Commercial Kitchen

A new page for the website. Have a read and tell us what needs improving.

0 of 11 saves as you go

Page title and Google listing

stripdoors.com.au/industry/commercial-kitchen/
Strip Curtains for Commercial Kitchens | Strip Doors
Heavy-duty PVC strip curtains for commercial kitchens. Zone your prep areas, hold cool room temperature, and take constant trolley traffic.

This is roughly how the page will look in Google.

Does this describe the page properly?

Opening

Heavy-duty PVC that takes constant trolley traffic. Zone your prep areas, hold your cool room temperature, and keep the whole kitchen working.

Strip Curtains for Commercial Kitchens

Heavy-duty PVC that takes constant trolley traffic. Zone your prep areas, hold your cool room temperature, and keep the whole kitchen working.

Order Your Strip DoorRequest a Free Quote

Right headline, photo and buttons?

The Challenge for Commercial Kitchens

A production kitchen runs like a production line. Deliveries land at one end, product moves through prep and cooking, and finished food goes out the other, with trolleys and staff crossing between zones all day.

Solid doors do not survive that traffic. They get propped open within a week because nobody can open them with a full Cambro in each hand, and once they are propped your temperature zoning is gone.

That matters for more than energy bills. Separating raw from ready-to-eat is a basic HACCP control, and holding cold storage at temperature is a requirement under Standard 3.2.2.

Does this match what commercial kitchens actually deal with?

How Strip Curtains Solve It

Strip curtains give you a barrier your staff cannot defeat. There is nothing to prop open, so the zoning you designed on the floor plan is the zoning you still have in eighteen months.

They also work where a door will not fit. Wide openings and open-plan production areas can be partitioned with a run of strips, which is how you zone a space that was never built with a doorway in it.

Specify by traffic, not by room. 3mm in 300mm width for goods-in and main thoroughfares, 3mm ribbed Polarflex for cold storage, and 5mm where a pallet truck goes through.

  • Cannot be propped: The barrier stays closed because there is nothing to wedge
  • Hands-free: Staff push through with trolleys and full arms
  • Zoning: Separate raw from ready-to-eat without building a wall
  • Cold storage: Cool room and freezer hold temperature between openings
  • Wash-down: Stainless fittings take commercial cleaning chemicals
Are the specs right?

Where Strip Curtains Go in a Commercial Kitchen

By commercial kitchen we mean a production kitchen: caterers, function centres, hotels, hospitals, aged care, schools and central production kitchens. A kitchen like that is zones rather than rooms, so think about it as a flow from goods-in to dispatch.

Floor plan of a commercial kitchen showing where strip curtains go: 3mm in 300mm width at goods-in, 3mm ribbed Polarflex Freezer grade on the cool room and freezer, 3mm partitioning the production area, and clear or a colour at dispatch where finished food leaves
1

Goods in · Delivery door or dock

3mm in 300mm width

Goods-in takes your heaviest and widest traffic. Pallet trolleys, stacked crates and delivery drivers all come through here, often with the door open for long stretches. Wider strips overlap more, so the seal survives the battering.

2

Cool room and freezer · Cold storage

3mm ribbed, Polarflex Freezer grade

This is the door that pays for itself fastest. Every opening dumps cold air and makes the compressor work to recover it. Ribbed PVC stops the strips sticking together in the damp cold, which matters when the door cycles all service.

3

Production zoning · Within the kitchen

3mm in 300mm width

You can partition a space that has no doorway. A run of strips separates raw prep from ready-to-eat, or walls off a production line inside a bigger room. It is the cheapest way to create a zone you did not build.

4

Dispatch · Where finished food leaves

Clear, or a colour if the public can see it

Every kitchen has a point where food leaves. That might be a servery hatch, a trolley bay for ward or room service, or a door onto a loading bay for vans. Use clear so staff can see through, and a colour only where the public can see in.

Forklift or motorised pallet truck through the opening?

Step up to 5mm. It comes in 150mm or 300mm, flat surface only, and it takes the knocks that would tear 3mm over time.

We built this from how you described a facility layout, not from a specific conversation about kitchens. Does it hold up?

Recommended Products for Commercial Kitchens

These match the four zones above. Prices exclude delivery and were taken from the live catalogue on 20 August 2026.

