OK Express Hartswater: forecourt kitchen and On The Go counter
For OK Express Hartswater
A compact production kitchen behind a full front-of-house hot food, coffee and cold beverage counter for the new OK Express in Hartswater: extraction, gas cooking line, convection oven, prep and wash-up, hot and cold displays, slush, soft-serve and coffee, delivered, installed and commissioned by the Excell Kimberley team.
The brief
OK Express Hartswater is a forecourt convenience store with a serious food offer: an On The Go counter with pies, pizza, burgers and quick meals, a Best Brew coffee station with slush and soft-serve, a biltong and deli cabinet, and braai packs at the door. All of it is produced in a small back-of-house kitchen that had to be fitted out and running for opening day.
What we installed
Back of house. A stainless steel extraction canopy over the cooking line; a gas flat-top griddle with open burners and a gas fryer; a ten-tray convection oven on a stand with a tray rack beneath it; stainless steel prep tables; a double-bowl wash-up sink with a hand-wash basin and wire shelving for stock and smalls.
Front of house. Heated displays for pies and hot food, refrigerated display units for sandwiches, salads and desserts, a biltong drying cabinet, a twin-bowl slush machine, a soft-serve machine, a bean-to-cup coffee machine, a commercial microwave and a SmartVac vacuum packer for portioning.
Delivery, installation and commissioning
Hartswater is on our weekly Northern Cape route from Kimberley, so the equipment arrived on our own vehicles and our technicians positioned, levelled and connected every unit. Gas and extraction were connected and tested, each machine was started up and run under load, and the store team was shown how to operate and clean the line before hand-over.
After-sales
The store is covered by the Excell warranty on every unit, with on-site call-outs from Kimberley and spares from our workshop. When something needs attention, the same team that installed it comes back.
