Built in Lincoln.
Backed in Swansea.

The name is the giveaway — Lincolnshire Catering. Lincat has built commercial cooking equipment in Lincoln since 1971, and it still does: the griddles, fryers and bains marie on Britain’s counters are made in England, not badged in from a container.

That matters more than it sounds. Half the catering badges in this country are trading names bolted onto whichever factory was cheapest that season. Lincat is the opposite — one factory, half a century of continuous model families, and since becoming a Middleby Group brand it has the muscle of one of the world’s biggest kitchen-equipment groups behind it. You see it in the range: the Invoq combi platform is genuinely modern kit, not a heritage brand coasting on its name.

And here’s what buyers get wrong: they file Lincat under “the pie warmer by the till” and stop there. The live catalogue runs from a £23 oven shield to a £23,000 pass-through combi, exported to more than 85 countries by the company’s own count. The heartland, though, is exactly where our customers live — the food-to-go counter. If the customer can watch it cooking, there’s probably a Lincat that does the job.

Lincat runs from £23.40 + VAT to £23,042.24 + VAT, with a £1,567.49 + VAT median. All + VAT.

The dealer’s view — where we reach for Lincat first, and where we honestly don’t.

The Dealer’s Five — the questions we answer before any brand earns counter space.