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Food Prep Equipment Attributes

Food prep equipment is the powered bench and floor machines between receiving and the cookline: planetary mixers, batch-bowl cutter mixers, continuous-feed vegetable prep, slicers, grinders, buffalo choppers, VCMs, dough sheeters. Foodservice E&S dealers sell it to restaurants, K-12 and campus dining, healthcare and corrections, usually off a dealer quote or a consultant's spec rather than a cart.

The specs exist; they are just scattered. A Hobart HL600 sheet puts motor hp and amp draw in a paragraph, five agitator RPM values in one table, the #12 taper attachment hub in a bullet, and the NEMA plug configuration (L15-20P, cord not included) in a fourth table on another page. Net weight appears twice, 866 lb and 905 lb with the bowl, and only a footnote says which is which.

Unit drift does the rest. Robot Coupe's 3 L R2 bowl reaches US catalogs as "3 Qt", "3 Liter" and "3.17 qt": three filter buckets, one SKU. Discs are metric at the factory and fractional-inch by the time a distributor lists them. Voltage arrives as 110, 115 and 120 for one nameplate.

Core

Every SKU needs these. Without them the record is not a product, it is a row.

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN)
identifier
HL600-1STD

The only reliable key across AutoQuotes, the dealer ERP and the factory. Suffixes carry real config: HL600-1STD is the accessory package, HL600-1 is not.

Equipment Type
enum
Planetary Floor Mixer

First filter on every rail. A batch-bowl cutter mixer and a continuous-feed vegetable prep machine are not substitutes, even at identical hp.

Bowl / Batch Capacity
number · qt
60 qt

Sizes the machine to the batch. A 60 qt mixer takes 80 lb of 60% AR bread dough; rated capacity follows product and agitator, not bowl volume.

Motor Horsepower
number · hp
2.7 hp

Separates light chopping from dense dough and semi-frozen product. Buyers filter hp before almost anything else on mixers and processors.

Voltage
enum · V
200-240 V

Decides whether it plugs in or needs a new circuit. 120 V countertop, 208-240 V bench and 380-460 V floor units are three different install jobs.

Phase
enum
3 Phase

Single-phase and three-phase versions share a model family and a hero image but not a part number. Wrong phase is a full return, not a swap.

Full Load Amps
number · A
10.0 A

Sizes the breaker and the service. The same HL600 draws 18.0 A at 200-240/1 and 10.0 A at 200-240/3.

Overall Dimensions (W x D x H)
text · in
40-3/4 x 32-5/8 x 61-11/16 in

Consultants lay out from these. Also decides whether a 61 in floor mixer clears a hood, a shelf or a doorway on the way in.

GTIN-14 / UPC
identifier
00012345678905

Required to list on marketplaces and to match receipts to POs. Equipment SKUs frequently reach the dealer with none assigned.

Country of Origin
enum
United States

Drives duty, tariff exposure and Buy American eligibility on K-12, GSA and municipal bids, where it is a pass/fail line.

Differentiating

What buyers actually compare on. This is where catalogs win or lose the filter.

Attachment Hub Size
enum
#12 taper

Decides whether a grinder, slicer or shredder attachment fits. #12 taper is the Hobart standard; a mismatch kills the accessory sale.

Drive Type
enum
Gear transmission with VFD

Belt-driven slicers are quieter and cheaper to service; gear-driven handle dense and semi-frozen product. Buyers ask for one or the other by name.

Agitator / Disc Speed
range · RPM
36-362 RPM (4 fixed + stir)

Speed count alone is not comparable. HL600 runs 36 RPM stir to 362 RPM fourth; a competitor's '4 speeds' may top out well below that.

Rated Throughput
number · lb/h
7,920 lb/h

The number a volume buyer actually compares. Continuous-feed processors are sold on pounds per hour, not on bowl size.

