Proper Preventive Maintenance Starts With Being aware of Your Restaurant Equipment
Numerous weeks ago, I was forced to replace an incredibly costly piece of gear at my bistro. A convection oven that I inherited together with the creating all of a sudden stopped operating. I named a repair service and the machinery medics were quickly dispatched. Sadly, the news was grim... I would need to have to buy a replacement unit. The technicians that came out were unable to repair it. In fact, they had no thought why the unit had failed, only that they would not have the ability to repair it. I contacted my restaurant gear supplier, who, it turns out, had sold the now defunct unit towards the preceding owner. When I told him concerning the old unit and that I would need a replacement, I anticipated him to be ecstatic, knowing complete well that my wallet was about to take a significant hit. Instead, he shocked me by asking me a series of concerns in regards to the old unit.
With his assist more than the telephone, we had been in a position to get the unit up and operating in about twenty minutes. That's fairly remarkable, I feel. The problem was induced by a lack preventive maintenance measures to the oven. We had been under the impression that we had been taking appropriate care of it, even though in truth, I in no way bothered to verify and see if there was far more that we necessary to be performing in the method of preventive upkeep.
A couple of days later, I got a letter from my gear supplier, with specs on every single piece of gear in my restaurant, together with the required preventive upkeep measures that I must take with each 1. The majority of those I currently knew about, but there were a couple of I was unaware of. Considering that I received the letter, my staff has been performing all the advised preventative maintenance measures and we genuinely notice a distinction on the pieces of gear we had been neglecting to take suitable care of.
Preventive upkeep is essential in the restaurant business, specially with all the price of replacing an expensive unit. The only way to take proper care of the gear, nonetheless, is always to know it nicely enough to understand what preventive upkeep measures demands to become performed. I am grateful to my gear supplier for helping me to recognize that.
