cambro containers
    vollrath tongs
    1/2 and 1/4 vollrath/wear-ever aluminum sheet pans
    commercial plastic glasses (diner style)

    ____________________
    Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage. •Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Pizza screens.  I use them on my eggs to cook small items that have a tendency to fall through the cooking grid.  Shrimp, breakfast sausages, pumpkin seeds, etc.  And, of course, pizza.
  • Do you have Nella?
    This is pre covid though, haven’t been there since…
    1) Same price for any sized sheet pans, 1/4 1/2 3/4(or 2/3?), full, $7.99 IIRC
    2) Commercial kitchen knives retired from their knife sharpening service and resharpened, chef $5, boning $2 or 2.50.


    If you slice salmon, you get salmonella. 

    😊
  • HeavyG
    HeavyG Posts: 10,380
    cough...cough...
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Diçk




  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 11,974
    HeavyG said:
    cough...cough...
    Wrong audio ^^^

    https://youtu.be/92nYmrxHTpc?feature=shared
    canuckland
  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 25,976
    If you have a GFS (Gordon Food Service) in your area there is no membership, but they carry much of the same merchandise. One thing that comes to mind is their delicious Tavern Cheese. It is a garlic enhanced cheese spread for crackers - but I warn you it is difficult to stop eating it once started!
  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 20,217
    Do you have Nella?
    This is pre covid though, haven’t been there since…
    1) Same price for any sized sheet pans, 1/4 1/2 3/4(or 2/3?), full, $7.99 IIRC
    2) Commercial kitchen knives retired from their knife sharpening service and resharpened, chef $5, boning $2 or 2.50.


    If you slice salmon, you get salmonella. 

    😊
    Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we have.

    Maybe your purpose in life is only to serve as an example for others? - LPL


  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 11,974
    Do you have Nella?
    This is pre covid though, haven’t been there since…
    1) Same price for any sized sheet pans, 1/4 1/2 3/4(or 2/3?), full, $7.99 IIRC
    2) Commercial kitchen knives retired from their knife sharpening service and resharpened, chef $5, boning $2 or 2.50.


    If you slice salmon, you get salmonella. 

    😊
    Disagree  :o
    https://www.weau.com/2023/11/24/2-dead-dozens-hospitalized-salmonella-outbreak-linked-cantaloupes-32-states/
    canuckland
  • kl8ton
    kl8ton Posts: 5,623
    RRP said:
    If you have a GFS (Gordon Food Service) in your area there is no membership, but they carry much of the same merchandise. One thing that comes to mind is their delicious Tavern Cheese. It is a garlic enhanced cheese spread for crackers - but I warn you it is difficult to stop eating it once started!
    I purchased aluminum foil from GFS once. Really thin stuff. I had it more than 10 years over a few moves. The box was getting grungy but it was still dispensing!
    Large, Medium, MiniMax, 36" Blackstone
    Grand Rapids MI