| "body"> | | | | deal with grease dumpsters, which almost always |
| I know there is a general concern with the health | | | | are a mess. You rely on a company to pick up |
| consequences of eating fried food, especially | | | | your grease when the dumpster is full, and you |
| when it comes to cholesterol. I own a seafood | | | | hope the dishwasher doesn't spill the oil when |
| restaurant on the southern coast of Maine, and | | | | they're emptying the pails of grease. There is |
| one of our mainstays is fried food. We serve | | | | nothing glamorous about this whole process; it's |
| almost as much fried food today as we have in | | | | one of those byproducts of having a quality |
| the past. There's something about having fried | | | | product. |
| clams while on vacation in Maine that is a must. | | | | Enter the new bio-diesel generator that stores, |
| Our customers always comment on how they go | | | | heats, filters and burns your waste oil for fuel. |
| without all year, waiting for their vacation to Maine | | | | This process will typically supply up to twenty |
| for their annual fix of fried food. This is the sound | | | | percent of the electricity for your restaurant. In |
| of sweet music to my ears; we love the pleasure | | | | addition to the electricity, the heat generated |
| of serving our customers that annual fix. It's | | | | from the generator is used to heat glycol lines, |
| exciting that so many people choose our | | | | which are attached to your water heater and will |
| restaurant for this simple pleasure. | | | | provide up to eighty percent of your hot water. |
| For our part, we use only one hundred percent | | | | If you're a busy restaurant, your dishwasher runs |
| canola oil, and we change it daily. We buy quality | | | | constantly and uses a continuous supply of hot |
| French fries, we don't use coated fries or fries | | | | water. The simplicity of this machine is perfect, it |
| loaded with sugar. We want to give our | | | | utilizes your waste and turns it's own waste into |
| customers their fix, while trying to provide some | | | | hot water for your restaurant. |
| healthy element to the indulgence. I don't think | | | | With all the talk of going green, this has to sit |
| having fried food a couple of times a year will be | | | | near the top for restaurateurs. You no longer |
| detrimental to anyone's health. We maintain | | | | have a big truck blowing exhaust pulling into your |
| excellent standards in our quality, that go beyond | | | | parking lot to empty your grease. You're recycling |
| our oil and French fries, we are committed to | | | | your waste into energy for your company, |
| using fresh fish and cooking all of our food to | | | | reducing the pollution generated in producing |
| order. Our onion rings are hand cut and breaded | | | | electricity. You're parking lot is much cleaner, you |
| to order, with a light coating, using real milk and | | | | no longer have a grease slick in your lot around |
| egg. If you're going to indulge, you might as well | | | | your grease dumpster, and it totally cuts down on |
| have a high quality experience that tastes so | | | | the flies, that a grease dumpster attracts. |
| good, that it's worth the lecture from your | | | | As a concerned citizen, you can now proudly eat |
| doctor. | | | | your fried food and inform your doctor that |
| The good news with fried food is, there are | | | | maybe, he just might be wrong when he lectures |
| benefits that go beyond taste and quality. | | | | you on the pitfalls of eating fried food. As an |
| Recently, I've been researching a new bio-diesel | | | | educated consumer, you can let him or her know |
| generator that runs on recycled fry oil. It has a | | | | that you are only trying to help restaurants go |
| built in filtering system that cleans the left over oil | | | | green and that you are a good steward toward |
| and turns it into fuel for you generator. It's | | | | helping the environment. I liken this to a win-win, |
| amazing all the technology that exists today, | | | | everyone wins, and we get to feel a little less |
| especially industry specific equipment for our | | | | guilty eating fried food, knowing that in the |
| restaurant. One of the biggest negatives of | | | | process, we are helping the environment. Fried |
| maintaining standards like ours, where we change | | | | Clams just got a little tastier. |
| our oil daily, is the waste. It's a messy job; you | | | | |