MaintScope · Meal prep kitchen
Meal prep & production kitchen refrigeration
If your blast chiller can't hit its cooling curve inside the time your food safety plan specifies, you're non-compliant on every batch and nothing looks broken. It's also a hard ceiling on how much you can produce in a day.
And if it's still running
Know what it's going to cost you — before it costs you
A licenced tech goes through every bit of air conditioning, ventilation and refrigeration you've got, and writes down what condition it's in, what needs doing and when, and what it's realistically going to cost you over the next year and the next five. Plain English, one PDF.
When this equipment stops, stock starts dying the same day.
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What the report actually says
What you’ve got
| Equipment | Age | Condition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blast chiller | ~4 yrs | Action | Not hitting the cooling curve within time |
| Cool room (raw) | ~6 yrs | Serviceable | |
| Cool room (finished) | ~6 yrs | Watch | Cycling more than its pair |
| Freezer room | ~6 yrs | Serviceable | |
| Prep area split systems x2 | ~6 yrs | Watch | Heavy load, filters neglected |
Needs attention now
- The blast chiller isn’t hitting its curve. Your food safety plan almost certainly specifies cooling from 60°C to 21°C then to 5°C inside set times. If the machine can’t do it, you’re non-compliant on every batch, and no one has told you because nothing has visibly broken.
- Finished-goods cool room cycling harder than the raw room. Same size, same load — that difference is a fault developing.
Your service year
| When | What |
|---|---|
| Per batch | Cooling curve logged (you should already) |
| Quarterly | Blast chiller performance verification |
| April | Full service across all rooms |
| Sept | Pre-summer service, splits priority |
What it costs — next 12 months
| Item | Low | High |
|---|---|---|
| Blast chiller service + verification | $760 | $1,400 |
| Cool rooms x2, 2 visits each | $1,680 | $2,560 |
| Freezer room, 2 visits | $960 | $1,560 |
| Split systems x2 | $360 | $560 |
| Total | $3,760 | $6,080 |
Coming in five years
- Blast chiller compressor — $4,000–8,000
- Cool room compressors — $2,800–5,500 each
- Freezer compressor — $3,200–6,000
Quietly costing you money
A blast chiller that misses its curve is a recall waiting to happen. But before that, it’s slower throughput — batches occupying the machine longer than planned, which caps how much you can produce in a day. That’s a revenue ceiling created by a service issue.
What I’d do first
- Verify the blast chiller against its cooling curve, documented
- Find out why the finished-goods room is working harder than its twin
- Filters and service on both splits
How it works
$150 to come out. Everything else depends on what's there.
- I come out — $150.I go through the lot: what you've got, how old it is, what condition it's in. Takes an hour or two depending on how much is in the place.
- You get it in writing within 48 hours.One PDF. What's there, what needs doing and when, what it should cost you over the year, and what's coming further out.
- Anything that needs fixing, I quote on what I find.I can't price a service off a website — it depends on the unit, the access and what turns up when it's open. You'll get a real number, not a guess.
- If you'd rather not think about it again, I'll handle it.Scheduled servicing across the year, timed around your trade. No lock-in — plenty of people take the report and go it alone, and that's genuinely fine.