Culinary Connections

Superior Products Restaurant Equipment and Supplies offers a variety of dinnerware choices. You can choose from multiple shapes, styles, brands, colors, and patterns. The first two things that you need to decide when purchasing dinnerware are which shape and which style is right for your establishment.


Shapes

• Wide rim plates- highlight smaller portions but take up more space on tabletop
• Medium rim plates- versatile and offer smaller center for presentation
• Narrow rim plates- allow for maximum serving sizes and elicit image of value
• Coupe shaped plates- contemporary look and feel with no rims 

Styles

• Plain rim plates- allow more focus on the food
• Sculptured rim plates- provide design and visual interest and can be coordinated with flatware patterns and tabletop accessories

There are three main types of ceramic dinnerware: bone china, porcelain, and stoneware. Plastic dinnerware is made from substances such as melamine, polycarbornate and SAN plastic. Many products are available to accessorize your tabletop and complement your dinnerware choice. Colored linen tablecloths or napkins add flair, and colored plates enhance the presentation of appetizers and desserts. Salt and pepper shakers or mills, candles or lighting, and table organizers also help make the tabletop more appealing to the eye. Food plate covers are a must for banquet and catering facilities.

Bone China- slightly translucent and made from white ceramic clay; contains at least 25% ox bone ash; most durable ceramic type and most expensive; color ranges from white to eggshell; often used for thin walled pieces

Porcelain- surface is harder than stoneware; made from Kaolin white clay and fired at 1300 degrees F; after glazing, it is fired again; color ranges from bright white to white with slight hint of blue

Stoneware- most popular dinnerware; made from clay fired with a colored glaze; color ranges from white to gray/beige, and varies from manufacturer to manufacturer


All of our dinnerware is lead free, fully vitrified and can be microwaved up to temperartures of 350 dgrees F. The vitrification process in creating dinnerware reduces absorption of liquids to very low levels. This process requires firing the dinnerware at high temperatures that convert it into a glass-like amorphous substance. Some dinnerware have polished or glazed feet. The polished feet are less abrasive and better for stacking. Glazed feet are covered with same material as surface of dinnerware and is less absorbent.