Cut / Slice Thickness Range
range · mm
1-20 mm (3/64-25/32 in)

Menu-driven. A slicer that will not go under 1 mm cannot do prosciutto; a disc set with no 3 mm cannot do standard mirepoix.

Food Zone Material
enum
304 stainless steel

Stainless bowls survive the dish machine and corrections and healthcare specs; polycarbonate is lighter and cheaper with a shorter service life.

Compliance & identifiers

Standards, regulatory data, and the identifiers channels reject you for missing.

Sanitation Certification
enum
NSF certified to NSF/ANSI 8

Health departments accept an ANSI-accredited listing. For powered prep the standard is NSF/ANSI 8, and mark, certifier and file number all matter.

Electrical Safety Listing
enum
cULus Listed

Inspectors and insurers look for a listing mark valid in the US and Canada. Unlisted units get rejected at final inspection on new-build jobs.

The fields that aren't in the schema at all

What most food prep equipment catalogs are missing.

The table above is the schema most catalogs already have. These are the attributes that usually aren't in it — each one surfaced by a signal from the live market rather than by an audit of what's already there. This is what Anglera's Schema Foundry does on a real catalog, in this category.

Supplier signal
+ NEMA Plug Configuration & Cord Supplied

Hobart's HL600 sheet carries a Plugs and Receptacles table: NEMA L15-20P, molded plug on cord No, power cord included No. Distributor listings carry the voltage/phase/amps and drop that table.

Machine lands on install day with no cord. The electrician is not booked, the opening slips, and the dealer eats the second trip.

Search signal
+ Attachment Hub Size

Buyers search '#12 hub' to find a mixer that takes their grinder head and get zero results. The hub taper is a bullet on the factory spec sheet and a field almost nowhere.

The attachment sale goes to whoever lists the hub. Or the wrong grinder head ships and comes back freight-collect.

Competitor signal
+ Sanitation listing as a governed field

Catalogs put 'NSF Certified' in a Features blob beside 'UL Certified'. No field holds the standard (NSF/ANSI 8), the certifier (NSF vs ETL Sanitation vs UL EPH), or the listing number.

Cannot filter NSF-only for a health-department or K-12 bid, and cannot produce the file number when a consultant asks for it.

Supplier signal
+ Rated Input Power (W)

A 120 V / 7 A processor pulls roughly 840 W at the wall and is still sold as 2 hp. European datasheets for that machine publish watts; US catalogs publish hp only, so the two never reconcile.

Buyers cannot compare hp across brands or size a circuit, so the spec question returns as an RFQ someone answers by hand.

Review signal
+ Crated Dimensions & Doorway Clearance

Floor mixers ship at 900+ lb crated. Pre-sale questions on 60 and 80 qt models repeatedly ask whether the crate clears a standard door; catalogs list only uncrated W x D x H.

Refused at the dock or stranded in a hallway. Return freight on a 955 lb crate plus restock wipes out the margin on the unit.

How Schema Foundry finds these

Messy in, governed out.

The same value, spelled every way foodservice equipment & supply suppliers spell it. A filter only works once they agree.

Voltage
110V115V120V115/120V110-120 V120 volts
120 V

110 and 115 are legacy designations for the same 120 V nameplate. Three spellings split one filter bucket into three.

Bowl Capacity
3 Qt3 Liter3.17 qt3L3 QT.3 qt (3 L)
3.0 L (3.2 qt)

Robot Coupe's R2 ships one 3 L bowl. Distributors publish it as 3 Qt, 3 Liter and 3.17 qt, so a single SKU lands in three buckets.

Disc Thickness
1 mm3/64"1mm (3/64 in)0.04 in1 MM1mm
1 mm

Robot Coupe publishes metric; US listings re-cut to fractions and round inconsistently (2 mm to 5/64 in, 3 mm to 1/8 in).

Sanitation Listing
NSFNSF ApprovedNSF ListedETL SanitationNSF-CertifiedETL-S
NSF/ANSI 8, NSF certified

NSF does not say 'approved'. ETL Sanitation is a separate accredited mark to the same standard, not a synonym to merge.

