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Designed to keep hot food presented for serving.
Suitable for restaurants, cafes and retail food settings.
Use it to showcase ready-to-serve menu items.<\/p>\n
Follow the equipment instructions and food safety guidance.
Check the product specifications for exact model details.
Please confirm dimensions and heating details before ordering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[24],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2518","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-bakery-equipment","desktop-align-left","tablet-align-left","mobile-align-left","first","instock","sale","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walikitchen.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walikitchen.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walikitchen.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walikitchen.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walikitchen.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walikitchen.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walikitchen.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walikitchen.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walikitchen.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}