7 Reasons to Maintain Your Commercial Kitchen Appliances

If one appliance breaks down, your business could come to a halt, resulting in customer dissatisfaction, lost sales, and decreased profitability. Fortunately, preventative maintenance can reduce the probability of equipment breakdown and the resulting adverse outcomes. Learn seven benefits preventative maintenance offers your commercial kitchen equipment.

1. Prolong the Life of Your Kitchen Equipment

When buying a commercial kitchen appliance, you make an investment. As such, you want to use the equipment for as long as possible to guarantee a return on investment. Preventative maintenance increases the life span of equipment so that you can use it for longer. Rather than spend money replacing equipment now and then, you can invest in other areas of your restaurant.

2. Fewer Repairs

With preventative maintenance, you reduce costly repairs by detecting potential failures before they happen. You also identify any problems with your equipment and fix them before they escalate into full-blown issues that are expensive, time-consuming, and laborious.

3. Increase the Resale Value

Preventative maintenance keeps kitchen appliances in good working condition. If you want to sell the equipment, you can get a good deal.

In fact, there is a big market for used commercial kitchen equipment as long as it is clean and well-maintained. Start-up food establishments tend to seek used but properly maintained kitchen appliances to cut costs.

4. Reduce the Risk of Injury

Preventative maintenance plays a fundamental role in ensuring employee and customer safety. It keeps all your equipment operating correctly and helps you comply with local health and fire departments. Preventative maintenance reduces safety risks such as burns, explosions, and fire incidents, leading to tarnished reputation and costly lawsuits.

Preventative maintenance keeps your commercial kitchen equipment operating correctly and efficiently. Your appliances useless energy resulting lower utility bills. For instance, a well-maintained refrigerator will function optimally without consuming much power.

6. Save Money

Restaurants that wait for equipment to break down to fix them have a reactive approach to maintenance, which is costly. First, unplanned down time is expensive because it leads to decreased productivity, customer loss, and brand damage. Second, unexpected equipment failure means paying technicians overtime to fix your appliance and incurring the extra cost of overnight parts delivery.

With a preventative maintenance plan, you avoid all these costs and their associated headaches. It is much cheaper and faster because you focus on preventing equipment failure and damage instead of responding to emergencies.

7. Improve Food Quality and Safety

The benefits of preventative maintenance go beyond the equipment to the quality of food your restaurant offers. If you neglect your equipment, it could become dirty and may even harbor bacteria, which could contaminate the food - which could lead to customers getting sick and health code violations. Fortunately, with preventative maintenance, your appliances remain clean and safe for food.

Whether you run a café, restaurant, fast-food chain, or catering business, you must make sure your kitchen equipment is in top-notch condition. Preventative maintenance keeps your equipment functioning optimally to improve food quality, reduce breakdowns, increase equipment lifespan, and lessen costly repairs.

Get in touch with Hawkins Commercial Appliance Service for planned maintenance services for your commercial appliances. We make it easy and affordable for you to keep kitchen equipment in good condition instead of fixing broken equipment. You'll save time, money, and energy, which helps you grow your business instead of worrying about your appliances.