Hostex 2020 is Africa’s leading hospitality, catering, food and drink exhibition, delivering innovation and opportunity from 1-3 March 2020 (Sunday to Tuesday) at Sandton Convention Centre, Maude Street, Sandton, Johannesburg. Scotsman South Africa is very excited for the upcoming Hostex 2020 followed by the Scotsman Road Show featuring our special guest star Michalis Dimitrakopoulos World Coffee…
I like to think that we’ve all been in this position before. You’re standing in front of your freezer on a scorching summer day looking for something cold to put in your mouth when your eyes dart over the accumulated frost on the inside of your freezer. There seems to be plenty of it, certainly…
There are many instances and industries where ice is a necessary part of daily activities. You might need to store cold goods, drop cubes in delicious cocktails, create delicious frozen desserts or simply need to enable your guests and customers to enjoy an ice-cold drink on a hot summers day. Whatever the reason and approach,…
Running a coffee shop or café is expensive. There are so many costs involved that sometimes it can be difficult to know where you are losing money, and where you are making it. If you haven’t been using an ice machine in your business, then you may well find that this is the very reason…
Cryotherapy might not have been a word that you’ve heard before, though it can be easy to defer what it means simply by looking at the word ‘cryo’. Though far from it describing some sort of science-fiction setting of human popsicles souring through space on a mission of panspermia, it actually describes a medical process…
Ice is everywhere in our world, in our drinks, on shelves, at restaurants and cafes, and believe it or not, it is also used to a great extent in hospitals. Yes there are cafes and restaurants in these institutions, and it stands to reason that they would need a steady supply of ice to properly…
Ice – water that is frozen into a solid state, which can appear a transparent or opaque bluish colour depending on the presence of impurities. Simple enough right? Then how complicated can an ice machine possibly be? In goes the water and out it comes, frozen in a solid state, right? Not entirely, there’s more…
Cool Facts About Ice At Scotsman Ice Systems we are passionate about all things ice, in many ways, life on Earth depends on ice. This is because it provides most of the world’s fresh water supply, which keeps global sea levels from rising disastrously. Here are a few more interesting and super cool facts about…
The Role of Ice In Medicine We all know the general role of ice in our daily lives, we find ice cubes in our freezers, we find them in our cold drinks at the fast food joints and we use them in a bag when we have hurt our muscles or joints. Or we know…
When Is It Time To Repair Your Ice Machine? The reality of life is that the more you use things, or the longer you have it, the more likely it is going to need a repair or need a service to keep each part of it working perfectly. It is important to repair and service…