New Gadgets from the Show Floor

A round up of innovative new products from the 2008 National Restaurant Association hotel/motel show.

by C&RB Staff (editor@clubandresortbusiness.com)
May 2008
 

Who needs a hammer: At Cardinal Glassware there were tempered wine glasses that are strong enough to hammer in a nail. (Just in case you can't find your hammer.) Others can survive a hard zing into a metal garbage can.

Those turbo-charged Excelerator hand-dryers can dry your hands in 15 seconds, twice as fast as regular dryers. And, according to the Excel Dryer Corp., they dry 4,000 hands for $1 worth of electricity.

"Our mats are certified slip-resistant by the National Floor Safety Institute," explained the Atlantic Rubber Products, adding, "And slips and falls are the No. 1 expense restaurants face each year." Who knew? On top of all of that his mats, located in the Green Pavilion, were made of 100 percent recycled material.

A high-tech, automated citrus juicers can replace that one-at-a-time model so often found in kitchens.
Other new food products you soon might taste included Bacon Salt, a kosher, vegetarian seasoning; thaw-and-serve carpaccio made from free-range, grass-fed beef, and $100-per-pound Iberico ham from Spain.

Innovators also debuted such new technology as the Cucina 2000 Series Automatic Pasta Cooker, which cooks pasta al dente in less than 90 seconds with the push of a button, and the Saf-T-Wash Food Sanitizer, which blasts meats and produce with ozone to protect against bacteria and prolong shelf life.