commercial kitchen energy conservationCommercial kitchen energy conservation has become more important than ever. Did you know that restaurants use about 5 to 7 times more energy per square foot than other types of commercial buildings? This isn’t a big surprise, considering the amount of heating, cooling, cleaning, and energy intensive equipment that goes into a commercial kitchen.

Even though energy consumption is an inevitable part of commercial cooking operation, it doesn’t mean that there aren’t ways to reduce the environmental impact of your kitchen (and save some money on utility bills in the process)!

These are just five of the many steps you can take to make your kitchen more energy-efficient:

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For most foodservice Overlooked commercial kitchen hazardsoperators, what happens on the roof, is a distant concern to the daily challenges happening on ground level and there are a number of commonly overlooked commercial kitchen hazards.

It’s understandable considering all the issues there are to deal with – staffing, food prep, customers, maintenance, purchasing, food cost control…the list goes on and on. And as the hustle and chaos goes on in the kitchen, there is often a quiet and costly hazard being overlooked on the roof: grease discharge from the upblast exhaust fan.

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