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I really don't care for restaurant work. The ones we do work at always have panels blocked, crawlspaces hard to get at, customers/employees running around you at all times and the kitchen floors make your shoes greasy. Definitely not ideal working conditions....

Then it makes it harder for me to eat there after seeing what goes on in the back.
 
physis said:
As long as it works, right?
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This is similar to a funiture store I worked on several years ago....

All kinds of track everywhere, I was up in the t-bar ceiling running CAT5 and noticed three 20' runs of track fed with LAMP cord (probably #16ga), flying splices everywhere.

I told the owner that this needed to be fixed now, he said to me "what are you having a slow week or something? Leave it." What a tool.

I documented what I found on his invoice and never went back.

Sorry no photos.
 
PCN said:
This is similar to a funiture store I worked on several years ago....

All kinds of track everywhere, I was up in the t-bar ceiling running CAT5 and noticed three 20' runs of track fed with LAMP cord (probably #16ga), flying splices everywhere.

I told the owner that this needed to be fixed now, he said to me "what are you having a slow week or something? Leave it." What a tool.

I documented what I found on his invoice and never went back.

Sorry no photos.
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I think something that bad needs reported to inspection department. If or should i say when there is a fire how will you feel that someone died.
 
Actually that's not bad for a Chinese Restaurant. I don't see any romex running into the panel.:grin:

I had a service call at a Chinese Restaurant one time. The manager called me about a breaker in the kitchen tripping. When I first got there, they would not let me into the kitchen for about five or ten minutes while they were doing lord knows what.....scary.

I made a note to never eat there.
 
Jim W in Tampa said:
I think something that bad needs reported to inspection department. If or should i say when there is a fire how will you feel that someone died.
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Your 100% right Jim. A sudden wave of guilt hit me when I read your post. Why didn't I turn that shmuck in? It was an obvious do it yourselfer nightmare.

Luckily the place has since been entirely renovated by a top notch E.C.
 
Unfortunately many "establishments" don't see the value in having a pro do an install. Kinda freaks you out when you think about it while you out having dinner with your family.
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A few years ago my sister and brother-in-law were dining at a local restaurant. My sister had gone into the ladies room and noticed the lights blink a few times. Right after she got back to their table, all the power went out as the staff began to evacuate the place. They were stuck waiting for their car for a few hours as the fire department dealt with the fire, which gutted most of the building.

Cause of the fire? Failure of the feeder to the A/C system, which was recently upgraded. The fire investigator (who's wife goes to my BIL's salon) said the fire was caused by the feeder being grossly undersized.

The owner had said he could "smell electrical" around the breaker panel after the A/C was upgraded.

The restaurant has since been rebuilt, but my sister won't go back there.
 
I will agree that after seeing what the kitchen looks like there is a few places i wont eat in but also one i would. Working in them is a hazard i would rather do without
 
PCN said:
This is similar to a funiture store I worked on several years ago....

All kinds of track everywhere, I was up in the t-bar ceiling running CAT5 and noticed three 20' runs of track fed with LAMP cord (probably #16ga), flying splices everywhere.

I told the owner that this needed to be fixed now, he said to me "what are you having a slow week or something? Leave it." What a tool.

I documented what I found on his invoice and never went back.

Sorry no photos.
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I'll bet your rip cord was 18 AWG, 16 is wishful.

I have an internal cheepskate translator. "What, are you having a slow week or something" actually means "The only reason I even called you is because despite every other thing I've tried, nobody was willing to further degrade the condition of my building for free".

Not going back was a good choise. Although these cheep people usually pay, the negosiating, forget about the work, isn't worth it.
 
I did a remodel on a building that was first a Pizza Hut and then a chinese restaurant.

I took pictures but can't find them at the moment. The new owner had done a pretty good job of cleaning the place, but all the devices around the kitchen area were full of grease and such.

Lots of 'repairs' and additions had been done over the years.

One aspect of the job was relabeling all of the circuits in two 42 space panels; they had labels, but they were all in chinese characters! I was actually impressed that the restaurant owners took the time to relabel everything to their language.
 
chris kennedy said:
Wow, spare is spelled the same in English and Chinese. Learned something new today.
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yes they looked just like that. but they had stripped the original labels off the door, and put those envelope labels in their place w/ the chinese characters written on them.
 
brantmacga said:
One aspect of the job was relabeling all of the circuits in two 42 space panels; they had labels, but they were all in chinese characters! I was actually impressed that the restaurant owners took the time to relabel everything to their language.
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It's time consuming and kind of a pain sometimes, but I agree, I wish more people would ask for their panels to be labeled when doing remodels, etc. Last one I did was for a UPS distribution. The local heating company came out to install a new furnace, shut off the breaker labeled "furnace" and all there network computers in the office went down with it. They were less than pleased. It also made me truly appreciate my Amprobe AT-2005. AWESOME TOOL for that job, it let me leave there computer circuits on while labeling the panel and tracking breakers down.
 
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