Restaurant Water Quality

Americans spend about $602 billion a year eating at restaurants. Since water is given to every customer at every step of the process, ensure that your restaurant’s water quality is normal. This will give the ice, beverages, and meals a better flavor. When water is given to them when they are seated, if the ice is cloudy, and if the water has a noticeable chlorine taste, a common item used to clean the water from municipal water sources, they may not have a very good first impression.

Most water has impurities, naturally, such as minerals, sediment, and chemicals, which may cause scaling to accumulate on the metal surfaces and rubber parts of steamers, dishwashers, ice machines, and coffee pots. This scaling can lead to corrosion of these metal machines and rotting rubber components. These contaminants may also cause the growth of bacteria in your kitchen and dining areas. Managing your water quality can help you increase the life of your machines and other items in your restaurant.

Beverages and Your Water Quality

A noticeable problem with some tap water is the impurities in it, such as chlorine, that can cause a bitter, flat flavor in tea and coffee beverages. A water filter can remove these distorting flavors and help the customer have a great-tasting beverage.

Filtering water can save time and money because it helps you have a better restaurant, cleaner and longer-lasting equipment, and happier customers.

Check Your Restaurant’s Water Quality

The water supplier, such as the city water utility that provides the water to your restaurant, must check the water quality. However, the pipes and taps at your restaurant and any environmental problems nearby could give you a different reading of your water quality. You may need to have it tested by a certified company.

You could also have a plumbing company do backflow testing at your restaurant. They will notice if the valves that keep the sewage from the bathrooms moving away from the restaurant are functioning normally or if the valves are not working. The bathroom water could contaminate the fresh water. They may need to repair the valves to help you have a safe and healthy water supply for your restaurant.

Water Filter Information

A commercial water filter can help improve the taste and look of the water at your restaurant and helps your food service equipment stay clean and last longer. This would reduce the amount of money you spend on service maintenance and repair. A service employee coming to your restaurant to remove scales from your machines or repair them is generally higher than the cost of a water filtering system.

Carbon block filters remove lead, chlorine byproducts, fluoride, gasoline, bacteria, parasites, herbicides and pesticides, radon, and traces of pharmaceuticals. You could get an additional sediment filter to remove any larger particles. A reverse osmosis filter removes sulfates, heavy metals, and chloride, giving the water a metallic or salty taste.