Hendi Serving Tongs

Serving tongs help restaurant, hotel, café and catering teams transfer food from preparation vessels to plates and service dishes. SIA La RONDE’s range includes universal stainless steel tongs, silicone and PVC-handled options, colour-coded serving tongs and a dedicated toasted-bread accessory. Choose by the food, working reach and cleaning routine required at each station.

Equipment and tasks

Universal stainless steel tongs suit routine plating and buffet service, allowing staff to transfer portions without direct hand contact. The available lengths provide different reaches: a more compact tong works well for close serving, while a longer one helps when food sits deeper in a dish. Silicone combined with stainless steel gives a less rigid contact surface, useful when a gentler grip is appropriate for the food being moved.

The range also includes stainless steel tongs with black PVC handles and serving tongs in purple or red. Colour provides a quick visual cue when a team assigns utensils to stations and returns them after use. For toasted bread, a separate stainless steel accessory is intended for toaster 262214. Its role is distinct from general serving tongs, giving staff a dedicated utensil for handling toast at that appliance.

Parameters in use

Reach affects the working position at a pass or buffet. The 300 mm tong gives staff extra distance from the food, which can help when serving from deeper vessels. A 310 mm universal stainless steel tong offers greater reach for food placed farther inside a container. A shorter tong keeps the hand closer to the serving area, which can be convenient for direct transfers where extended reach is unnecessary.

Cleaning requirements differ between models and should shape close-down practice. The silicone and stainless steel tongs and the black PVC-handled option are suitable for dishwasher cleaning. The purple stainless steel and PVC tong must be hand cleaned, as must the red serving tong. The toasted-bread accessory is dishwasher-safe and described as resistant to temperature changes, supporting its use around freshly toasted food.

Choosing a product

Begin with the food and the position of the serving vessel. For general plating, choose a universal stainless steel tong with a reach suited to the station. Consider the silicone model when a less rigid contact surface is useful, or the PVC-handled version when that handle construction suits the task. Colour-coded options can help organise utensils visually within the kitchen’s existing food-handling practice.

For toast, choose the accessory intended for toaster 262214 rather than a general serving tong. Its dimensions are 100 × 340 × 64 mm and it weighs 0.25 kg, useful details when identifying the item and accounting for it in storage. Include cleaning in the selection: machine-washable models fit a dishwasher routine, while the purple and red tongs require hand cleaning. Match the tool to the work and the team’s cleaning process.