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Advantages & Disadvantages of Used Restaurant Equipment

So you’ve got your location and are ready to stock your restaurant with all of the restaurant equipment. You’ve been considering buying used, but are a little wary.

Sure there are certain advantages versus disadvantages of buying used restaurant equipment.  Minimize those disadvantages by shopping at One Fat Frog’s Orlando or Sanford FL located for great deals on used restaurant equipment.  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment has experience selling used restaurant equipment, we have a full team who specialize in cleaning, painting and repair.  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment has drivers and delivery teams and free delivery through many places in the state.  See store for details on this and warranty on certain pieces.

Sure there are pros and cons to buying new versus used restaurant equipment but the final savings can really outweigh the disadvantages of purchasing used restaurant equipment IF you buy at the right dealer.  Come meet us at the Frog, get to know us and if you like us then stay a while.  Become one of our regulars who refers their friends.

You know we’re good people when a lot of our business is referral!

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

Things You’ll Need for a Restaurant Startup

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment specializes in helping startup restaurants open their doors and keep them open.

What are the things you will need for your restaurant startup?

So startup restaurants come in all the time to One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment because we have everything you will need under one roof, plus we have knowledgeable and honest sales staff.

here’s a brief list of items you’ll need:

  1. 3 compartment sink
  2. handwash sink
  3. stainless table
  4. refrigerator
  5. freezer
  6. slicer
  7. mixer
  8. ice machine
  9. smallwares
  10. hood
  11. convection oven
  12. griddle or charbroiler
  13. fryer

Obviously depending on the type of food you are making  at your restaurant it may vary somewhat.  Also know that if you’re opening in Altamonte Springs, Missoula or Washington DC there may be different codes involved in what you need for hood or ventilation system.  Please note, we encourage you to talk directly to your inspector and fire chief in Altamonte Springs, Melbourne or Lake Mary.

And if you’re looking for great deals on a variety of used restaurant equipment, please do shop at One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment- Sanford or Orlando- two locations to better serve you.

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail •

Second Chance Financing? In-House Financing of Used Restaurant Equipment? Repair Your Bad Credit

Call me for Easy Restaurant Equipment Finance 407-480-3409

No matter what condition your credit is in, One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment wants to help you out! Call it second chance financing, if you want. Repair your bad credit at Orlando’s One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment.  So many of our restaurants, bars, delis and bakeshops have been hit by recession and our startup restaurants also have poor to middling credit.   Maybe you’ve just had tough times and you have bad credit?  Well don’t worry about in house financing or finding a loan shark, One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment offers credit rebuilding options that report to the credit bureau and will help you rebuild your credit.

This means that you as a new or existing restaurant owner can rebuild your bad or poor credit starting today!  Let one of our finance managers work with you to rebuild your credit and in the meantime get you the equipment you need to open your restaurant or keep your doors open.  Whether it plugs in electric or gas, let Orlando’s One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment take care of your credit needs in new or used restaurant equipment.  Orlando’s Mega Warehouse One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment offers extensive and ever-changing inventory.  We also offer free delivery, technician tested equipment and just good quality equipment.

So, if you are looking and financing and creative leasing options that really don’t ring honest to you, give One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment a call and let us work with you to finance your dream restaurant on good or poor credit.  No problem!  We really work hard for you! For more information on the One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment financing plan, go here: http://onefatfrog.com/financing.htm

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

New T-shirt designs came in for warehouse team

New T-shirts came in for our warehouse staff.  They’re quite wonderful if I say so myself.  And they’re all based on our inside jokes.  I’ll take pictures and show you tomorrow.  I know you’ll love them and I hope you laugh when you see them. 

Come on in to the Frog tomorrow and check them out!  We’d love to make you laugh!  And… it’s Friday, too… so you can’t go wrong on so many levels!

