When was the last time the employees cleaned this produce case? Just Nasty! Why are the store managers not inspecting for cleanliness?
@HVACRServiceTechАй бұрын
@@jd2799 I would say it's never been cleaned
@jd2799Ай бұрын
@@HVACRServiceTech No doubt
@jakemensik2842Ай бұрын
With the way stores are run these days (insane amounts of micro management from corporate) most managers only care that the shelves and cases are stocked the way corporate wants them to be. The last store I worked at would only clean the shelves and cases whenever the big wigs were coming by. They will only do the minimum amount of cleaning required. My local grocery store has mold underneath pretty much every dairy rack they have. I've brought it up countless times and they are still filthy.
@LogicalNikoАй бұрын
Organic all right... Organic Botulism, Coliform, E. Coli and I'm sure a whole host of other molds, fugus, and bacteria in that special soup. And it doesn't just sit isolated in the sump area, it naturally rides in the water vapor through the air about 5-15 feet in all directions (which is why code doesn't allow toilets next to food prep/storage areas). Now the sprayers will actually help wash some of it down off the produce (assuming they are clean in the first place), but the misting action also helps propel that which does propagate out another 20-30 feet from the case. Those goopy things that look like Jellyfish are actually many many generations of bacterial colonies that pile up on eachother called Bio-Film. Based upon that buildup I would say this case was last really cleaned 6 months ago, maybe closer to a year. Technically if you shipped this case off to the russian/ukrainian front lines by NATO regulations you would be planting a bio-warfare device.
@HVACRServiceTechАй бұрын
thats crazy. I guess I need to be more careful then
@anthonyaldridgeАй бұрын
Need one of those milwaukee transfer pumps or stick pumps for that case. Yeah when I worked produce if the worker didn't care about their product it was always nasty like that. One guy I worked with left all the rotten stuff on the bottom and kept putting new on top.
@HVACRServiceTechАй бұрын
@@anthonyaldridge that's terrible
@LogicalNikoАй бұрын
I agree those Milwaukee 18V pumps and 12V stick pumps are totally bad a$$. And not only can you evac the chunky debris with them, after you wash them out you can fill a 44 gallon trash can with sanitation fluid (bleach, water, and soap) and they will give you really high pressure on a sprayer. Now if you really want good cleaning power portable Milwaukee pressure washer is great for these situations. Also get some Lye to run down those drain lines. Anytime you deal with that much junk you're going to want to just clean them out anyway.
@RuujRubelliteАй бұрын
Yeah unfortunately this is so common in stores. The place I work at doesn't even consider 'Leak Level Detected' alarm as a concern. Two years ago; we had a Leak Level Detection alarm go off for over 6 months until eventually all the tanks were empty. We ran out of cooler fluid and the store lost every product in Frozen and over half in dairy. We kept trying to inform management about the issue, but they just shrug it off until Corporate says it needs to be fixed. When we were finally allowed to make the call; the guys that came out were flabbergasted as to why it took so long. The night crew is not allowed to make calls to call in Refrigeration techs; that's reserved for the store director and upper management. It baffles me how people don't get sick more often from the food that gets sold in these stores.
@HVACRServiceTechАй бұрын
@@RuujRubellite yeah that's crazy it actually baffles me to how they can have the nerve to start and run a business such as a large grocery store without understanding that they have to have a budget set aside for the maintenance of these expensive refrigeration systems which are the heart of their operations
@john381123 күн бұрын
And at the end of the day you buy refrozen food
@andrewsimon5437Ай бұрын
I know exactly how this smells…..I used to work in a supermarket and we would clean cases like this monthly.
@MTGamingFr34kАй бұрын
That's definitely the "clear drains, valve off, see you in a couple hours" de-icing. Wouldn't even attempt to de-ice vertical coils at 2AM.
@HVACRServiceTechАй бұрын
I like the overtime
@anactualpilot4 күн бұрын
thats actually how Kombucha is made
@ITBlankaАй бұрын
Some women: we don't need men. Meanwhile: Girl, not even your salad exists without us. 🤣
@czechmate6916Ай бұрын
Looking at the inside of these cases it’s a wonder people aren’t in the hospital. Too bad their customers don’t see this.
@MalleusSemperVictorАй бұрын
Man, you should see what vegetables are grown in.
