Patent ID: 8307761
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: A47F,A47J

Abstract:
1. A food presentation module generally immobile in use, comprising: a. a frame; b. adjacent first and second wells for receiving containers of bulk food, each well being individually insulated and thermally isolated from an adjacent well via interior walls and exterior walls forming insulative air gaps therebetween, the wells being uncovered in use so as to expose food received therein to the ambient environment; and c. a temperature-control system for controlling temperatures of the first and second wells independently, the temperature-control system configured to allow food received in either the first or the second well to be refrigerated to a temperature substantially below ambient, while food received in the other of the first or the second well may be heated to a temperature substantially above ambient, and wherein temperatures of each well may be switched between heating and refrigerating, regardless of the temperature of any other well such that both wells may be refrigerated, both wells may be heated, or the first or second well may be refrigerated while the other of the first or second well is heated.