Welcome Uganda, Pakistan and India

Welcome clients from Uganda, Pakistan, and India- we’d love to help you export restaurant equipment and thank you for your business today.  Always fun to get orders and business from different places!

Children’s Meals

We had a great little children’s meal idea on our One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment facebook page last month.  It basically was spaghetti strung through little chunks of hotdogs.  For me as a parent a big part of the food experience at a restaurant is catering to the under ten crowd in our house.  Literally adults are outnumbered by under tens and let’s say for being the smallest they sure have a loud voice in picking our food for the evening.  Here’s a few pictures of some food ideas… I hope you’ll think about making a food menu and experience for the little ones outside of the norm.  And when you need restaurant equipment come on in to One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment- we deliver many places in the state of Florida for free.

Image  Vagetables and eggs… yum! 

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Tomatoes have personality

ImageThese plates make a GREAT base for your children’s menu… plating can be an integral part of the experience for children, too! 

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signature desserts can be great- make your own popsicles or candy lollipops and and be remembered!  Make our kids meals cheap and we don’t check the price for adult meals!

Image  Can’t go wrong with boiled eggs… how about themed centerpieces that change out!  these can really add a flair to your restaurant…

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Taking themes from pop culture can help draw in … little kids love Elmo, Dora, and super heroes… even something as simple as balloons or a costumed character that tours the restaurant hourly?  Buy the costume once and advertise it!  Stand on the corner when school gets out and invite folks to your restaurant.  You can’t go wrong- this is advertising and will also draw in customers.  Our family goes to Eat at Joe’s simply because of the playground and … well let’s be honest I can have a shark bite while the kids play on the slide.  I don’t know another playground with that sort of parent upgrade!

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have a great day

saw this guy going home from work the other day… he’s here now to tell you hi

Favorite Food

Here’s some pictures of some of my favorite food from clients of late.  Just places I’ve taken pictures of lately.  Sadly I’m no too great at taking pictures but I’m good at eating.  First few are of the Korean BBQ Taco Box Food Truck, next one is from an Eggplant Parm from Fama’s near Seaworld.

Feeling welcome…

Charles Eames was big on having a host.  We are the same at the Frog and hopefully you are the same at your food service establishment.  This is the crux of the different between big box stores and the Frog.  The difference in feeling between a wal-mart and an indy store.  The one-on-one human contact.  We’ll always answer our own phones, we’re never going to be super starchy… that’s not us.  We’re human, we put our pants on one leg at a time and we wear normal clothes because we’re doing normal things.  And the host, the host at your restaurant should be the human face of your restaurant.  This is the person who greets for your restaurant and sets the ambiance or stage of the experience.  Exactly what experience does your host or hostess give?  Do you realize how important they areto your experience?

Don’t compromise who you are- when you have the right staff behind you or in front of you your business breathes, oozes who you are.  The experience begins before the food.  What experience are you giving?

 

do you manipulate

Do you manipulate an object or an idea? When you’re talking about restaurants and applying this Eames era thought… do you manipulate one dish and make it yours or is the entire restaurant (ie- idea) a reflection of your greater vision. This is what we should strive for the latter… it is not something that happens at startup it’s an evolution per se. think about it…

hotline equipment in today at the Frog

This may or may not be a full inventory of what’s in today… new employee still learning equipment, but it’s a bare minimum list of what we have in stock used TODAY.  Know that we also sell NEW hotline equipment!

  • 4 range
  • combo( 6 burner,oven.griddle)
  • combo(4 burner,oven,griddle)
  • 2- combo(6 burner,oven)
  • 4 Charbroiler
  • 2 convection oven
  • 5 flat griddle
  • conveyor oven-3
  • steam tables-7
  • pizza(stonedeck ) oven- 4
  • fryer(double and single)-15
  • hot dog roller-2
  • proofer/ holding cabinets/ smokers/ alto shaam/ slow cookers- 19
  • vertical broilers-2
  • microwaves-2
  • bun toasters-3
  • several panini and presses
  • salamander-1
  • NEW 6 burner, 24 griddle double oven
  • 4 burner, 12 griddle with oven
  • convection oven new

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Crazy times at the Frog!

