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Getting Rid of Rodents

by Katie Lee

— By Chad Gore —   Proactive steps to prevent rodent infestations in your facilities this winter.     As retail and restaurant facilities prepare for increased foot traffic over the holiday season, it is imperative for store operators to familiarize themselves with the signs of rodent infestations. If not properly monitored, rats and mice seeking shelter from cold temperatures can lead to costly structural damage, health and safety hazards, product contamination and a negative brand reputation. Facility managers can use these essential tips to understand the facts, anticipate the …

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Barrier to Entry

by Katie Lee

— By Bryan Campbell —   When developing on potentially contaminated property, you can protect your new building from VOCs with a vapor barrier.     Historically, the term “vapor intrusion” was discussed only in association with the most heavily contaminated properties. Now, with the emergence of new stricter guidelines, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and many state regulatory agencies identify vapor intrusion as a major driver on many sites, including those with little to no soil or groundwater contamination. In some cases, potential vapor intrusion is not …

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Full Service

by Katie Lee

— By Tom LaMartina — How to facilitate a more efficient, cost-effective FM program for your retail or restaurant business.   Below is a Q&A with RWS Facility Services, which provides the nation’s largest companies with full-service facility management services that reduce cost, save time and improve the overall environment. From commercial waste management to landscaping to HVAC repair and more, RWS offers one-stop convenience for all your facility services. R&R: What are some ways a retail or restaurant company can evaluate their facility management program to ensure it’s efficient, …

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Revamp With a Repaint

by Katie Lee

— By Sean Gillespie — How to kickstart your branding cycle with a trusted painting contractor.   Over the past 2 years, keeping up with planned painting programs has been challenging. Deferring a planned program cycle is never a simple decision. But at some point, moving from deferral back into the cycle can feel like reinventing the wheel. You’ll need a good partner who can help you maneuver through challenges and positively impact your brand and budget! Kickstarting multi-site repainting programs is essential to ensuring consistent branding across each of …

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On its Face

by Katie Lee

— By Cindy Price — Refresh your business with face replacements for signage.   Outdoor signs must be durable enough to withstand all kinds of weather that Mother Nature throws at them. Your sign is quite literally the “face” of your business, so it should look its best at all times. But when weather, age or other elements wreak havoc on it, what do you do? Outside of replacing the entire sign, a face replacement is a solid choice. The Basics: What is a Sign Face? Simply put, a sign …

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From Fire to Ice

by Katie Lee

— By Shaw Hergenrather —   Are you ready for a Texas-sized deep freeze? Nine ways restaurants and retailers can prepare for and mitigate winter disasters.     Winter is coming. Even if truly cold weather rarely hits your part of the country, the season is rapidly approaching, and, as we all learned from the catastrophic power grid failure in Texas last winter, freezing temperatures can strike anywhere. With a costly fall-out in excess of $130 billion, people across the country — including everyone on my team — watched in …

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Intentional Design

by Katie Lee

— By Greg Houck — How emerging mixed-use trends can translate to long term success.   Mixed-use projects have a retail problem. Too often, incorporating retail spaces into a mixed-use project is straightforward and static: a single complimentary demand driver, such as a high-rise multifamily with convenient ground-floor grocer. With this approach, the residential component may subsidize a portion of revenues for the tenant, but most often it isn’t sufficient enough and local demand has not been fully understood. Over the past several years there has been many exciting innovations …

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Breath of Fresh Air

by Katie Lee

— By Chris Marasco — Improving IAQ to better protect your customers.   The COVID-19 pandemic has been a catalyst of disruption for more than a year. In 2020, the virus quickly shut down many restaurant locations while forcing retail businesses to enforce strict guidelines that instructed customers to wear masks and stand 6 feet apart. In many situations, consumers shifted toward online stores to make their purchases as opposed to gathering in person at a brick-and-mortar location. While the pandemic turned many lives upside down, one positive outcome was …

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Demonstration: Smarter Cleaning for Retail, Grocery & Restaurant Facilities

by Sarah Daniels

  The Dec. 1 “Smarter Cleaning for Retail, Grocery & Restaurant Facilities” demonstration, hosted by Retail & Restaurant Facility Business, focused on important topics for any facility interested in cleanliness. Kaivac’s vice president of business development, Mike Perazzo, also makes note of easy ways to promote employee satisfaction (in a time when there is a shortage of labor) and making cleaning easier (in a time when hygiene has never been more important). Check out some of the important topics and their video timestamps below, or click to hear Perazzo talk …

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Post-COVID Design

by Katie Lee

— By Steven Duffy — Retail formats — grocery formats especially — must adapt quickly.   The future of retail changed forever as the pandemic exposed the inadequacies of e-grocery. Consumers seek convenience at a fair price, and they want a frictionless experience. Grocers and retailers must adapt, and quickly. Retail and grocery formats and their supporting technologies have remained static for decades, unable to respond to shoppers’ demands, new technologies and have failed to meet today’s consumer’s shifting paradigm. Retail of the Future is at an Inflection Point Today …

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