All the expertise around the purchase, none of the cost.
You don't buy from us — your dealer handles that, the way it always has. What you get from Zink is everything around the purchase: a team that listens first, kitchens and showrooms where you can test on your own menu, and solutions built across kitchen equipment, tabletop and smallwares, and furniture, from one team. Funded by our manufacturers. Free to you.
New to working with a rep? Here's how it works — and why it costs you nothing →
Test before you invest.
Cook your menu in our culinary centers. Sit in the chairs, hold the china in our showrooms. Confidence comes from testing, not spec sheets.
One answer, not five pitches.
We build across brands — the spec, the sizing, the workflow, the combination — as one coordinated solution instead of competing sales calls.
We're still here after install.
Spec questions, service, the next project — the same people answer the phone. We're employee-owned, so everyone answers for the outcome.
Eight kitchens, zero pressure.
Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, Louisville, Milwaukee — cook your menu on the platforms you're considering before a dollar is committed.
Explore the culinary centers →Put your own numbers in.
All planning tools →Free calculators built on published manufacturer data — no forms, no cost, and every answer ends with a person who can check it.
FREE TOOL
How many seats fit the room?
Square footage and service style to a comfortable capacity and a table mix.
FREE TOOL
How many place settings?
Seats and dish cycle through the formula our tabletop team uses.
FREE TOOL
Your opening, worked backward
The eight decision windows that protect an opening date.
FREE TOOL
Something's down — who to call first
Manufacturer service, dealer, or Zink: one question, the right door.
Written for this side of the table.
All insights →Written for the person who has to run it.
FROM INSIGHTS
What does a manufacturer rep cost you?
A manufacturer rep costs the operator nothing. Manufacturers pay rep commissions on what sells. Here is how the money actually works.
FROM INSIGHTS
Where to test equipment before buying
Test commercial kitchen equipment at a rep firm's culinary center before you buy. Zink runs eight across the Great Lakes. Testing costs you nothing.
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Rep, dealer or manufacturer: who sells you equipment?
Who actually sells you commercial kitchen equipment? Learn what reps, dealers, and manufacturers each do, and where your purchase order really goes.
FROM INSIGHTS
Cook your own menu on it first
Why operators cook their own menu on equipment before buying: demo food proves the unit works, your food proves it works for you. Testing costs nothing.
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Where next?
You'll never buy from us. That's the point.
Test the equipment, keep your dealer, pay nothing for any of it. The only thing we ask for is the conversation.