Read our tips about how to find the best catering equipment hire UK company.
With the sheer volume of events that take place around the country throughout the year, it’s no surprise that catering equipment hire UK is always in demand. This demand primarily comes from professional caterers, who are either looking to rent everything they need for an event, or top up their existing equipment by type or by number, in order to cater for a particular event.
Catering equipment rental is available from a variety of sources, including right here online at easyEventhire, where you can hire fryers, ovens, cookers, fridges, freezers, and almost anything and everything else you might need for your temporary catering event.
If you are an industry professional, then you may already have a preferred supplier for catering equipment hire that you use on a regular basis. If not, however, how do you choose the best catering equipment hire UK company to suit your needs? That’s why we’ve come up with these top tips below, to help you when the time comes, and hopefully these tips will save you time, money and effort!
Use a local catering equipment hire UK company
There are lots of reasons as to why you might want to deal with a local catering equipment rental company, none more so than the fact that it, ultimately, be cheaper for you. Almost every hire company will build in transport to and from your event venue if you need them to transport the equipment for catering. Put simply, the further away your venue from the hire company, the more expensive the transport rate will be.
To counter this, if there isn’t a local hire company that you want to use, maybe look for one a little further away where you can go and self-collect and return the cooking equipment hire. OK, so not ideal, but going in your van will probably be more cost-effective. That said, what about the time, hassle, and the money you end up spending on fuel. Do your calculations!
Make sure your equipment is tested
When dealing with powered catering equipment, you will need to ensure that it is regularly tested and there is evidence of this, as many wedding and event venues won’t even allow you to use catering equipment if you don’t have this.
Most catering equipment rental companies will do this as a matter of course, including easyEventhire. Appliances are either electric or LPG (propane) powered, and so look out for the PAT test certificate for electrical catering appliances, and an LPG certificate for propane-powered ones.
Look to source from one catering equipment hire UK company
Here at easyEventhire, we’re all into saving effort and keeping life simple. Therefore, it has to make sense for you to choose a catering equipment rentals company that can provide you with everything you need on your list.
Don’t hire a deep fat fryer from one company, a cooker from another, and fridges and freezers from another? Why? Well, that means multiple deliveries, multiple invoices, multiple costs and multiple points of contacts. Ultimately, this will mean a headache for you. Work with a company that can provide you with the complete range, in the quantities you need, and with the availability you need.
Build a relationship
This ties in a little with working with a local company in that it’s much easier to do this if they are in the same locality. That said, wherever the catering company is that you choose, build a relationship with a point of contact – it’s amazing how they will go out of their way to help you, especially when things don’t go 100% according to plan!
Cheapest doesn’t mean best!
And, whilst we all like to get a bargain, price isn’t always everything. Work with a company that is reliable, trustworthy, reputable and does what they say they are going to do – all this has a value. Go for the cheapest, and you take a risk. And do you really want to be running the risk of your catering equipment not arriving on time, or in the right place, or in the right numbers? We thought not. Choose an affordable catering equipment hire company!
So, hopefully these tips will help you when you need catering equipment hire UK. Of course, we’d like to think that you’d take a few moments to browse the range of equipment rental for catering that is available right here online at easyEventhire. You are able to place your secure order 24/7 and put your faith in the hands of the experts – you won’t be disappointed!