@ValDominatorАй бұрын
you don't even want to know what the food trucks look like
@HVACRServiceTechАй бұрын
That's really gross. You really actually never know what the food that you're buying has been through. Some of these are big brand stores too. A normal person on a regular day would think that their store Would not do this but they would be wrong.
@TheMatsushitaManАй бұрын
Bet that smelled amazing! 20:06 were the insides of the fan connectors ( both male and female halves) dried out? 20:45 sounded pretty wet
@wardenpotatoАй бұрын
This was very informative but god i shouldn't have watched this while eating
@Bjorngrim74Ай бұрын
That shmoo you kept asking about is what we call a biofilm in the microbiology business. Gotta deal with those nasties in our water system and keep an eye on bacterial levels in our manufacturing suites.
@HVACRServiceTechАй бұрын
biofilm, huh? wow, thats tough stuff man
@Bjorngrim74Ай бұрын
@@HVACRServiceTech No kidding It withstands heat and even chemicals. Very tough stuff. That's why getting rid of it pays my bills.
@HVACRServiceTechАй бұрын
@Bjorngrim74 So it's just gonna grow again right? The fact that I removed, it doesn't mean that I killed it. It's like mold huh
@Josb_Bluebird2143Ай бұрын
I worked at a Kroger store. That would never pass their standards or health department/ ecolab.
@HVACRServiceTechАй бұрын
@Josb_Bluebird2143 the same standards can be said and are the case for this store chain. Just a strange occurrence actually
@CSXRailfan6588Ай бұрын
10:12 is exactly how one of the fans sounds in the meat case at one of the stores I shop at except 10 times worse
@jose01099Ай бұрын
that doesn't just happen overnight
@GunnerSentinelАй бұрын
So we aren’t going to diagnose the defrost issue? Just wash it and wait for it to ice up again in 2 weeks 😂
@steveurbach3093Ай бұрын
I thought under the checkstand scanner and belt was bad (I serviced the POS equipment)
@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2Ай бұрын
At my hy vee I have been working at this for over a year and the food stains that are original are still there I don't see any manager making an effort because it is costs again and this hy vee is eleven years old
@minibikemadmanАй бұрын
ice ice baby...our seafood coffin cases did this all the time..fun when the drains get clogged. They made us strip the cases..id tell em get a produce guy over hear now and strip it then clean it!
@tucobenedicto109Ай бұрын
Yup been there done that. I've cream in the stand ups and one was a cauffin. I wasn't HVAC just a frozen 🥶 employee. We had blitz guns connected to line on top of the stand-up freezers connected to the stores pressure washer pump. It helped but you had to unfreeze the shut off first or you would never get anywhere. Much cleaner than yours maybe a frozen broccoli 🥦 bag that had split open. Once the drain was defrosted I went to town. Took a while. Cleaned all the trays and metal racks in the sink in the back. Usually the next shift would have to put what product was in the shopping carts back in the shelf from the walk-in freezer.
@HandfulofhandsomenessАй бұрын
Need a bandaid on that cut working around food
@HVACRServiceTechАй бұрын
@@Handfulofhandsomeness yea, you're right.
@R290s_biggest_fanАй бұрын
welcome to the real world
@DigitalIPАй бұрын
I would have shown it to management before working on it.
@GunnerSentinelАй бұрын
This is a Tom Thumb/albertsons store, they are too cheap to pay their employees to waste time cleaning cases
@douro20Ай бұрын
Are they electric defrost or hot gas?
@HVACRServiceTechАй бұрын
these ones were air defrost, since they were medium temp. just tue off cycle is the defrost
@john381123 күн бұрын
Put a wet rag around your hose nozzle all water pushing out all the spunk out
@douro20Ай бұрын
Running their cases into the ground...
@HVACRServiceTechАй бұрын
you know, none of these stores do like any maintenance
@haydenpowell1787Ай бұрын
Need a green machine
@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2Ай бұрын
How does ice form inside a produce cooler if it's above freezing
@HVACRServiceTechАй бұрын
well if we have a lack of air flow, the temperature of the refrigerant will get lower and lower and very quickly get below freezing. Once that happens, the ice starts to grow and it only continues to grow until It is removed somehow. With this one all of the standing water in the bottom was affecting how the fans were operating across the entire case. That and I believe they were overstocking it in the front, blocking the air curtain.
@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2Ай бұрын
@@HVACRServiceTech do you shop at Costco because the produce room is cold even in the summer and it is the opposite of the norm