Keep food and plates warm with our Plain Top Hot Cupboard. Large stock, online booking, competitive prices. Delivery across England & Wales.
The plain top hot cupboard from Expo Hire provides essential functionality for keeping food and plates at the perfect serving temperature. Its robust stainless steel construction ensures durability and ease of cleaning, making it a reliable choice for a wide range of events.
This hot cupboard offers significant internal capacity to hold prepared dishes or stacks of dinnerware. The internal shelves are fixed to provide a stable platform for your items. You can expect the unit to hold approximately 80 to 100 standard 10-inch dinner plates, depending on their thickness. The adjustable thermostat allows you to set the precise temperature required for your needs, ensuring everything stays warm and ready for service.
The flat, plain stainless steel top surface serves a dual purpose. It acts as a convenient work area for plating meals or assembling dishes during busy service periods. Crucially, this top surface also heats up, providing an additional area for warming plates. This means you can keep a continuous supply of warm crockery ready for your guests, enhancing the overall dining experience.
The plain top hot cupboard is a practical addition to many catering scenarios. Consider it for:
Setting up the hot cupboard is straightforward. Position the unit on a level surface. Ensure it is within reach of a standard UK 13A power socket. Connect the plug, and then use the thermostat dial to select your desired heat setting. Both the internal shelves and the stainless steel top will reach their operational temperature within approximately 20 minutes, allowing for quick deployment.
At Expo Hire, we supply and deliver electrical equipment for hire to major venues across the country. Before delivery, we clean, scrutinize, and PAT Test every device, and each item will be labeled with the date passed to demonstrate their compliance with the regulations, which should keep even the most officious safety inspector happy.
Please be aware: Our electrical offerings come equipped with a standard UK three-pin plug. We also recommend that you check the capacity of your venue's wiring circuit to prevent any potential overloading.
Return all items clean and in the condition they arrived. Ensure all components are present before collection.
Working out delivery costs is easy with Expo Hire — simply use our carriage calculator to find which of our branches is near to you. Tap your postcode in and it will confirm whether we cover that postcode, which of our 11 branches is closest to you, the cost for delivery from that branch, and any possible extra charges.
Once you have filled your basket and confirmed your delivery dates and postcode in the checkout, we will show you an itemised cost for delivery so you know exactly what you are paying for before you place your order.
Want to know when your delivery is coming? You can track your driver using our real-time maps on the day of delivery and collection. Simply enter your postcode and order number on our order tracking page and find out when our driver will arrive. We also send an automated text with a tracking link on the day.
The unit holds approximately 80 to 100 standard 10-inch dinner plates, depending on the thickness of the crockery.
Yes, the stainless steel top acts as a heated plate warmer. Keep items off the surface unless they are heat-resistant dinnerware.
The cupboard runs on a standard UK 230V mains plug. Ensure the socket sits within 2 metres of the appliance.
The internal shelves remain fixed in position to provide structural support for heavy stacks of ceramic plates.
| Material | Stainless Steel |
|---|---|
| Width | 700 mm |
| Height | 850 mm |
| Length | 1600 mm |
| Weight | 90 kg |
This item is subject to 20% VAT and therefore you will pay £84.00 each for a standard 3 day hire at checkout.
As primarily a business-to-business supplier we advertise our prices ex-VAT as most businesses will be able to reclaim the VAT amount.
No. We recommend a minimum hire period of 3 days to provide enough time for set-up and break-down of your event, and to make sure that problems such as traffic or adverse weather conditions do not impact on your event. If you want to hire for a shorter period than this then we cannot offer a discount.
Yes, after the standard hire perion of 3 Days you will be charged £14.00 per extra day up to day 7, £10.50 per extra day up to day 28 and £7.00 per extra day after that.
| Days Hire | Cost (ex-VAT) |
|---|---|
| 1 | £70.00 |
| 2 | £70.00 |
| 3 | £70.00 |
| 5 | £98.00 |
| 7 | £126.00 |
| 14 | £199.50 |
| 21 | £273.00 |
| 35 | £395.50 |
Nothing! Unlike most of our competitors, rather than charging a large deposit, we provide a FREE 'minor deposit waiver' scheme to cover minor damage and loss. Excessive or negligent damage and loss will be invoiced at 10 times the standard hire price of the relevant items. Please read our terms and conditions for full details.
There is a minimum charge of £40.00 for a distance up to 10 miles each way.
After that we charge £1.00 per mile each way and an additional £40.00 for each journey on a weekend or bank holiday.
We calculate the distance using driving directions from our local base to your event postcode, so it is important that you provide the correct delivery address at checkout.
You can use our Carriage Calculator to get a full quote.
We make deliveries anytime between 8am and 8pm, however we can offer early (8am - 1pm) or late (12 noon - 6pm) slots for an additional cost calculated at checkout.
We can not guarantee more specific times unless you pay for a dedicated driver. This is individually priced on request and are subject to availability.
No. To ensure that your products arrive safely and correctly we offer a delivery and collection service only.
No. As we are an online-only you can view all of our products on our website. To keep our prices as low as posssible our warehouses are not open to the public.
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The best way of contacting us is by using our live chat facility but if you are looking for our phone number or email addresses you can find everything you need on our contact us page
Unless the two person carriage charge has been paid for, deliveries and collections are made by a single driver, who has 15 minutes to deliver or collect your order.
Our drivers are not allowed to take items up or down stairs or into lifts, and all deliveries need to be made within 50 metres of the vehicle. Any delays beyond the standard delivery time caused by access issues or items not being ready will be charged at £120 per hour or part thereof.
If a driver arrives and delivery or collection is impossible then unfortunately a wasted journey charge will apply. You will be sent a live tracking link so you can monitor your delivery in real time — our drivers do not make phone calls to notify of arrival times.
If access to collecting the hired equipment is denied, blocked, or impassable, a wasted collection journey will be automatically charged. Any parking tickets issued to vehicles whilst executing a delivery or collection will be charged for whilst we appeal.
