Backup Generators for Restaurants
Many business owners generally correlate power loss with inclement weather like blizzards, severe Winter-weather storms, and heavy downpours or natural disasters like tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires, but power outages can come at any time for any reason. From rolling brownouts to rolling blackouts, man-made disasters, failing electrical components within in the infrastructure, the aging power grid, or even nature’s friendly little creatures can all be possible causes for power outages.
Restaurants and food service industries often overlook the need for backup power solutions. While a restaurant’s focus may be on providing customers with an excellent dining experience that entails quality of the food, presentation, service, and ambiance, have you ever taken a moment to think of what would happen if the power went out? If the restaurant experiences a power outage during peak hours, how will you be able to serve your customers? Will you have to close early for the day? What about stock being stored walk-in refrigerator or walk-in freezer?
Benefits of a Backup Generator for Restaurants
A backup generator for your restaurant can be the difference between not only having to close early for the day, resulting in loss of profits and revenue, but it can also result in the loss of inventory and food spoilage of perishable goods that must be regulated within temperature controlled environments like coolers, refrigerators, or freezers.
A backup commercial generator can help your business continue to run, can help keep the doors open, and keeping customers happy in the event of a power outage. Cash registers, beverage dispensers, computer systems for inventory management, ordering services, security systems, utilities, and food processing appliances can be powered by a backup generator.
If there is a power outage that is affecting your neighborhood, a backup generator can help you keep your operations going, thus becoming a hotspot for sustenance and comfort. This can bring customers peace of mind and anticipate returning to your restaurant in the event of another power outage.
Additional Benefits
Backup generators can be paired together with an automatic transfer switch (ATS). An automatic transfer switch will prompt the generator to switch off from the main power grid and begin generating power for your restaurant within seconds. Lack of an ATS (automatic transfer switch) would require you to make additional contingency measures to ensure that someone will be there to turn the generator on when power goes out and off when power is restored. This could prove difficult if the cause of a power outage is due to inclement weather, such as a blizzard or hurricane.
Conclusion
Generators may seem like a costly initial investment, but they can help combat power outages and prevent financial losses, such as loss of inventory, profit loss, and productivity. When accounting for all the potential causes for power outages and the losses, the benefits can far outweigh the costs.
If you are looking for a new, used, replacement or rental generator for your restaurant or looking for more information, please reach out to us at Woodstock Power Company. We have experience working with restaurants to get you a generator that best fits your needs. We provide full-turnkey solutions from calculating power requirements, generator sizing, selection, delivery, and pre-installation, installation, and post installation services.
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The Woodstock Power Company Experience
We have industry experts that focus on commercial backup power generator sets, with in-depth industry knowledge to help you choose the right generator that fits your needs. We supply generators to commercial real estate properties, industrial real estate properties, data centers, hospitals, commercial business facilities, and more!
Our experts are ready to assist you from answering any questions you may have about power generator sets to helping you find the best selection in our inventory based on:
- Peak & Average Power Requirements
- Fuel Preference (Natural Gas or Diesel)
- Portability & Stationary Power
- Prime & Standby Generator Requirements
- Available Space & Exhaust Restrictions
Our experts are also able to help coach you on prime, continuous, and standby power generators, as well as finding the best surplus, new, or used generator that best fits your required application.
We carry only the most top rated new, used, and surplus power generator sets for sale, providing you with a great value generator that will fit your budget.
Our generators have been thoroughly inspected, serviced, and verified, which ensures that you will be buying a quality generator that you can depend on. If a generator is not up to par with industry standards, we make all necessary repairs or modifications, and fully test every generator before we sell. This ensures a full turnkey generator that’s ready to fire up and go!
Due to our wide selection of generator sets, we’re confident that we can find the model that best suits your operational needs.
We also buy used generators in good quality, if you have already upgraded and you’re looking to sell your older model.
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