Hi Mike:
No we have not tested the new Q oven
I do not use equipment. I just report for the consideration of this forum what the operators we have contact with tell us. Rarely Has an oven that did not perform well been worked over by a successor company and then they performed acceptably. If the basic concept is flawed all the tweaking and changing of peripheral components rarely overcomes the basic fault.
Case in point is the Lincoln X 2 oven. That was originally designed by the Wolfe Electric company and sold as the E-flow oven. Wolfe decided that the basic concept was flawed but an industrial engineering firm picked up the patent. They did a great deal of re engineering and offered the units for sale. Unfortunately they did not change the basic operating principle, sold a bunch of them to a second level chain and had to buy them back. That outfit gave up but Lincoln thought they could make it work. Lincoln purchased the design and re engendered the unit and offered it for sale. Again the basic system remained the same and the oven has been a flop. I do not think Lincoln is still offering it for sale.
Just not to create a false impression, XLT is not the only oven we sell, we are Lincoln, Blodgett Bakers Pride dealers. Virtually all oven manufactures have offered us dealerships and if we placed an order with them they would sell us ovens.The exception is Middleby who despite us being their top dealer for almost 20 years dropped us and the few other dealers and now sell direct.
We Have several chain accounts that are regularly buying the XLT ovens from us mostly in conjunction with the entire store package and we have sold many XLT ovens to individual Clients. Every buyer is, apparently, very happy with the units. We have had only good reports from buyers.
The XLT 32 70 Has a 32 in wide belt the 38 70 has a 38 in wide belt. As to the Middleby 360 -670 they are all together different ovens 360 ovens are smaller and are a very different configuration but the basic operating principals are the same.
I mentioned A few major chains because they are hi volume operators and put tremendous strain on all their equipment. They would not be using the XLT if they were not getting outstanding performance.
You ask about XLT pricing The factory requests that we do not publicly advertise our price. Sufficient to say here that the double set we discussed we sell for close to half the price of the ovens you mentioned and that includes a 5 year warranty as opposed to a 2 year.
If the Q oven folks have a great product they should be able to sell it to one of the top chains, Those outfits have the capability to put an oven through the wringer and find out if the equipment is capable of producing the product they want and is capable of taking th strains they put upon it.
Every Manufacture talks a great game, few can prove all there claims. A high volume operation testing a unit for several months can determine the veracity of their claims.
George Mills