Restaurant meals vary from haute cuisine to soup and salad, so your menu will determine the individual pieces and combinations of equipment that you will need for food preparation, cooking, refrigeration, storage, sanitation, food warming and holding and bar service. You can choose from both new and used equipment and many start-up commercial kitchens have a mixture of the two. If you have an assortment of equipment of different brands and origins, it is important to make sure that they can handle a similar volume of food production or 'through put' so that you do not get bottlenecks in the production flow of your kitchen.