What buyers ask

Every one of these should be answerable from the attributes above. If it isn't, that's a gap.

  • Does it run on 120V, or do I need a dedicated 208-240V circuit run to the bench?
  • Is a cord and plug included, or does my electrician have to hard-wire it?
  • Is it NSF certified? My health inspector won't sign off on anything that isn't.
  • Will a #12 hub meat grinder attachment fit this mixer?
  • How much pizza dough can the 60 qt actually take in one batch?
  • Will the crate fit through a 36 in kitchen door?
  • Belt driven or gear driven? I'm slicing semi-frozen product.
  • Which discs come with it, and will my old CL52 discs fit?

What channels require

The same SKU, different mandatory fields per destination.

AutoQuotes (AQ) dealer & consultant database
Manufacturer part number / modelList price and multiplier groupSpec sheet PDFOverall dimensions and weightElectrical rating (V / Ph / Hz / A)Freight class and crate dimensions
FEDA Data Portal
Manufacturer part numberGTIN / UPCStandardized category attributesProduct imagesSpec sheet URLMarketing description
Amazon Business
GTIN / UPC or GTIN exemptionBrand and MPNItem dimensions and weightCountry of originMain image on white background
Distributor's own faceted search
Equipment TypeVoltage / Phase / AmpsBowl or batch capacity (qt)HorsepowerSanitation listingPlug configuration

Food Prep Equipment data, in practice

Is an ETL Sanitation mark the same as NSF certification?

Different certifier, same standard. Both are ANSI-accredited programs certifying to NSF/ANSI, and for powered food prep that standard is NSF/ANSI 8. Health departments generally accept NSF, Intertek's ETL Sanitation, UL's EPH Classified mark, or CSA Sanitation to NSF/ANSI. The data problem is that they are not synonyms and must not collapse into one 'NSF' flag. Carry three fields: the standard (NSF/ANSI 8), the certifier, and the listing or file number. A record that only says 'NSF Certified' inside a features blob cannot be filtered, cannot be proved on a bid, and cannot be rechecked when the listing lapses.

Which NSF standard actually applies to food prep equipment?

NSF/ANSI 8 covers commercial powered food preparation equipment: coffee grinders, grinders, mixers, pasta machines, peelers, saws, slicers, tenderizers and similar machines. It explicitly does not apply to manually operated equipment. Non-powered prep gear sits under NSF/ANSI 2 (food equipment), and food-zone materials under NSF/ANSI 51. So a Robot Coupe or a Hobart planetary mixer is an NSF/ANSI 8 item; a mandoline or a prep table is not. Tagging a hand tool 'NSF/ANSI 8' puts a wrong standard on the record, and a consultant who goes looking for the listing will find nothing.

How should horsepower be stored when suppliers publish it differently?

Horsepower here is not a single basis. A 120 V / 7 A processor draws roughly 840 W at the wall and is still sold as 2 hp, because that figure is a peak or output rating rather than continuous input. The same machine's European datasheet publishes watts. Carry both: Motor Horsepower (hp, as published by the supplier) and Rated Input Power (W, from the nameplate), and record which basis the hp figure uses. The hp filter keeps working for buyers who shop that way, and the electrical load stays honest for whoever sizes the circuit.

Why does the same machine show up as 3 qt and 3.17 qt?

Because the bowl is 3 litres. Robot Coupe builds the R2 with a 3 L bowl; US distributors variously publish it as '3 Qt' (rounded), '3 Liter' (untranslated), and '3.17 qt' (converted). All three describe the same bowl. On a faceted rail that single SKU lands in three capacity buckets, and a buyer filtering '3 qt' misses the listings that converted honestly. Normalize to the manufacturer's build unit and carry the conversion alongside, then filter on the converted value. The identical pattern hits discs, which are metric at the factory and fractional-inch by the time a US catalog lists them.

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