kitchen lay out

4. Work Centers
• Focused around major appliances –
refrigerator-freezer, range, or sink.
These centers make possible an orderly
flow of activities connected with food
storage, preparation, cooking serving,
and clean-up.

5. Work Flow
• Where work is done most efficiently
when it flows in a natural progression,
either from left to right or right to left.

6. Work Simplification
• Means doing the job in the easiest, simplest
and quickest way.
Work Station
• Simply means a specific work area where a
particular kind of food is produced or a specific
job is done.

7. Work Triangle
• An imaginary line drawn from
each of the three primary work
stations in the kitchen, and avoid
traffic flow problems.

8. • Kitchen is said to be the heart of the home same as
the restaurants. It is the busiest area in these kind
of business. It is the area where food is prepared
and cooked.
• Efficiency in the kitchen starts with a geometry,
particularly a triangle. The kitchen work triangle
must be considered when planning the layout of the
kitchen.

10. Designed for an
efficient kitchen by
considering the
triangle between the
stove, sink and the
fridge.
Space is efficient to do
the main kitchen task.
Minimize distant
carrying of hot pans
Ease of access when
thawing and clearing
up
Handy snack path
if the fridge is on
the outside

11. An imaginary line drawn from the three primary
work stations in the kitchen, and avoid traffic flow
problems.

13. Kitchen
and
Dining
Layout