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Cutlery Rental Service

With Nella Bros., cutlery rental service, you need not worry about the cutlery used in your kitchen. We supply any type or amount of knives an establishment may need, and on a weekly basis our drivers will come in and exchange these knives for sharpened and sanitized duplicates.

For customers outside of our delivery area, we now offer online cutlery rental from ShipSharp.com! Have your cutlery shipped to you direct, with no deposit! Click here for more details about ShipSharp.com!

Questions and Answers:

Why should I rent my knives?

Answer: Because it is cost effective. When the knives in your kitchen become dull, your Staff can no longer work at their peak level of quality and efficiency. Much of their time can be wasted trying to sharpen the knives they use. They cannot, contrary to what some believe, sharpen their own knives effectively. Grinding cutlery properly, as with all other trades, requires skill and equipment. We’re sure your chefs are paid to produce excellent food, not waste time and energy on sharpening knives. If your own knife is broken or lost, it must be replaced at your own expense. With our rental service, every reasonable effort is made to replace lost or broken cutlery at no expense to the customer.

When my knives get dull I just buy new ones.

We hear this from the small percentage of establishments who do not subscribe to our rental service. The facts of the matter are these. The first 25% of a knife blade is the thinnest. Therefore one can, for a short time rub these knives on stones and make them cut. That is until the blade starts getting thick. It becomes tougher and tougher to make these knives cut and usually out of frustration, they are replaced with new ones. New Quality cutlery is expensive. When knives need to be replaced two or three times per year, it no longer pays to buy them. Keep in mind also; these knives will never be, on a consistent basis, as sharp as the knives from our rental service. Most major supermarket and restaurant chains nationwide subscribe to knife rental services for this reason.

I’m afraid the chef’s will get cut if I give them sharp knives.

Again, this is something we hear often when actually the opposite is true. A dull knife causes you to use more force than you normally would. The edge also tends to slide off the food you are trying to cut. The combination of these two factors leads to many unnecessary injuries. When a knife cuts smoothly and cleanly, you immediately respect it for what it is, a sharp, clean cutting tool.