In a Starbucks
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JFletcher
Senior Member
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- Williamsburg, VA
A dollar says the GFCI is in the women's bathroom on the common wall. Stickers are missing tho unless not required in commercial...
jumper
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- 3 Hr 2 Min from Winged Horses
Stickers are only required when doing the GFCI thing for replacing ungrounded recs. A grounded GFCI protected rec does not have to have a sticker.
brantmacga
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- Georgia
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- Former Child
I've never done a Starbucks, but I do a looooooot of restaurants; 99% of them use GFI breakers exclusively for all receptacles.
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I've consistently noticed the electrical work after the initial construction at Starbucks is sub par. Set screw EMT connectors used outdoors and coated in silicone, holes drilled in the side of LB's to route low voltage cables, I think I saw the bell end of pvc conduit to Carlson transition too.
Fulthrotl
~Autocorrect is My Worst Enema.~
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a couple things to consider here....
the labor pool you are drawing on, and the time constraints
imposed by the work schedule.
not justifying anything you've seen... far from it.
SBUX remodels are usually done in 7 days, soup to nuts.
at midnight on sunday, they pour out the coffee, and gut
the store down to bare studs and slab. seven days to put
it all in new. sawcut the slab, move plumbing, frame, rough
electrical, tile, casework, and scheduling all the inspections.
and they almost always open on time. there are contractors
who specialize in this, and the good ones are in demand. it's
not fun, and the turnover rate among the subs is pretty healthy.
a big GC doing them may very well do over 200 of them a year.
it's brutal for a reason. lost revenue from a store not opening
on time. without naming sums, it's staggering the revenue
of a SBUX, especially with a drive thru.
right now, there's a shortage of good EC's doing SBUX work.
there's a shortage of good EC's doing any type of work.
so, you are good... ok... you do a SBUX with a crew of four
guys or so. in the middle of nowhere, 250 miles from home.
now, you do another 7 day dance of death 20 miles away,
staggered by two days offset....
and three days later, you start a third one..... and a week
after than, you start the fourth one.... with the same crew.
and you do this without stopping for eight months.
a lot more than expresso beans gets ground up here.
the quality of the install falls off? you're lucky that the
foreman isn't up in a clock tower with a rifle.
kwired
Electron manager
- Location
- NE Nebraska
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- EC
Next time you are in there plug in your pocket sized GFCI tester and press the test button - then you will know if there is a properly functioning GFCI.Maybe on a GFI breaker but you never know
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curt swartz
Electrical Contractor - San Jose, CA
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- San Jose, CA
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- Electrical Contractor
Do it AFTER you purchase your coffee/food. The register might be connected to the same GFCI.Next time you are in there plug in your pocket sized GFCI tester and press the test button - then you will know if there is a properly functioning GFCI.
Fulthrotl
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nope. nothing that might interrupt power to the cash register is permitted.
nothing. i think that the same strategy used on a fire pump is applied to the
POS power. MI cable tapped ahead of the main. probably not even fused.
JFletcher
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- Williamsburg, VA
:lol:
Yes, but the cashier can bring it all down with a wrong keystroke. and the cheapie 8p8c plug on the solid cat5e is made for stranded cat6...
You want to see bastardized electrical, check out your average older hotel.
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