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FAGOR INDUSTRIAL FITS KITCHEN IN THE
HOTEL GOLF ALMERIMAR IN ALMERIA
ALMERIA, SPAIN
A hotel with 112 rooms, a spa or a wellness
centre where guests can enjoy a
massage, and a hairdresser’s or beauty
saloon already has good reason to attract
visitors. But equally important is
the quality of the cuisine. This starts
with a good kitchen equipped with
the latest technology, such as that installed
by Fagor Industrial in the Hotel
Golf Almerimar in Almería. The kitchen
is more than 300 square metres in area
and serves the buffet restaurant, the
international bistro and the Casa Club
de Golf restaurant, with a menu based
on Mediterranean cuisine and seasonal
products.
The hotel kitchens were fitted out from
scratch. “This was previously a four-star hotel,
but it has been completed remodelled,
all of the former hotel has been demolished
and a five-star hotel has been constructed
on the site of the former hotel”, recalls Miguel
Tamura, director general of the Hotel Golf
Almerimar. As a result since 1 December
2012 the resort has had an “avant-garde
kitchen equipped with the latest instruments
to facilitate the cooking for the three different
restaurant areas”, continues the director.
The project managers were Tecnisur Hostelería,
who fitted out the 300 square metre
kitchen with the latest technology from
Fagor Industrial. “We installed everything”,
recalls Josetxo, manager at Tecnisur. “From
chimneys, extractor hoods, cookers, cold
chambers and stainless steel equipment to
chill blasters, hotplate benches wash sta-
tions, sinks, shelving and auxiliary machinery,
including packing and slicing machines”.
The hotel’s Lobby Bar was also completely
fitted out with a fridge, extractor hoods and
dishwasher.
Josetxo, in charge of distribution for Fagor
in Vitoria before transferring to Almería, is
considered as a “lifelong” faithful distributor
of the brand. This is why he knows what he
is doing. While the kitchen, which supplies
the three restaurants in the hotel, was being
built, Tecnisur acted as consultants and
recommended improvements. “They even
met the kitchen management to find out their
needs first-hand”, recalls Tamura. This enabled
them to establish the need for a salad
station, a cold room, a robot coupé (stateof-the-art
slicing machine) and an electric
salamander oven to give the final touch to
dishes.
“The kitchen
planned by Fagor
Industrial is very
well-designed,
and is open, clean
and tidy” says the
director general of
the hotel.
One of the features of the Hotel Golf
Almerimar are the lounges, with a capacity
of up to 400 people. Therefore, the kitchen
staff need systems that allow them to optimise
the preparation of menus in large quantities,
for example for wedding banquets.
Therefore, “the kitchen was fitted with high
technology ovens that perfectly complement
the cold systems. We also provided
eight trolleys with a capacity of 110 plates”,
explains Josetxo. This means that, “with 15
people working in the kitchen it is possible to
serve up to 500 meals at the same time in
buffet and banquet mode”.
This, combined with the show cooking and
self-supporting islands make the Fagor Industrial
installation an example of a job welldone.
In short, the director general highlights,
this is a five-star installation which is
”very well designed, open, clean and tidy”
as the only hotel of its category built in Andalucia
in 2012, and which was opened on
1 December after two years of renovations.
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