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Quality water filtration is better for business
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Water is fundamental to life – and also plays a huge role in the food service industry
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Restaurants, cafés, quick service restaurants, coffee shops, convenient stores, and other food service outlets rely on fresh and clean water for daily business. Controlling water quality can be vital to your store’s brand identity and customer loyalty.
You may consider incoming water to be fixed, stable, and unchanging, but quality varies widely from region to region and even street to street. High levels of dissolved minerals, the use of disinfectants, and the presence of tiny solid particles – or even residual bacteria – may result in an unpleasant taste. And, untreated water may cause scaling on internal parts, corrosion on metal surfaces, and rot rubber components within your food service machinery.
3M™ Water Filtration Shutdown & Restart Guide
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Keep your business flowing when it’s open—and help protect your equipment when it’s not. Performing a proper shutdown of your 3M™ Water Filtration System is an essential practice to help preserve its functionality and help ensure expensive appliances are ready to go when you restart them back up.
Key applications: where water filtration matters
3M™ Water Filtration Products are simple, effective, and easy-to-install for commercial food service applications. It is designed to meet the volume, water clarity, and maintenance expectations of restaurant owners, fast food chain and convenience store operators, supermarkets, cafeterias, and institutions.
For all your food service needs - cold, brewed, ice and specialty beverages, steamer, or combi oven - there’s a 3M solution that’s ideal for you.
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Ice is 100% water. Great water makes great ice.
Reduce scale build-up with 3M's ICE series. Help increase equipment life while reducing maintenance costs. Reduce bitter chlorine tastes and ice bin corrosion with the proper water filtration system.
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Excess sediment can clog your revenue streams.
Help maintain consistency, quality, better tasting beverages by reducing chlorine taste and odor. Reduce particulate matter which can shorten the service life of expensive parts of beverage machines with 3M's BEV series.
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Bid farewell to bitter beverages.
Help maintain coffee and tea clarity, consistency, and full flavor along with 3M's BREW series. Reduce particles in your water to increase the service life and performance of your equipment.
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Keep your combi ovens running at full steam.
Reduce poor water quality and equipment failure with 3M Water Filtration systems. Our reverse osmosis systems help lower maintenance costs while decreasing energy consumption by reducing scale build-up.
Why filtration matters for your business
Smoother coffee. Clearer ice cubes. Combi ovens running at full steam. When you work in food service, the quality of water you use is key to the right customer experience. Having quality filtration products may save time and money in the long run. Reducing impurities that may be in your water helps things taste and look better. Filtering water also helps reduce scale build-up, so your machines can run more efficiently with fewer service calls.
One of the most noticeable problems – usually leading to customer complaints – is that untreated water may result in off-flavours. These may be caused by some contaminants that may be present in your water including dissolved minerals and sediment particles to disinfectants like chlorine or chloramine. Reducing such contaminants helps products taste better. For example:
- Coffee has a richer, subtle flavour and is not tainted with bitterness, odour, flatness – or, on occasion, surface scum
- Cold beverages can be made using the recommended level of syrup as there is no need to use more to hide off-flavours and drinks have maximum fizz rather than being flat
- Drinks from vending machines and water coolers taste better with no evidence of chlorine
- Ice is not tainted with a ‘chlorine’ odour or sediment that makes cold drinks look and taste unpleasant
- Food prepared or cooked with water tastes and looks better, with no flakes of hard water scale present
Even if customers have no complaints over sub-standard food and beverages, low quality water can damage machinery. One of the most damaging water quality issues is scale caused by dissolved minerals deposited onto machine surfaces. This may lead to more machine breakdowns, require more maintenance – and ultimately reduce machine lifetimes.
- Scale on heating elements can reduce energy efficiency as it reduces heat transfer
- ‘Hidden’ scale – which blocks pipes, valves and other internal components – reduces flow rates and can also cause internal leaks
- Scale build-up can cut machine lifespan despite a lifetime of increased maintenance to keep it running
Unhappy customers and unreliable machinery can only lead in one direction: a negative effect on business. Here are just a few examples of how poor water quality can directly affect business:
- Machines break down more frequently, or work sporadically – so may not be available when they should be generating income and lead to an overall higher cost of ownership
- Brand reputation may become tarnished. Customers will either leave or complain if they are unsatisfied with beverage and even steamed food quality
- Unreliable working conditions, regular disruption from service engineers and handling customer complaints may affect the morale of staff
- Ultimately this all links back to an increase in running costs for the business and therefore reduced profits
Water 101 Video Series
Check out our Water 101 video series to learn about water quality issues in each common food service application - ice, coffee, espresso, cold beverage, steam, and multi-equipment - and the filtration solutions you may need to help improve the quality of water feeding your important machinery.
Replacement filter information and FAQs
To help reduce food and beverage quality impacts, business interruptions, added cost, and ultimately reduced customer satisfaction, follow recommended guidelines on when to change your 3M water filter. Knowing more about what affects your local water quality will help you manage integrating water filtration into your business.
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Go to our replacement filter page to learn:
- Where to buy a 3M water filter cartridge
- Why you need to replace
- When and how to change
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Go to our FAQ page to learn:
- What affects water quality
- The science of filtration
- General FAQs and more!
Why choose a 3M commercial food service water filter?
3M™ High Flow Series Products include the option of replacement filters featuring Integrated Membrane Pre-Activated Carbon Technology ("I.M.P.A.C.T.") that provides excellent cartridge life and economy. You’ll see some key benefits including:
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- Single-cartridge flow rates and capacities previously only available with three- or four-cartridge systems¹
- Up to 12-month cartridge life
- Fast and easy cartridge changes with our sanitary quick change design (SQC)
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- Direct or easily adaptable connections to existing plumbing lines
- Certification to NSF Standard 53 for cyst reduction² (For select High Flow series products)
- Reduction of 99.99 percent of waterborne bacteria³ (For select High Flow series products)
View our portfolio for food service applications
DOWNLOAD (PDF, 3 MB)Looking for More Information About Commericial Food Service Water Filtration?
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3M™ Scalegard Blend Series of ProductsBrochure
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¹ Filters featuring the Integrated Membrane Pre-Activated Carbon Technology ("I.M.P.A.C.T.") media can clearly be identified by the icon on the product label
² Based on the use of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts.
³ As demonstrated with 99.99% reduction of surrogate organism E. coli (ATCC 11229) and P. fluorescens (ATCC 49642) in manufacturer’s lab test.*Product Selection and Use: This tool is intended as a guide for food service application. Since many factors can affect a product’s use, the customer and user remain responsible for determining whether the 3M product is suitable and appropriate for the user’s specific application, including user evaluating the 3M product in the user’s application.
