Not All Installations Are Equal | General Parts Group

By Tim Koehl – Associate Branch Manager

Recently our service team in Indianapolis completed a very interesting installation project, one for the books as you might say. It’s a story that really highlights the skills and the tremendous variety of work undertaken by food equipment technicians. These particular technicians we are proud to have wear a General Parts Group uniform.

When we got the call from Chef Chad, at Bon Appetit/Butler Dining at Butler University to move a walk-in we said, sure.  ‘Great, but here’s the thing……. it’s an 8ft x 28ft cooler/freezer combo which is virtually new, it’s inside the building but needs moving outdoors onto a pad which does not exist yet!’

So, having got our attention, we set to work by looking at plans to figure out how the project might be done. The team made three very smart decisions before being awarded the project.

Firstly, they made sure Lead Technician Pat could oversee the project through, from start to finish. Secondly, know what you don’t know, and brought in a general contractor to build the outdoor pad.

Lastly, this is a unique training opportunity for technicians with great core skills, who are looking to learn more about bigger projects.

And so, we put together a great team led by Pat and began a highly rewarding and deeply satisfying 3-month project which was broken into three phases of tear down, pad construction and rebuild.