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Your Restaurant Equipment Brand Went Out of Business. Now What?
Posted by Joseph Moore on
It starts with a small sound. A hum that's slightly off. A door seal that doesn't quite close right. You pull up the model number on your reach-in cooler and search for the part online — and that's when you see it. "Brand discontinued. No longer available." This happens more than people think in commercial food service. Equipment brands get acquired, absorbed, shut down, or simply walk away. Coldtech. Glenco. Elliott Williams. Metalfrio. Saturn. Jimex. These aren't obscure names — they were in real kitchens, running real operations. And when the companies behind them went dark, millions of dollars worth...