Banquet Holding and Transport Carts » Foodservice Frontier
Life was tough on the old frontier: only the strongest survived. Things are little different for Carter-Hoffmann foodservice carts at modern-day Wild West Town, a popular tourist park and corporate event center in rural McHenry County in northern Illinois. “We’ve not just used those carts, we’ve abused them,” laughs Wild West Town Owner Mike Donley. And he’s not joking: the carts are in use morning, noon, and night, and have been for 15 years. And still, the carts continue to perform trouble-free.
“They’re used in our kitchen, and they’re rolled to other locations on our very large property for banquets and company picnics,” explains Donley, who also owns Village Hall Banquets, a popular catering service and banquet facility. “For offsite catering, we roll the carts onto trucks, with Sterno to help keep them warm until we plug them in again at the location,” Donley says. (Carter-Hoffmann’s new EnduraHeat banquet carts include an exclusive patented heat retention system, avoiding the need for a canned heat product such as Sterno.)
With banquets for 250 to 400 guests and picnics accommodating up to 2,000, reliability is vital at Wild West Town. “The Carter-Hoffmann carts have never given us a bit of trouble,” says Donley as he heads out for another busy day on his modern-day frontier. –JT
Life was tough on the old frontier: only the strongest survived. Things are little different for Carter-Hoffmann foodservice carts at modern-day Wild West Town, a popular tourist park and corporate event center in rural McHenry County in northern Illinois. “We’ve not just used those carts, we’ve abused them,” laughs Wild West Town Owner Mike Donley. And he’s not joking: the carts are in use morning, noon, and night, and have been for 15 years. And still, the carts continue to perform trouble-free.
