How Knife Leasing Can Make sense
We provide rental services on premium knives for residential and commercial clientele. Some people aren’t familiar with knife rental, and wonder why it would make sense for them or their business. Below we’ll highlight how knife leasing can make sense for businesses – And for home users.
Quality edges means quality of life for home and commercial kitchens
We want your knives to stay sharp
We offer innovative ways to lease knives for commercial kitchens, food service industry companies and home chef’s.
- Better total value
- Consumer oriented perks for real ROI
- Better quality knives than the competition
- Custom tailored plans – not just cookie cutter knife rental plans
- Serialized program to ensure knives are shipped, sharpened, and retired properly
Value and ROI matter in Knives
We want to change Knife Leasing
Knife leasing as a concept is INCREDIBLE. Knife leasing as an industry, left a lot to be desired. We thought we could help make it a better experience and help commercial kitchens and residential cooks enjoy the benefits of knife rental more.
We proudly offer our services as THE STANDARD to help reinvigorate the market. We believe the way we present knife leasing and commercial knife servicing programs makes more sense than any other industry provider. We also believe that knife leasing with our company allows residential users the type of value that commercial kitchens get from kitchen knife sharpening services. Read through the following information to see if our services and products might make sense for you.
Does Knife Leasing make sense for Food Establishments?
A Kitchen Knife Sharpening Program is a must have – if you prefer to work on your core competency rather than spending hours a month sharpening knives. But how can leased knives from an overall perspective make sense for food industry companies?
Kitchen Knife Sharpening program for Restaurants
As a small or medium sized restaurant, kitchen knives is not the business you’re in. You are a purveyor of food for patrons with your unique style and flavors. If you’re spending more than 10 hours a month sharpening knives or are spending more than several hundred dollars a year in replacement knives, your bills are stacking up against you.
This is even more true if your kitchen staff isn’t using their own knives. Some cook staff prefer to bring their own knife roll and tooling – especially in the craft or artisan style restaurants. But for establishments where you are the sole provider of tooling – you need to take a hard look at costs from an all in perspective.
Yes you can go cheap on knives and re-sharpen a lot, or pay an hourly wage to a local service. There are some savings potential there. But you don’t get the same advantages of a knife leasing program from a tax perspective; or a minimization of liability and improved efficiency perspective.
Additionally, you can get higher quality knives with a leasing program, while getting the same depreciation advantages of a lease, relative to up front capital expenditures and the high cost of routine maintenance.
With knife leasing for restaurants, you get continually new knives without the wastage and breakage that come from in-house sharpening and maintenance programs.
Likelihood of injury goes down. Interruption in prep cycles goes down. Coverage for your people in spikes of volume improves your bottom line.
And, you get the leasing advantages, and the flexibility of changing your subscriptions – something you cannot do with hard purchases up front and ongoing maintenance. Our labor costs are capped within our sharpening service programs too, so you aren’t paying a local service provider based on cost of living increases or getting ghosted on services when they find a client willing to pay them more.
WE offer exceptional Value for all our customers
Our Mission
To provide you with substantially better knives and knife maintenance than is possible without our services – at a cost that makes sense for serious chefs.
Innovation in knife leasing
We don’t make the knives. We only source premium offerings. We prioritize customer service. We offer real value over the long-term on multiple fronts:
- You never have to use knives that are past their useful service life, either from an edge sharpness perspective or from too many sharpening’s
- Unlike other knife rental programs, we offer premium name-brands as options
- Our standard service plan far exceeds the value of our competitors
- We send better quality and more of it with each order
- We maximize efficiency with the right logistics and customer service options
Our Promise
We will always maximize value wherever possible. We offer discounts to residential consumers that don’t need sharpening as often – so you get ROI. For commercial clientele: you never have to use knives that have been sharpened down past where it’s safe or easily usable. We replace knives on an ongoing basis and test for edge retention on a serialized basis. That means we know which knives have been sharpened how many times – and we retire knives to keep you safe, and efficiently working in the kitchen.
Our Process
We send out more knives than you need. Our normal packages all have excess tooling, to ensure you can have coverage for knives you are leasing. You own the knife in the sense that we always ensure you get a knife that is top quality. You don’t have the burden of owning the knife, in the sense that we do the maintenance and we ensure you always have fresh tools to cook and prep with.
Can a Knife Leasing service work for Butcher shops, grocery stores, & specialty food related companies?
Butchers, slaughterhouses, specialty meat purveyors, grocery stores and specialty shops are fantastic partners for a knife rental and Kitchen Knife Resharpening Service.
This is because they can leverage our specialty of sharpening and strategic implementation to leverage their own sweet spot on labor and production workflows.
Butchers cut meat. They should know how to run a blade over a steel, but with the right partner, they don’t have to always rely on the local sharpening service. Or worse, have to sharped dozens of knives a day/week/month. Backup knives on demand, and significant coverage for butchers means quick work, and fewer wage hours all-in. This is true of a small operation, but even more important in a large scale butchery or slaughterhouse operation.
Grocery stores have a lot of shifts to cover, and it’s hit and miss how employees are treating the equipment. Having to wait on sharpening services can be painstaking. It can mean scheduling nightmares, and poor customer support on the meat case. With so many sets of employees, you need overage on edged tooling. We do that.
Can a Knife Rental program work for a residential home chef?
Absolutely! A knife lease or rental program can work for a home chef. Here are some strategic advantages:
- You can access higher quality knives for the same yearly costs as buying and maintaining poor quality knives and get the benefit of never having to sharpen them
- Always sharp guarantee – you have double coverage for your main knives, and can get sharpening for free on the interval that you need
- You don’t have a knife drawer full of knives you don’t use – you get exactly what you want and can minimize waste
- You pay a small amount that hits significantly lower than the once or twice a year sharpening fees – not to mention the high upfront costs of good knives
- We can custom tailor everything you want – and you can grow with your knives – as you get better and need more sophisticated offerings, we can get you outfitted properly
- Your exposure to risk, and time/effort is minimal
- There is no worry about dull knives
- We have subscription perks and discount your costs if you use certain parts of our service less than the average user
- We can handle increases in your needs on the fly, and can get you new or different tooling as needed
- Knife leasing subscriptions are awesome for those who are in college, need gifts, or are moving frequently or traveling for work because the subscription changes and adjusts as they need
- As a gift, it’s incredibly thoughtful, because it indulges a passion for them, while providing practical value, and at a low total cost for the gift giver