Sheraton Hotel

The Sheraton Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey is a modern hotel boasting 502 guest rooms. Located on Ocean Way across the street from the Atlantic City Convention Center, the hotel also maintains three banquet rooms, 12 meeting rooms, and one restaurant serving breakfast and lunch. In addition to all of this, the Sheraton also serves as the national headquarters of the Miss America Organization. It’s a good thing that the kitchen effluent is being serviced by a Big Dipper W-750-AST (Product Catalog), because with all the other activities going on there seems to be little time to maintain a large, in-ground grease trap.

The Atlantic City Water Authority requires all commercial kitchens to have some sort of grease interceptor to collect grease before it reaches the sewer lines (as do almost all major metropolitan areas). When the Sheraton Hotel was being constructed, several options were available to the hotel, including pre-cast in ground grease traps as well as automatic-type intercep-tors like the Big Dipper. For the specifiers, there was no contest. A W-750-AST (Product Catalog) system was installed.

According to Dave Werner, an engineering mechanic at the hotel, it was a wise decision. “The Big Dipper is very effective at screening out solids in the flow while removing a substantial amount of grease. It’s also very easy to maintain; I check the collection container on a daily basis to make sure it isn’t overflowing, and every week I’ll spray off the strainer baskets and clean the wiper blades. That definitely beats getting on my hands and knees with a manual trap and cleaning out all that grease by hand. The Big Dipper does it all for you.”

That about says it all. In a busy hotel in an even busier setting, it’s hard to find time to properly maintain an inefficient manual trap. And Dave Werner, one of the busiest employees at the hotel, agrees: “I’ve worked at other hotels with manual traps, and I’d pick the Big Dipper over them any day.”

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