DoorwayProductPrice
Goods in and production zoningClear PVC Roll 3mm x 300mm Ribbed, 50m$617.10
Cool room and freezerClear PVC Roll 3mm x 150mm Ribbed Polarflex Freezer, 50m$325.60
Kitchen to serveryRed PVC Roll 2mm x 200mm Flat, 50m$310.20
Forklift or pallet truck openingsClear PVC Roll 5mm x 300mm Flat, 50m$935.00
Are these the products you would recommend?

Customer quote

Couldn't recommend Maurice and the team at strip doors more. From initial quote to install, the experience was fantastic. Excellent products from an even better team. All for a reasonable price.
Ruby Kemp, Google review
OK to use this one?

Questions and answers

What thickness do I need for a commercial kitchen?

Use 3mm as your default. It handles constant trolley traffic and insulates well enough for cold storage. Step up to 5mm only where a forklift or motorised pallet truck comes through, and drop to 2mm on light internal doorways.

Can I use strip curtains to separate raw and ready-to-eat areas?

Yes, and it is one of the more useful things they do. A run of strips creates a physical zone in an open space, which supports the separation your HACCP plan asks for. It is not a substitute for a wall where one is required, so check your plan.

Will they stand up to commercial cleaning chemicals?

The stainless steel hook-on head sections and plates do. Stainless is used precisely because kitchens get washed down with aggressive chemicals. The PVC itself should be cleaned with warm soapy water or a food-safe sanitiser rather than solvents.

How wide an opening can a strip curtain cover?

There is no practical limit. Wide openings and open-plan production areas are covered with a continuous run of strips on a head section, which is how the production partitions in our photo gallery are built.

How do I stop trolleys damaging the strips?

Use wider strips and protect the opening. 300mm strips take a trolley strike better than narrow ones, and bollards either side of a goods-in doorway stop the head section taking a direct hit.

Can individual strips be replaced?

Yes. Strips unhook individually from the stainless steel head section, so a torn one near the trolley line comes off and gets replaced without taking the whole curtain down.

Do you deliver to regional areas?

Yes, we ship Australia-wide. Delivery costs are calculated at checkout based on your location and the size of your order.

Are all these answers correct?

Getting Started

We make strip curtains for commercial kitchens to order, cut to your opening sizes and shipped Australia-wide. Start with cold storage and goods-in, because those two carry the most traffic and the most cost.

Send us your opening measurements and tell us what goes through each one. We will tell you what gauge to run where.

Order Your Strip DoorRequest a Free Quote

Is this the right note to finish on?

Questions we need you to answer

These are the things we could not confirm ourselves. The page cannot go live until they are sorted.

Are these the right four products for a commercial kitchen?

Our pick from the verified range, not yours. The 5mm x 300mm at $935 is the most expensive thing we have recommended on any page, so worth a look.

What are the production-area photos actually of? We have captioned them as a food production facility.

The stainless tanks suggest a brewery or beverage plant rather than a commercial kitchen. We have not claimed it is a kitchen, but if you can tell us the site we can caption it properly.

Have we drawn the line in the right place between this page and the Restaurant & Café page?

We have scoped this one as production kitchens: caterers, function centres, hotels, hospitals, aged care, schools. A restaurant’s own kitchen is covered on the Restaurant page instead, because that is where the dining-room boundary belongs. If you think of them as one thing we should merge them.

Do you get asked about wash-up and dish areas? Steam migration seems an obvious fit but we have nothing on it.

We left it out rather than guess. If it is a real application we should add a fifth zone.

Are you comfortable with us saying strip curtains support raw and ready-to-eat separation under HACCP?

We have worded it carefully and added that it is not a substitute for a wall. But it is a compliance claim, so we want you to sign it off.

Is the refrigerated truck work a use case in its own right? It is in the gallery but has no page.

You mentioned the Coles vans on the call as steady recurring work. There are photos of truck installs in the folder and nothing on the site about it.

Is there a commercial kitchen, hotel or catering customer who would give us a quote?

The testimonial is a genuine Google review that mentions quote-to-install, so it reads like a project. But it does not say commercial kitchen.

That's everything

Press send and it comes straight to Hilary. Nothing is sent until you do.

Your answers save in this browser as you go, so you can close the tab and come back. Stick to the same device.