Extraordinary Products

Look at each of these products and ideas.

These are extraordinary products and ideas that could or will save you thousands of dollars.

Non Breakable Walk-ins

If you have been in the restaurant business for any period of time, you have seen those times when your walk in goes down. What happens when it does? It’s usually on a Friday or Saturday night and then it seems impossible to find a technician to come fast enough before you lose product. And then to add insult to injury, the service company you do find charges you overtime or double time and seems to take forever to get the darn thing fixed.

The bottom line is, that when it is an emergency it seems like it always costs more than when it is not an emergency.

What would it be like if you had a walk in refrigerator that would never break? IS there such a thing? What if it is an energy saving machine at the same time?

This is possible and here is how.

But I recommend that before you go any further, please see if you can take a minute and go back to the home page and read the section “Best Equipment 2 Buy”

The concept for an unbreakable walk in is actually pretty simple and your existing walk in can be retrofit to make it into an unbreakable unit also.

Today, when we build new walk in regulators we install two separate complete independent cooling systems. As a result several good things happen.

These cooling systems are staged to turn on at different times. Because of this, this represents and energy savings because the second unit will only come on during peak demand periods. The other benefit is that in the event of a malfunction, one system will be good enough to prevent you from losing product in the refrigerator.

Having two systems also means that during the winter, when the outside temperatures are cooler, usually only 1 of the 2 systems will be on at one time.

This is a great system and a great idea. It is really true that the cheapest equipment in the world to buy is that equipment that either never breaks or is cheap and fast to repair. This system for construction of new walk in refrigerators and modification of existing walk in refrigerators is exactly that.

So let me leave you with a question. What is the greatest value of the products in your walk in freezers or refrigerators? Consider this. If this system prevented you from losing all your product just once it would easily pay for its cost compared to the cost of a conventional system. And as preciously mentioned, if you have a second system that will continue to operate during malfunction of the first, chances are very good that this system will be enough to get you by over the weekend eliminating the need for overtime labor and allowing your repair vendor to get better prices on the parts required to do the job.

When you are ready, call us at our home office in San Antonio Texas at 210 520-6640 and we will send a representative from your local market and give you a free estimate or just look at your proposed job at a no cost or obligation basis.

Refrigeration Alarms

What is the greatest amount of money in terms of product that you normally keep in your walk in refrigerators or walk in freezers? What happens if you are closed and your walk in goes up to 60 or 70 degrees? How much will it cost you if you lose product?

If you have been in the restaurant business for any period of time, you have seen those times when your refrigeration goes out. What happens when it does? It is usually on a Friday or Saturday night and then it seems impossible to find a technician to come fast enough before you lose product. And then to add insult to injury, the service company you do find charges you overtime or double time and seems to take forever to get the darn thing fixed.

The bottom line is, that when it is an emergency it seems like it always costs more than when it is not an emergency.

Today there are solid state devices that can monitor the temperature in any of your refrigerators 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And the best part is that if it drops below a certain specified point, your refrigerator will make a phone call to 5 of your people and tell them the current temperature.

This device does not require a dedicated telephone line. We can connect to an existing line with no problem what so ever. The system will continually redial if the line is busy.

With this system, you have more time to find the right technician, the right service company and more of a chance to control costs. There is a big difference in your availability of service options if your walk in freezer is 20 degrees compared to, if it is 50 degrees. The colder it is, the longer you have to effectively deal with the problem and the more potential you have for saving money.

If you decide to have The Restaurant Repair Company install one of these devices for you, we will provide one of our 24 hour numbers for the device so that if anything does happen, we will be immediately alerted and respond within the hour to your problem.

Why take chances?

When you are ready, call us at our home office in San Antonio Texas at 210 520-6640 and we will send a representative from your local market.

Next Generation Security Cameras:

Unfortunately for all employers, it is sad to say that many times we have to guard against theft from our very own employees. If meat and liquor are going out the back door, this is costing you money. If all the money is not being put in the register, this too is a tremendous loss causing food and labor costs to look higher than they actually are.

Today security cameras have come a long way. Cameras can be completely hidden so no one can ever see them. Cameras can be half hidden and some can be exposed so if there is an employee who knows where the camera is pointing, he may not know there are 5 other cameras they cannot see.

Cameras today are so small that most people never even notice them except for the thieves. No matter where a thief is, on your side of the counter or the customer side, these people know what to look for and when they see a camera in your business, it tells them they are being watched and probably being recorded.

Cameras can shut down at closing and automatically come back on if there is any motion in the store or if glass breaks.

Cameras can be infrared so they actually see in the dark as well as they normally would during the day.

You can go on the Internet from anywhere in the world and watch your employees in real time. If you do not want to watch now and maybe want to do it once a week, these systems will store up to 2 months worth of video before it begins recording on top of itself.

More and more businesses are making security cameras a normal part of their business knowing that they are both a cost savings tool and a crime deterrent at the same time.

The Restaurant Repair Company will be happy to come out and look at your store and provide you with a free estimate. Should you so desire, all our work can be done when your business is closed so that your employees will never have any idea where the cameras actually are.

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When you are ready, call us at our home office in San Antonio Texas at 210 520-6640 and we will send a representative from your local market.

No more leaks in Copper Pipe

How old is your restaurant? Ever had any plumbing leaks in your fresh water system? Water leaks anywhere can cost a fortune. If they shut down your business, it can be even worse.

Do you know what happens here in Texas when water freezers in Copper pipes?

Listen to this amusing story:

Long John Silvers requires cold water for their fish batter. Some genius engineer / designer decided that a good way to get this cold water was to mount a coil of copper tubing on the ceiling of the walk-in refrigerator and pass the water through it . They apparently thought that it would also be a good idea to mount that coil of copper just in front of the walk-in freezer door.

We have had half a dozen situations where the freezer door was left open, the water in the copper froze and then the copper split and here comes the $300.00 repair man. And that repairman returns each time someone leaves the door ajar.

To fix this, we replaced the copper with Wirzbo. This was over a year ago and none of the coils we have installed have failed.

One of the tremendous advantages of Wirzbo is the fact that it expands when water freezes in it and then when the water melts, the Wirzbo goes right back to its original shape.

Did you know that there are many different kinds of copper pipe. There are different thicknesses and different qualities depending on whether or not the manufacturer in in the United States or in a foreign country. We have seen many times where copper pipe in a new building of just a few years old leaks. Repeated leaks will cost you a fortune if you are getting a new leak each month, and generally when copper starts to leak once; it is going to leak again.

There are several different kinds plastic pipe which almost everyone has heard of but there is one type that stands head and shoulders above the rest.

The product is called Wirzbo. To learn more about Wirzbo, go here:

Wirzbo is a plastic pipe plumbing system that is guaranteed not to leak for 25 years when installed by a certified Wirzbo contractor.

And in the off event Wirzbo ever does leak, the Wirzbo company will pay for the repair to the pipe with all parts and labor; AND they will pay for any damage caused to your building.

There is no copper pipe, steel pipe or other plastic pipe that has anything like this guarantee. Wirzbo is truly an amazing product.

Wirzbo will also work for repairs with any size of copper pipe.

Several of our technicians are certified installers for Wirzbo. If you would like to have us to come out and give you a free estimate for re-plumbing your problems, give us a call at our home office in San Antonio Texas and we will send a local technician in your market. If you have any unanswered questions, please do not hesitate to call Ted Baker at 210 520-6640.