Cooking in Kenya

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We’ve committed to buying 500 Jiko cookers, an incredibly basic but clever little stove that emits a fraction of the smoke of a normal cooking fire for just 20% of the wood or charcoal usually needed. That saves two tonnes of carbon per household per year, making them the Kenyan equivalent of ‘low carbon cooking’.

They’re healthier in the home, save costs for the poorest families and help keep young girls, who normally collect the firewood, in school. They also provide work for the Ichingo Women’s Group co-operative who make the cookers. For every Green Footprint item bought by a Space client, we’ll buy a Jiko cooker for a Kenyan family. So help us to make the scheme a big success – buy some green kit today!

Green Guide

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We all know that green isn’t always black and white and cutting through the plethora of claims about eco equipment can be a headache. So, we’ve teamed up with the Sustainable Restaurant Association to produce a no-nonsense guide to making your commercial kitchen more sustainable and keeping it that way. The 20-page guide is packed full of handy tips and expert advice on everything you need to know about sustainability, from choosing equipment and designing your kitchen to other essential topics like waste, water and energy-efficiency. Get your hands on a free copy today – call us on 01452 383000.

We’re one of the best!

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Space was named Best Supplier to the Industry Employer as well as coming 8th overall in the top 50 ranking of the country’s best employers in the foodservice sector, which is a real achievement. And what’s really good about it is that we won the award on the back of an independent survey of our team on what it’s actually like to work here – honest, unbiased feedback about us as an employer. So thanks everyone!

And we’re always looking for more good people to join our growing team, so if you fancy working with one of the UK’s leading foodservice design contractors who also happen to be a very nice bunch of people, get in touch today!

Say hello to Ian

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It’s been a busy time and we’ve got lots of irons in the fire so we want to make sure we make the most of all the exciting new opportunities that come our way. Ian’s got bags of commercial experience, having worked for the vending side of Mars Drinks for over a decade as well as vending solutions specialists Crane Merchandising Solutions and IMI Cornelius on their beverage dispensing systems. Ian’s bringing a fresh pair of eyes to the Space business and making sure we get to a £20 million business as swiftly as we got to a £10 million one. Come and say hello soon.

Space helps River Cottage rise from the flames

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We were as shocked as everyone else at the scale of the damage and naturally wanted to pitch in. After drawing up some initial plans for a replacement kitchen, Space’s Dave Griffin was on site within days with new cooking ranges, dishwashers and work surfaces, after calling in a few favours from friends of our own. Over the space of just 24 hours, a new field kitchen sprang up literally in the middle of a field. Dave and his team spent a day installing the equipment before returning to make some last minute checks for the chefs and manager. Everything went to plan, and thanks to a phenomenal effort from everyone involved – and an amazing spirit of camaraderie – over 130 River Cottage guests enjoyed a delicious three course dinner last weekend. Just goes to show what you can achieve when everyone pulls together. We wish the team all the best!

Back to college in Reading

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State-of-the-art appliances like suited Mareno cooking stations with built-in solid ranges and gas hotplates power the training kitchen, with a standalone bespoke teaching module nearby that can be moved into the restaurant for food demos. The new student-run production kitchen likewise features Mareno cooking equipment and a versatile Rational 10 grid combi oven, alongside energy-saving Gram refrigeration and Winterhalter dishwashing, to keep an eye on the environment, too. Space’s full creative capabilities came into play in a scheme that afforded a blank sheet of paper in design terms yet a closely controlled budget. The result is a facility the college rates as “fantastic”.

Eco-kitchen wins us another award

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We fought off stiff competition to carry off the title of Best Sustainable Foodservice Installation and with it recognition for the wealth of sustainable features we put into the kitchen. Our innovative Green Footprint scheme and the fact that we packed in an impressive array of technologies into a single installation also caught the judges’ eye. Come and talk to us soon about greening your kitchen!

One of the best for Sir Thomas Rich’s Grammar School

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Rob kindly gave his time to cut the ribbon – or in this case, raise the frying pan – at the official opening of the new state-of-the-art £300,000 facility on 4th March. We created the brand new food tech room for pupils to be put through their paces and learn valuable culinary skills, fitting energy saving cooking equipment and top notch food preparation areas just like you’d find in a professional kitchen. As well as offering a fantastic new teaching room for the school, the facilities will also be used to offer community-based food teaching courses for adults and others in the community.

Space takes pole position!

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We’re taking a lap of honour after coming up with a new design for the F1 interview desk. We got the call from the F1 management team who were trying to track down a new look for what must rank as one of the world’s most widely-travelled desks – a specially designed unilateral table the winning drivers give their tv interviews from.

It had to collapse for easy transport and look the part, too. We made a smart new version out of lightweight powder-coated aluminium and stainless steel with a dash-board style upstand to house the tv monitors they watch the race played back on. Check it out here when it made its debut at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on 27th March.

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