If you are looking for alternative financing to start up your restaurant then come on into the Frog Restaurant Equipment.  Our Food Service Equipment Finance Manager will work with you to get what you need when you need it.  By using our easy food service and restaurant equipment financing programs you will be able to free up capital and cash flow to start your restaurant while still getting the equipment you need.  Our Finance Manager has great relationships with many banks and lending institutions and by this I mean we do so much business he has relationships with the loan processors, underwriters and all points in between and around.  What does this mean for you?  He can actually call, talk to a human that he talks to many times a day and due to our size he has some street credibility.  When One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment’s Finance Manger makes a call he’s talking to one of his friends on your behalf.  That friendly voice on the other side of the phone probably knows what the Finance Manager had for dinner before, probably talked to him three times in the day and does so much business with us that there is a HIGH level of trust.

You never know quite what will happen when you start a restaurant.  We heard a horrible story from one of our favorite customers the other day that their roof caved in.  I guess as it goes the hot water heater burst, leaked through the ceiling and caused over $6,000 worth of damage.  Additionally there was a $1,000 bill (water or gas?) that came about because of this emergency.  When they called their landlord, he stated, check out your lease, it’s up to you to cover this.  HOnestly this whole store broke our heart, one of our favorite startups just getting hit really hard before they even opened the door.  The hard part about this is it created a myriad of problems- actual hard cash for repairs, time of repairs which now pushed their opening and then additional stress.   So while you’re likely not going to find a bank or reputable company to finance your burst water tank and roof collapse or water bill, you can save money for that “rainy day” by financing or leasing your restaurant equipment at the Frog.  We’re here for you!  Call 407-480-3409 or email credit@onefatfrog.com

They’re unloading trucks of used restaurant equipment

We’ll post a few pictures later today of the warehouse team members unloading truckloads of used restaurant equipment.  But for now I’ll leave you with an abbreviated list of used restaurant equipment that will be released for finance, cash deals and credit cards- everything!  hahahahaha

Really our selection is out of this world- we have over 40 pieces of refrigeration… we set up complete bars, bakeries, coffee shops, pizza shops, cafeterias, and restaurants everyday.  Why shop anywhere else- we have the best price, selection and we’re good to smell.  Looks, now that’s another thing…

restaurant and commercial kitchen equipment hospitality Middle East UAE Saudi Egypt

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment is the high volume United States dealer who open new franchises, restaurants, bars, grills, resorts and hotels day in and day out throughout the world.  We do export to the Middle East to include Egypt, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment sells any hotline restaurant equipment natural gas or LP to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi, Egypt, and specifically Dubai and Luxor and Sharm.   info@onefatfrog.com

Finance & Lease Programs- Excellent Rates on new & used restaurant equipments- entire projects

One Fat Frog Food service and restaurant equipment has a wide variety of financing and leasing programs for your facility.  We have programs to work with anyone from startups to existing restaurants and all sorts of credit backgrounds.  At One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment our finance manager is excited to introduce some new Finance programs for A rated credit portfolios.  These new programs offer anywhere from $10,000 to $50,000 lines with really simple application process and little to no documentation needed.

Clients who are applying for this program will work with our finance manager to provide the usual information such as business name, FEIN, their personal information and projected sales.  A few other basic pieces of information are needed such as location and things of that nature.

So, send us your application which is available online or call for our Finance Manager to talk to him specifically about your credit profile.  He can help you!

We are dedicated to helping you find finance no matter what your credit background.  The Frog can do it!

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment, 407-480-3409

 

Frog Application

Fill out a one page application – takes five minutes or less!  It really is this simple at the Frog!

 

How do I get an application?

Stop in either of our 2 locations, call (407) 480-3409 and ask us to fax, email or US Mail an application.

