Accessories & Tableware
Accessories & Tableware is Craven Cooling’s largest department, covering everything a pub, café, hotel, takeaway or care home needs to plate, pour and serve food once it leaves the kitchen — commercial crockery and glassware, pots and pans, Gastronorm containers, oven trays and bakeware, cutlery and knives, serving and bar accessories, and shelving and food storage. The key buying consideration across the department is matching material and durability to service style: vitrified porcelain or stoneware crockery and toughened glassware for high-turnover hospitality, 18/10 stainless or non-stick cookware for kitchen prep, and EN 631-standard Gastronorm for compatibility with bain maries, ovens and fridges. “Catering tableware,” “commercial kitchenware” and “hospitality supplies” are common umbrella buyer terms.
Key specifications
The department is organised into seven areas. Crockery and glassware cover front-of-house serving — vitrified porcelain and toughened or fully tempered glass built for repeated commercial dishwasher cycles. Pots, pans and Gastronorm handle the kitchen: heavy-gauge aluminium and stainless cookware for the hob and oven, and EN 631 Gastronorm (from 1/9 up to 2/1, in 20 to 200mm depths) that drops straight into bain maries, ovens, prep counters and fridges. Oven trays and bakeware run to the 600×400mm Euronorm and GN footprints. Cutlery and knives split into table service (18/10, 18/8 and 18/0 stainless) and kitchen knives. Serving, bar and food-storage accessories, plus shelving and storage racks, finish the back-of-house. The thread across all seven is matching material and durability to how hard an item is worked and how often it is washed. Used across pubs, cafés, hotels, restaurants and care home dining rooms.
Accessories & Tableware — FAQs
Do I need to match crockery, glassware and cutlery ranges across a venue?
Not strictly, but operators usually pick complementary ranges (same glaze tone for crockery, matching cutlery weight and finish) so table settings look consistent, since chip resistance, weight and finish vary noticeably between manufacturers.
What’s the difference between “commercial” and consumer tableware?
Commercial ranges are rated for repeated commercial dishwasher cycles, stacking under daily handling and (for cookware) sustained hob/oven use — consumer equivalents are usually thinner-walled and not warrantied for that level of use.