PKL launches new website

The new PKL Group website (http://www.pkl.co.uk/), launched on 26th April 2010, provides visitors with fast access to information on the company’s key areas of expertise – including portable kitchens, long or short term equipment hire, system kitchens, event catering equipment, and rapid response kitchens.

For enhanced ease of use, each of these areas is also further sub-divided to enable visitors to quickly drill down to the specific information they require. By making use of the extensive cross-referencing users can also jump to related services such as site surveys, kitchen design, project management, delivery and installation.

Additional features on the site include notifications of special offers, useful tips for contingency planning and access to service and operating manuals for a wide range of catering equipment.

PKL also operates a ‘micro website’ dedicated to school kitchen and catering solutions at http://www.schoolkitchens.com/

Rapid Response Emergency Kitchens from PKL Group

 

Wherever permanent or temporary kitchen facilities are need FAST, PKL’s Rapid Response service is ready to deliver! Whether it’s for military use, disaster relief or a remote industrial project, our temporary kitchens can be delivered anywhere in the world with minimum delay.

Key features:

Field kitchen

Emergency kitchen

Camp kitchen

All specially designed for remote sites with rapid deployment, DROPS compatible and suitable for delivery by helicopter or fixed wing aircraft.

PKL has an unparalleled operational record in provision of field kitchen units to the world’s military, peacekeeping and rescue campaigns.

Our emergency kitchen units are robust, ISO rated container kitchen facilities, designed for durability and continuous operation. With options for on-board service such as electrical generators, water and wastewater storage, and water purification, our emergency kitchen facilities can operate even in areas with damaged or non-existent local services.

PKL Rapid Response provides a range of camp kitchen systems ranging from single camp kitchen modules to large open plan modular kitchens, for a spacious, efficient working environment. We can provide support areas for all our temporary kitchen units, scaling servery areas to your requirements and providing ablution blocks and laundry areas for more complete remote camps.

PKL’s purpose-designed, controlled-environment prefabrication facilities enable all mobile kitchen units to be built off-site and fully tested, with all systems optimised for the environment in which they’ll operate. Once complete they can be transported by land, sea or air anywhere in the world.

We have over 15 years of experience in successfully delivering rapid mobile kitchen units to remote international locations. Our teams have a clear and detailed understanding of the unique requirements of field kitchen, emergency kitchen or camp kitchen deployment, and are able to provide you with the most suitable options for your particular project.

For more information see http://www.pklmobilekitchens.co.uk/ or http://www.pkl.co.uk/

Season's Greetings from PKL

From all of us at PKL we'd like to take the opporutnity to wish you all a relaxing holiday and thank you for for support during the year!

Kitchen Emergency at Christmas? Download our Free Contingency Planning Guide

With Christmas just around the corner, what would you do if faced with the sudden break down of equipment or a disaster that shut your kitchen?

Our Christmas contingency guide can be downloaded for FREE and gives 24-hour contact details for PKL over the Christmas period, emergency temporary kitchen and catering equipment information.

The guide also contains information on extra cold storage facilities and equipment that may ease the pressure on your kitchen over the Christmas period and a contingency check list of considerations to make, if you are faced with a kitchen emergency.

To download our FREE contingency document, click here. Alternatively, if you would like to receive a hard copy version, send an email request to postbox@pkl.co.uk

Portable Kitchens – It’s What We Do!

PKL Group, (Portable Kitchens limited), are market leaders in the supply of portable kitchens for hire. The hire of portable kitchens has been at the very heart of our business for nearly 25 years, and since then we have developed a wide range of solutions to cater for a wide range of needs and end users, which are available to hire from just a few days, to a number of years.

We have a range of portable kitchens, large and small, ready to hire depending on your requirement.

Field Kitchens

Our field kitchen is the smallest in our range of portable kitchens and provides space for 2 members of staff to work comfortably. This kitchen can serve up to 500 meals per session and is popular for hire in care homes and smaller pubs and restaurants.

Mini Kitchens

PKL Mini Kitchens provide space for 2-3 members of staff to work comfortably at one time and are capable of producing up to 1,000 meals per session. These kitchens are typically hired by nursing homes, small hotels, event caterers and smaller schools.

Magnum Kitchens

Magnum Kitchens are the largest stand-alone portable kitchen units in our range, and are capable of supplying over 1,000 meals in one session. Magnum kitchens provide space for up to 5 members of staff to work comfortably at once and are typically hired by hotels, prisons, the armed forces, large scale event caterers, large scale commercial / industrial caterers, education sector.

Triton Kitchens
 

The Triton Kitchen is the most comprehensive in our range of portable kitchens, incorporating ware washing, preparation and food storage and production areas. Our Triton Kitchens allow for up to 10 staff to work together comfortably and can be used to produce over 2,000 meals in one session. Triton Kitchens are typically hire by the MOD, hospitals, large restaurants, large scale commercial / industrial caterers, high volume staff catering and the education sector.

Preparation Kitchens

PKL also supplies a range of preparation and ancillary units that can be linked to our Portable Kitchens including preparation kitchens, dishwash units cold and dry storage units.

Bespoke Facilities to Suit Your Needs

Our Portable Kitchens and preparation units can be linked together to produce a bespoke facility to suit your needs, whatever your size of catering requirement. 

To help provide a starting point, or to offer you a quick and effective solution, we have devised a range of Proven Packages, combinations of our units linked together to provide a number of different kitchen facilities, suitable for serving anywhere from 100 to 1000s of meals per session.

Our kitchens can be equipped from our range of extensive range of over 8,000 items of catering equipment.

PKL at the Olympics - Beijing 2008 Athletes Village Kitchen and Dining

The Beijing Summer Olympics was the largest Olympics ever – and this was also true of the athletes dining facility in the Olympic Village. There were 16,000 athletes and officials from 204 countries, as well as 10,000 staff and guests – all to be fed 24 hours a day. 

Working through the master caterer ARAMARK, PKL were responsible for the design liaison, specification, supply, installation and 24 hour maintenance of all the foodservice equipment and coolroom facilities, in an area, which covered 20,000 sqm or three soccer pitches. 

To ensure a successful delivery, PKL established a project office in Beijing 12 months before the Games began. In addition to permanent PKL management and engineering staff, a team of Chinese project managers, translators and administrators were employed overcome any language, cultural and technical hurdles. All facilities were designed in full compliance to local fire, hygiene and construction standards. 

The key operational factor of this project was the ability of PKL to utilise prefabricated complex Portable Kitchen modules, and ship them worldwide quickly and cost effectively. All the equipment used was from the PKL hire fleet and at the end of the Games was re-hired to other projects.

For more information on our installation at the Athletes Village in Beijing, please click on the link below: http://www.pkl.co.uk/foodservices/portablekitchenhire.asp

PKL Group Gas Safe Accredited

PKL Group and all of our engineers are included on the Gas Safe Register, ensuring that the company works legally and competently within current legislation when installing items of gas powered catering equipment.

The Gas Safe Register deals with all aspects of the downstream gas industry covered by the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 and the Gas Safety (Installation and Use). Regulations 1994 as amended and applied by the Gas Safety (Application) Order 1996 in the Isle of Man.