ENDING DEBATE OVER WHAT NEEDS A HOOD

2006-01-20T13:16:00.000-08:00

Tom Johnson, Principal of Johnson Diversified Products recently developed a thoughtfully written proposal to quantify a method to evaluate food cooking processes. This idea could lead to a uniform method to stop the endless debate of when a commercial kitchen exhaust hood should require a Type I hood. The process becomes very difficult when local AHJ authorities make local judgements that overrule generally accepted standards. For more information go www.upyourstack.com and hit the Newsletter tab and read Tom's full explanation in the January edition.

First Post

2005-12-09T16:11:00.000-08:00

December 21, 2005

WELCOME to the UP YOUR STACK blog site.

By: George Zawacki, FCSI,CFSP

Welcome to the blogging world of UP YOUR STACK®.com. Blogging is a new thing for us just as it may be for you. Creating this new blog gives us the opportunity to contact you in a more timely manner as issues develop in the foodservice and commercial kitchen ventilation business.

We plan to continue writing the informative monthly newsletter that features everything about kitchen hoods and CKV. Click on the link below for current and archived articles focused on commercial kitchen ventilation (CKV).

Our website will soon feature a link directly between this blog and all of the website features you have become accustomed to at http://www.upyourstack.com/

VIRUS CONCERN and HELPFUL HINT

A few days ago we contacted David Lawrence at Online Tonight to ask about a continuing and annoying email problem. A series of emails always using the same format, but always different senders. We were concerned about becoming infected with a virus. David is the guru of internet and computer information. He can regularly be heard on radio nationwide. After listening to our brief explanation, he quickly advised me that the situation I described was minor and we should just use our delete key. He said the delete key is the first line of defense against intrusive email. Visit http://www.online-tonight.com/

GRANDFATHERING OLD EQUIPMENT

We recently wrote an article that addresses a general problem that few municipal officials seems to know how to deal with. The title of the article is “GRANDFATHERING – When is “OLD”, too Old?”

It addresses a problem that the AHJ community (Authorities Having Jurisdiction) in state, county, township and local municipalities have with old and outdated equipment. Quite often the foodservice equipment does not meet current safety or sanitation codes.

Since the grandfather clause is a legal precedent, most AHJ officials feel they are helpless when it comes to requiring operators to bring equipment and systems up to meet current codes.

Read how some authorities in Illinois are addressing this difficult issue at www.upyourstack.com/newsletters/101705/GRANDFATHERING.asp