Commercial Kitchen

Restaurant HVAC: 7 Ways to Find a Better Service Provider

May 18, 2023 by Michael C. Rosone
Categories: Commercial HVAC, Commercial Installations, Commercial Kitchen, Commercial Refrigeration

In the restaurant business, maintaining comfortable conditions is a must. It’s never okay for your dining room to be too hot, cold or humid. You can’t have equipment noise disturbing your customers. You can’t have drafts or kitchen smells being pulled into the dining room by a poorly-functioning restaurant HVAC system.

These problems cause you to lose customers and impact your bottom line. If your service provider makes you wait days, sends technicians that can’t fix the problem, or problems keep coming back, it’s time to find a better option.

Read on for some advice about choosing a new service provider you can trust with your restaurant HVAC system.

Ice Machine Cleaning Could Save Your Restaurant

January 12, 2023 by Michael C. Rosone
Categories: Commercial Kitchen, Commercial Refrigeration

Food safety must be a primary concern for every NYC restaurant owner. If it wasn’t, you wouldn’t stay in business very long. The consequences of serving potentially dangerous food are serious, not only to your patrons’ health, but also for your business:

Poor health inspection grades
Negative reviews on social media and in the press
Lawsuits and even financial damages

That’s why you’re vigilant about enforcing safe food handling and keeping your kitchen clean. But there’s a food safety danger in your restaurant that’s hiding in plain sight: your ice machine.

Your Ice Machine: The Most Dangerous Item in Your Restaurant

February 17, 2015 by Michael C. Rosone
Categories: Commercial Kitchen, Commercial Refrigeration

Food safety has to be a primary concern on the mind of every NYC restaurant owner. If it wasn’t, you wouldn’t stay in business very long. The consequences of serving potentially dangerous food are serious, not only to your patrons’ health, but also for your business:

poor health inspection grades
negative reviews on social media and in the press
lawsuits and even financial damages

All of these consequences will erode your customer base and eventually put you out of business. As a successful restaurant owner or manager, you already know this, and you’re certainly vigilant about enforcing safe food handling and keeping your kitchen clean. But there’s a food safety danger in your restaurant that’s hiding in plain sight: your ice machine.

NYC: Surviving the Heat is Like Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse

July 21, 2022 by Michael C. Rosone
Categories: Commercial HVAC, Commercial Kitchen, Preventive Maintenance Agreements, Residential HVAC

Surviving the heat in NYC: 5 ways you’re doing it wrong.

When NYC’s temperatures flirt with triple digits, it can feel like there’s no way surviving the heat in your sweltering office or apartment is even possible. Surviving a zombie apocalypse seems a whole lot easier. Well, as it turns out, we can learn a lot about surviving the heat from the best scientific tips about what to do (and what not to do) when facing a legion of reanimated corpses.

Surviving the heat in NYC, like surviving a zombie apocalypse, requires that you know what you’re doing and have the proper plan in place. Here’s what you are almost certainly doing wrong, and how to change your ways so you don’t get eaten alive by the summer heat and humidity.

5 Essential Tips for Choosing a Commercial Kitchen Exhaust Hood

March 10, 2022 by Michael C. Rosone
Categories: Commercial HVAC, Commercial Installations, Commercial Kitchen

Air flow is really important for your restaurant kitchen

If you’re setting up a restaurant kitchen for the first time, or even renovating an existing kitchen, you probably don’t have to do much research to choose your kitchen’s cooking appliances. After all, food is your thing. Changes are you have known exactly what you want for a long time. But what about your commercial kitchen exhaust hood?

Air flow is probably not your thing. And when you start to research your options, you quickly discover that there’s a lot more to it than you thought. So here’s a quick primer that can help you choose the commercial kitchen exhaust hood that’s perfect for your food service establishment.

Top 10 Restaurant Kitchen Design Ideas & Tips

February 10, 2022 by Michael C. Rosone
Categories: Commercial Air Conditioning, Commercial HVAC, Commercial Installations, Commercial Kitchen, Commercial Refrigeration

Looking for restaurant kitchen design ideas? You’ve come to the right place.

Arista has done restaurant HVAC, refrigeration and kitchen equipment repair for many years (decades, really) so we’ve been involved in countless restaurant startups and renovations. In the process, we’ve learned quite a few useful tips. Here goes!

Commercial Kitchen

Surviving the heat in NYC: 5 ways you’re doing it wrong.

Air flow is really important for your restaurant kitchen

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