The Food Service Rant thread

It's not the same quality as Magliner trust me.

 

Speaking of which I rather like this new Gemini XL.
The breaks on the wheels are extremely helpful and the new bigger all around casters were much needed this wheeler maneuvers much better in the trailer and rolls 100xs better over dock plates and down ramps etc etc etc.

 

I see you load front to back.. I’m a back to front kind of guy

 

I have to load it the best way I can which is how ever it fits LOL! The problem is I have to make sure it won't fall on me when I bring this down the ramp. The front has to go out first that's how I can control it.

The new big casters in the front make a huge different over the regular Gemini.

 

For 150 at Lowes/HD, you can get a piece of junk that's suitable for Joe Homeowner to move stuff around once in a blue moon. Put that into hardcore food service and it won't last a month.

 

One of our customers bought fold down dollys from U-Line the U-Line brand and they are about half the price of Magliner's and they are absolute junk. I would never buy a U-Line brand dolly they are not meant to take any kind of beating at all.

The Magliner's and Wyses and Magcoa's are built to take a beating 24 hours a day 7 days week day in day out out in the rain out in the heat out in the snow.

Consumer grade stuff you buy at Lowes will not hold up like @Gearjammin' Penguin said that Lowes stuff is not meant to be used every day.

 

Back In The Day, I started my Core-Mark career before they were their own division. Fleming bought out a grocery warehouse in Plymouth, MN and put in this company (now defunct) called RTX.

RTX: You're all going to be owner operators now.

Drivers: Uh, no.

RTX: Well, then you're fired.

Drivers: Bring it on.

RTX: ####!

So RTX had to pull a company division out of their arse, which is when I got hired on. But they still kept trying to run things like an O/O outfit, pressuring us to buy our own stuff. No dice, even though we were so completely down on dollies you had to take yours into the bathroom with you if you wanted a snowball's chance of hanging on to it. (For real, that's how bad it was. I'm not kidding.) So the TM bought a bunch of bargain-basement dollies from HD.

If you went off the curb at the wrong angle with them--dead empty--you would bend the axle. Really. This is why I treat hardware store equipment as suspect at the least.

 

I can only fit about 12 to 15 cases on the dolly depending on the load and whether or not its 2 liters

 

Not the Wyse 1000

I have two of these units that I bought used both with drum breaks. You can drop this thing off the roof of a building and you would have to worry about it damaging the ground below. This is the most solid heavy duty hand truck I've ever used, the hand truck is really like a rock.