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How to Evaluate Commercial HVAC & Refrigeration Maintenance Agreements

by Michael C. Rosone |

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For food service businesses, keeping mission-critical HVAC & Refrigeration equipment in good condition with regular maintenance helps reduce operating costs and prevent business disruption. With commercial HVAC & refrigeration maintenance agreements, you get the best price and a trusted service partner to support your business.

Maintenance agreements (also called service contracts) come in different types and have a wide range of prices. It can be challenging to figure out which one is right for your needs.

Here’s everything you need to know to choose the best HVAC & Refrigeration maintenance agreements for your business.

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Who takes care of corporate cafeteria equipment maintenance?

by Michael C. Rosone |

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If you have outsourced management of your corporate cafeteria, there’s one aspect that may be a gray area: who is responsible for cafeteria equipment maintenance? Is it your cafeteria management company or your facilities management team? If you’re not sure who’s taking care of it, the answer might be nobody.

If kitchen and refrigeration equipment maintenance is neglected, that’s going to increase your costs and reduce the quality of service. Learn more about what needs to be done, and the risks of letting those tasks fall through the cracks.

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10 Restaurant KPIs + One Easy Way to Improve Them

by Michael C. Rosone |

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If you’re serious about maximizing the success of your restaurant(s), you’re tracking restaurant KPIs to learn where you need to make changes to improve service and boost profitability. 

Here’s an easy and relatively inexpensive change that pays off across your operation: invest in regular HVAC & refrigeration maintenance. HVAC maintenance improves the comfort of your dining room, making customers more likely to spend more and visit again. Refrigeration maintenance impacts food costs, safety, and quality. 

Here are 10 restaurant KPIs you’re probably tracking, and how maintenance can improve your performance.

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Commercial Refrigeration Maintenance: Summer Tuneups Prevent Meltdowns

by Michael C. Rosone |

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If you’re a food service manager in charge of commercial refrigeration maintenance for your restaurant, chances are you’re having this recurring nightmare:

Your commercial kitchen is bustling, yet you have this feeling of impending doom. You look around for the source of the problem, but everything looks normal.

Then you suddenly realize… your refrigerated display case was making funny noises yesterday. You head over there at a run. The light is out. There’s no more funny noise; now it’s deathly quiet.

And your buttercream is drooping and melting like an ice cream cone on a hot day. NOOOOOOO!

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5 Ways to Stop Negative Reviews of Your Restaurant

by Michael C. Rosone |

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Negative reviews of your restaurant can be a frustrating problem. Especially when you have a great chef and you know the food is good. Yet there are still people writing negative reviews and giving you only a couple of stars on Yelp.

What’s going on? And how can you put a stop to it?

Many restaurant owners are very conscientious about the quality of the food (and rightly so), yet don’t pay as much attention to the dining atmosphere. This is a mistake, especially in New York City, where there is so much competition. It doesn’t take much for an unhappy customer to choose the restaurant around the corner next time.

A great dining experience is not only about the food. There are many additional factors that can make or break a customer’s experience. If you want to put a stop to negative reviews, it pays to fix these issues once and for all.

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What You Need to Know About Refrigerant Safety and Your HVAC System

by Michael C. Rosone |

If It’s Bad for the Ozone Layer, It’s Bad for You.

If you’re a facility manager, you may think all you need to know about your air conditioning system is that it’s working properly. If the building is cool, why worry about how that happens?

The reason you should be concerned is that refrigerants, the chemicals in your air conditioner that actually do the cooling, can pose a serious threat to your building’s occupants (not to mention the planet’s ozone layer) if not handled properly.

It’s important to understand the potential dangers posed by refrigerants so you make sure to hire only qualified technicians to work on your air conditioning system, and so that you take precautions to prevent any accidents from occurring in your building.Read More

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