 

6 X 99 Program

$198 down payment with first 6 payments of $99 to give you more time to get your equipment working for you before you make your first time payment.  This is a super way to offset your opening costs out of pocket and balance your payroll before really getting into the meat of the payment program.

 

Seasonal Skip Three Payments

This program is great for the wedding caterer.  If your food service or other business is seasonal than make the choice to skip your payments on (3) consecutive slower months so you can pay your bill when you have higher cash flow.  Often perfect in the restaurant industry for January, February and March!

 

 

30-60-90 Day Payments Deferrals

Do you need to defer your payments for 30, 60, or 90 days until you have higher cashflow?  This is a great program for someone still in the building stages and opening off-season.

 

Quarterly Payments

If you are the person who prefers lump sums or has large catering deals during different times- Graduation, weddings, New Years… well use the Frog quarterly payment program to pay only 4 times a year.

 

Graduated Lease

The Graduated Lease allows the small or large business owner to graduate their payments with smaller payments while the business gets off the ground.  This allows time for your marketing to work and your food service equipment to pay for itself.  As your business grows so does your ability to make higher payments!

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100% Financing

Finance 100% of your equipment including all the sales taxes and shipping!

 

 

Start-up Program

Start up financing up to $100,000 for businesses with less than a year in business.  Under $50,000 with little to no documentation

 

EXISTING Business Program

Financing based solely on business credit.  Business should be in business for over a year.

 

Medical/ Funeral Home/ Hospital Program

Financing program for medical professionals, funeral homes and hospitals- this might be a great option for medical refrigeration, funeral home coolers and refrigeration and waiting area equipment.

 

Ex-Wife Program

This is where you send a lot of your money to your ex-wife and you cannot afford to buy restaurant equipment.  Do not pass go.  We do not recommend clients to this program.  Often only available to clients who have completed many years of skirt chasing and happy hour marathons.

Trinidad and Haiti Restaurant and Food service Export Import

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment exports from the United States to anywhere internationally.  This means if you’re from Trinidad or Haiti or Egypt then we will do business with you and work to make things easy.  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment does high volume used restaurant equipment export for restaurants, hotels, bakeries, pizzerias, bars, delis, grills and groceries.  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment has two locations to better serve you and offers free delivery to the ports in Jacksonville and Miami.  Call us at 407-480-3409 to set up an appointment and make your purchase.  We would love to work with you.

Eames… I always assumed

I always assumed Charles and Ray Eames were brothers.  Come to find out they were a husband and wife team.  Interesting… interesting.  It can be done and done very well.  I’ve found many restaurant and bakery owners who team well.  Is that you?

Let us help you get started!  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment

used menu boards

So not sure I ever told you, at Orlando’s One fat Frog Restaurant Equipment  have some used menu boards for restaurants and delis and stores in stock- big and little we have them.  Also going to pick up some equipment today in Jacksonville so more inventory tomorrow.  And our team at One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment is growing, growing.  We’ve had to hire more staff to keep up with volume of new and used restaurant and food service equipment sales.  This (hiring more technicians, administrative and sales team) brings me one of the biggest pleasures in life.  We’re busy training this week and next week.  Nothing better than sharp employees who can help clients.  We’ve got a very high bar for our team at th and everyone is dedicated to working hard to build your restaurant.  Frog Team Members love our fast paced high volume atmosphere and seem to thrive off our go- go- go energy.

If you’re ready to build your restaurant, come shop where thousands upon thousands others do.  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment has the selection of great used food service equipment, furnishings and smallwares.  You can open on a dime and still keep your arm and your leg because we’d rather sell you just what you need then tons of extra equipment.  It’s about keeping things honest and getting sleep at night.  At Orlando and Sanford’s One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment locations we’ve been doing good straight business for almost a decade (under the same name, etc… unlike others who say they’ve been in business eons but change their name like they change their underwear or maybe just embellished by decades…hahaha).

