Equipment specified and installed by Singer Equipment Company

Specifying team: William McNamee, Max Kellman, Ashley Bradford

In early 2019, there weren’t any operational ghost kitchens in New York City. Camilla Opperman found this out the hard way.

Since the COVID pandemic, the landscape of foodservice operations changed and so the needs of their operators. Enter Nimbus Kitchen’s first location in New York City, which opened in January 2021.

The vision of Nimbus is one of opportunity, camaraderie, and flexibility. Unlike most ghost kitchens or commissaries, Nimbus guarantees dedicated equipment to its users as well as professional sanitization after every shift. All equipment rests on casters for easy transport, so members can select their kitchen configuration based on their operation’s unique needs.

Bringing this concept to reality required vision and insight from industry professionals, so they got to work, asking industry owners and operators what their dream kitchen would look like in this space. After over 200 conversations, there was one piece of equipment they invested in early on, that they knew would take their kitchen from prep school to professional: their Alto-Shaam blast chiller.

“Something that’s unique about our model is that people are operating on pretty tight shifts. If someone comes in for 4 hours, they don’t have the luxury of waiting around for their food to cool,” says Opperman. “The blast chiller was a great solution for those businesses who are working on a tighter timeline to be more efficient.”

Efficiency and universal access to their kitchen spaces are two key cornerstones of the business they have built, and so their equipment procurement was an exercise in calculated curation. After being introduced to Singer Equipment Company at a New York City Hospitality Group meeting, they knew they wanted a one-stop shop that could consult on their project and deliver the equipment and supplies their team needed to fulfill their mission.

“We worked really closely with Singer on getting high quality equipment that could take 24/7 utilization,” says Opperman. “Alto-Shaam really fell into that category of being high-quality, durable and wasn’t going to break the bank.”

In addition, the team selected Blodgett ovens, a Southbend range, Garland fryers and a Vulcan tilt skillet.

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