Patent ID: 8522675

Claim:
A food holding cabinet comprising: a chassis having a top, a bottom, first and second sides and front and rear panels, at least one of the front and rear panels having an opening through which a food product or food holding tray can be passed into the chassis; a food holding compartment within the chassis; a first glass-ceramic plate fixed in the chassis and having first and second opposing surfaces, the second surface of the first glass-ceramic plate facing into the compartment, the first surface facing away from the compartment; a first heating element attached to a first area of the first surface of the first glass-ceramic plate; a second heating element attached to a second area of the first surface of the first glass-ceramic plate, the second area being laterally separated from the first area, the first and second heating elements being electrically and spatially separated from each other, the first heating element configured to emit a first amount of infrared heat energy through the first area of the first glass-ceramic plate, the second element configured to emit a second amount of infrared heat energy through the second area of the first glass-ceramic plate.