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Walk-in cooler died at 9pm on a Friday and I saved $1,800 in product with 40 pounds of ice
Last Friday around 9pm I walked into the kitchen to grab my keys and heard the walk-in cooler humming wrong, almost like it was gasping. The temp was already at 52 degrees and climbing, so I called my old repair guy, but he was two hours out in Tacoma and I had a full weekend of brunch prep sitting in there. I drove to three gas stations and bought every bag of ice I could find, packed the fish bins first, then stacked the produce on the top shelves where the cold would settle. By the time the tech showed up at 11:30 the cooler was back to 41 and the health inspector who happened to stop by Saturday morning said I did it right. What do you all keep on hand for cooler emergencies, do you have a backup plan or just cross your fingers like I did?
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derek9928d ago
That "just cross my fingers like I did" line is where we part ways, because hoping is not a plan when you have thousands of dollars of protein sitting there. A cheap temp alarm on the cooler that texts your phone would have caught that at 52 degrees instead of whenever you happened to walk in, and that costs way less than one lost weekend of fish. You got lucky with timing and quick feet, but luck runs out and a $40 sensor does not.
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