What does doing straight business mean?  That means getting you the equipment you need, nothing more and nothing less.  We’re honest folks, we’re here to put you and keep you in business.  At One Fat Frog Food service equipment we are dedicated to getting you equipment that will work for you.  Part of our training program for new team members is that we never, ever sell based on a client’s ignorance and if you can get the client something with the same functionality at a better price then you are to be honest and say that.  It’s not about getting the highest ticket prices or pumping the most money out of a deal, it’s about doing right in life and part of that is doing good straight business.  If, at the end of the day, I can feel we’ve done fair business with you and stood behind what we do then life is good.

Thanks for being here for us folks!  We’re tickled to do business with you. One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

On a few side notes, yesterday was hectic but I had the pleasure of talking with Patty who we’re incubating to open in a few months.  Gosh, I love working with startups and so had the pleasure to give her what she needed to start the restaurant business plan.  I’m not a born sales person and honestly sales isn’t my big love.  As a former teacher and principal my true love is training and educating and that is something I through this website and at the stores by sitting down with clients and talking food service and restaurant business plan content.  And, catch me on the right day I’ve been told I’m quite the marketing genius… or idiot savant…hahahah… Maybe I’m like rainman with the forty watches on his arm but I have forty refrigerators.  That’s it- I’m the rain man of restaurant equipment, watch out Dustin Hoffman, there’s a new Rainman coming to town!

Oh yeah and my traipsings through the warehouse led me to some special finds- a like new 2912 Hobart slicer, a plethora of 48″ and 60″ refrigerated prep tables and at least 10 undercounter and worktop refrigerators and freezers.

So comein and buy a used menu board or let me tell you how to make one- but if you want that tidbit you gotta ask for Google Girl.  One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

Cairo, Cairo, Cairo Egypt, you know you need restaurant equipment

Egyptians in Cairo, you know you need restaurant equipment.  You know you love food.  You know you love to shop American companies.  Well if you’re looking to purchase new or used food service equipment in Cairo Egypt then you should look no further than the world famous One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment.  For almost a decade One Fat Frog REstaurant Equipment has been offering the best in wholesale pricing to the public for new and used restaurant equipment.  We are an industry leader of new and used restaurant equipment and wholesale bulk shipments of parts for export to South America, Egypt and the Middle East.

So whether you’re in Cairo proper, Giza, 6th of October (say hi to Jean and Jayne for me), Luxor, Hurghada, or in Maadhi then One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment is your dealer of choice.  We have an international sales staff that is United States trained in wholesale equipment sales with great pricing.  At One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment we have employees that speak English, Arabic, German and Spanish.

Why deal with a company that looks big on the internet?  It’s easy to say you have locations, it’s another thing to actually write about your business and show that you are big.  We are the nation’s highest volume dealership.  We deal in startup restaurants all the time and export.  There’s no time like the present to buy used and new food service equipment and have it shipped to Egypt.

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

Restaurant Equipment in our Warehouse for under $1000

Here’s a nifty list as of tonite, Apr. 27, 2012 of some of the used restaurant equipment available for under $1000 in our Orlando and Sanford showrooms.  Many of these pieces are available WELL UNDER $1000-.  All of this equipment is available for free delivery to Tampa, Ocala, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Orlando, Lakeland and more.

  1. single door UNDERCOUNTER freezer or refrigerator
  2. single door refrigerator
  3. fryer
  4. 4 burner counter top
  5. flat griddle
  6. charbroiler
  7. sink
  8. 2 door undercounter refrigerators
  9. slicer
  10. bottle coolers
  11. mug chillers/ frosters
  12. open air merchandisers
  13. glass top display freezers chest
  14. 6 burner range
  15. glass door display refrigerators
  16. soda fountain

This is not an all-in list… just a little sample of good used restaurant equipment available under one thousand dollars, many well under one thousand.  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment- stop in- you’ll be amazed at our selection of used inventory!