In a professional kitchen, a breakdown can’t wait. A walk-in cooler that stops on a Friday night, an oven that gives up mid-service, a dishwasher down during the rush: that’s lost revenue, sometimes food to throw away, and always stress. In the heat of the moment, you call the first repair tech available and you pay — without checking whether the equipment was still covered.
Heavy, expensive equipment that runs non-stop
A restaurant kitchen is a fleet of intensively used equipment:
- combi oven, cooking range, salamander broiler;
- walk-in cooler, refrigerated cabinet, blast chiller;
- commercial dishwasher / glasswasher;
- slicer, mixer, fryer, coffee machine.
Each one is expensive, each one has a warranty — often paired with a maintenance contract — and each one has its own end date.
Why warranties slip through the cracks
- The pace: in the middle of service, nobody has time to hunt for a warranty slip.
- The proof of purchase is with the accountant, the installer, or buried in emails.
- Manufacturer warranty, maintenance contract and installer warranty get mixed up.
- Some equipment was taken over from a previous operator, with no clear paperwork.
What a restaurant owner actually needs
- A file for every piece of equipment: installation date, invoice, warranty, maintenance contract, after-sales contact details.
- Instant access, from a phone, the moment something breaks.
- An alert before the warranty ends or the maintenance contract comes up for renewal.
Getting the answer to “is this still covered, and who do I call?” in three seconds saves precious time when the kitchen is at a standstill.
Keept behind the pass
With Keept, every piece of kitchen equipment has its own file: invoice, date, warranty length, maintenance contract — all accessible from a phone. The app warns you before every deadline, and on the day something breaks, you know immediately whether it’s covered and who to call. Fewer repairs paid for nothing, less service lost hunting for a piece of paper.