Cutting machine for food

A cutting machine for cutting slices of in particular strand-shaped cutting material, comprising:

• a machine housing;
• a drive motor;
• a cutting blade, driven in rotation by the drive motor in a cutting plane, configured to cut off slices;
• a stop plate, displaceable parallel to the cutting plane, configured to set a desired slice thickness;
• a carriage, movable back and forth parallel to the cutting plane, having a supporting plate and a bearing wall, the supporting plate and the bearing wall forming a holding device for the cutting material, the carriage comprising a pivoting device configured to move the supporting plate between a starting position and a pivoted-up position, the supporting plate in the starting position and in the pivoted-up position forming a right angle with the cutting plane;
• and
• a fixing plate arranged orthogonal to the supporting plate and being rigidly connected to the supporting plate, the fixing plate comprising a slotted link, the slotted link comprising at least two slots for a fixing element.