Ensuring Your Restaurant is Comfortable This Summer

The summer season is just around the corner, and that means the weather is bound to get hot! Regulating the temperature in a restaurant can be difficult. You need to make sure you're staff if the kitchen is comfortable, while also ensuring your dining guests aren't too hot or too cold. Along with ensuring all your food-service equipment is in proper working order, Fast Fix LLC also has experience maintaining commercial HVAC units in Missouri and Western Illinois and can make sure yours is in optimal working condition for the warm summer months ahead. Keep reading to learn more about the importance of an efficient HVAC system, and how that will help with the comfort level of your restaurant.


Restaurant Air Conditioning Challenges


From dish washing to cooking, food preparation areas produce a significant amount of humidity.  However, it's important that the humidity doesn't transfer out into the dining area, where guests and staff want a comfortable environment. This imbalance between the different areas of the restaurant often leads to not only humidity control options, but also temperature swings  and over-cooling. The other issue is energy costs. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, restaurants use about 5-7 times more energy per square foot than other commercial buildings. Next to refrigeration, HVAC systems account for the largest portion of a restaurant’s annual energy usage.

HVAC Service and Maintenance 


Dependent upon how old your restaurant's HVAC unit is, you might consider upgrading to an energy efficient HVAC unit featuring advanced controls technology and capacity modulation methods. However, that may not be in your budget. Therefore, it's imperative to maintain and service the system already in place. Through routine maintenance, you are able to ensure your HVAC equipment is working properly and efficiently. In addition, you'll likely extend the life of your equipment, avoid costly repairs and lower your utility costs. Regular maintenance should include replacing or cleaning the filters, cleaning the coils, ensuring condensation is draining properly and a simple inspection & tune-up from a professional HVAC technician in Missouri. 

At Fast Fix LLC, we have over 200 years combined experience repairing and maintaining commercial and residential HVAC, food-service equipment, electrical, gas, plumbing, and light carpentry work. When it comes to the efficiency and comfort of your restaurant, trust our experienced Missouri and Western Illinois restaurant equipment repair technicians for the job! Give us a call at 573-544-0456 for all your restaurant equipment repair and maintenance needs. 

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Fast Fix LLC. Restaurant Services
9403 County Road 154
Auxvasse, MO 65231

Phone: 573-254-3748
St. Louis Customers: 636-FASTFIX
Website: www.FastFixLLC.com

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