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The Need To Treat Water

Servicing and maintaining catering equipment is a constant Technology
headache for coffee shops and other caterers. Machine failures Experts
cost you money twice! Once to repair the item and again through
lost sales revenue. Working with the water
technology experts in the Water
A busy high street coffee shop can literally lose hundreds of and More team at BWT UK is a
pounds a day from a single espresso machine breakdown. They highly effective way to identify and
also risk losing regular customers who might switch to an avoid water-based issues before
alternative shop nearby. they become a problem.

In recognition of this, some city centre premium bakers require A recent enquiry from a busy
their contractors to attend site within 4 working hours as part of ‘dark kitchen’ centred on a bank of
an agreed service contract – or there is a penalty to pay! three 20 grid steam ovens
collectively using more than 2,000
Unwelcome News litres of London water to make
steam every day!
In short – equipment breakdowns are unwelcome news for
everyone. Manufacturers lose reputation and potentially new Simple maths tells us that water
business, service companies need to fund expensive reactive with a TDS of 250 mg/litre, (like
levels of cover, caterers lose sales and consumers get grumpy! London) in theory, could deposit MAY/JUNE. 2023 | ISSUE 30
as much as four hundred grams of
For appliances using water, like coffee machines and steam dissolved solids throughout the
ovens, one way to minimise the impact of these problems is to equipment and water system
avoid them in the first place! everyday – that’s nearly half a kilo!

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