Okay, here's the reason. I have a seasonal spot at a campground on the Chesapeake bay. It is frequented by both big RV's as well as tenters, and everyone in between. The typical way most people wash their dishes is that they take their dishes over to the bathouse where there is a large washbasin on the outside with a countertop, and they hand wash their dishes at the table. The folks with bigger RV's hand wash their dishes inside their campers at their own sink. my thought is to put a bank of coin-op dishwashers in over at the bath house that the campers can use instead of hand washing their dishes. People could take their dishes over to the machine after dinner and put them in, and go enjoy themselves while the machine does all the work! Best of all, the campground could earn a few bucks off of their operation!
anybody make a coin-op dishwasher?
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My thoughts exactly. I have thought about that too, in my mom's neighborhood built in the late 50's none of the houses had a dishwasher, and today some do not. I had thought about this every holiday when we had a house full of people and had to wash all those dishes. A dish-mat. Add a row of dishwashers at the local laundromat I thought it would be a nice addition and extra income. My mom got rid of her dishwasher after the five kids moved out and today she jokes about putting them in the wash basket and taking them to our's or my sisters house after a big family meal. If we are all there and this is just imeadiate family there are 17 of us.
Yeah but someone may end up puting a really gross thing in there and contaminating the wash tub.
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Re: Contamination:
Hey! Steve, wouldn't that be what Stainless Steel Interior's would be for, to prevent Contamination, other then possibly on the Racks?
"BTW" how much are any of you Guys thinking about charging per-load of Dishwashing?
I would be more worried/concerned of having someone checking out the Dishwashers, to see if anyone else had better looking Dishes than what they put in the Dishwasher they were using and leaving some "Cruddy-Looking" Dishes behind for someone else to be forced to take, throw out or just leave there...
Peace and Happy Coin-Dishwashing for those wanting, Steve
SactoTeddyBear...
Hey! Steve, wouldn't that be what Stainless Steel Interior's would be for, to prevent Contamination, other then possibly on the Racks?
"BTW" how much are any of you Guys thinking about charging per-load of Dishwashing?
I would be more worried/concerned of having someone checking out the Dishwashers, to see if anyone else had better looking Dishes than what they put in the Dishwasher they were using and leaving some "Cruddy-Looking" Dishes behind for someone else to be forced to take, throw out or just leave there...
Peace and Happy Coin-Dishwashing for those wanting, Steve
SactoTeddyBear...
Coin Op Dishwasher
Would not be a very water nor time efficient way of doing massive loads of dishes.
Better to install a commercial dishwasher and charge for the service. People could load their dishes onto the standard "dish racks" all commercial dishwashers use, and bring them over to the unit. For really large volume, the small conveyor belt systems would work well; dirty dishes in one end clean dishes out the other.
The advantage of commercial dishwashers is not only speed, but water savings. Conveyor models recycle water, and unit washers normally save the final rinse water to use as the first wash water for the next cycle.
Just a thought.
Launderess
Would not be a very water nor time efficient way of doing massive loads of dishes.
Better to install a commercial dishwasher and charge for the service. People could load their dishes onto the standard "dish racks" all commercial dishwashers use, and bring them over to the unit. For really large volume, the small conveyor belt systems would work well; dirty dishes in one end clean dishes out the other.
The advantage of commercial dishwashers is not only speed, but water savings. Conveyor models recycle water, and unit washers normally save the final rinse water to use as the first wash water for the next cycle.
Just a thought.
Launderess
Oh I like Laundress's idea a lot. It would require an attendant/operator, but those commercial conveyor Hobarts you can rinse, slide in , slide out a rack in a mere minute or so.
Now that got me thinking, if I was building my dream kitchen I could have one of those smaller Hobart conveyors, like they used to have at the Woolworths luncheonettes.
mattywashboy
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i work at Subiaco Oval which is a local soccor/rugby pitch. When i am not helping out waitering i operate the HUGE Hobart dishwasher that all the kitchens in the place have (its a huge place, look it up on the net) This diswasher takes up an entire wall of the kitchen and has a prewash section, main wash section and smaller rinse section. This machine takes about 15 mins to fill up depending on the water pressure (when there is a huge game on hen it can take up to 45 mins to fill) there is one small tank and one huge wash tank. Its a conveyer system with a control that you switch between short medium and long. Its a very cool machine to operate and i just love going to work some days. Anyway just my two cents.
matty:
Are the water heaters electric elements, or gas jets under the sections?
When I worked in a ritzy country-club there was a conveyor-belt machine there, and the gas heaters' flames (temperature maintainers and boosers) could be seen under the various sections of the machine.
The flames jsut licked the bottom of the SS machine, no enclosure no nothing.
Are the water heaters electric elements, or gas jets under the sections?
When I worked in a ritzy country-club there was a conveyor-belt machine there, and the gas heaters' flames (temperature maintainers and boosers) could be seen under the various sections of the machine.
The flames jsut licked the bottom of the SS machine, no enclosure no nothing.
mattywashboy
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toggle: no this is all electric powered. There is no drain pump, i have to insert and remove a long grey tube into a drain hole in the bottom of the tub. Above that is an electric heating coil similar to that in a household dishwasher. The tempretures are pre set with wash at 80*c and rinse at 100*c. It fills up with hot water and when it is done the heater coil keeps it hot. I wish it was gas, the amount of times the powers conked out! There is a small switch at the end of the machine that stops the machine when too many racks come out from the machine causing a traffic jam. The one is use had a power cut the other night and it confused this switch, now the dishwasher won't start up again, i think one of the wires is splitting, its a fairly old machine, about 7 years old and it has had VERY EXTENSIVE use. Luckily there are 4 more in the building to choose from so i'm never shorty of a Hobart dishwasher 
It's getting hot in here.
100*C is 212*F is boiling.
are you sure the rinse temp is set so high?
100*C is 212*F is boiling.
are you sure the rinse temp is set so high?
mattywashboy
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well i know one of them is almost near 100, could be a faulty thermostat, i don't know, it always feels damn hot when i'm dragging it out the other end
Nothing wrong with "boil" rinse, it serves two purposes; sanitises and helps dishes "flash" dry upon leaving the machine.
LOL -
I had previously only heard of a (domestic) Thermador/Waste King Universal doing a SSSSSSSSSSSSteam rinse!
I had previously only heard of a (domestic) Thermador/Waste King Universal doing a SSSSSSSSSSSSteam rinse!
.....and in terms of contaimination...
ashtrays (eh,a little extra fiber ain't so bad)
dog bowls (not fun when not your dog)
items containing lead
iron - rusty items
aluminum
containers holding pesticides, germicides or insecticides.
people wash baseball caps in there-
chandelier glass pieces
some steam salmon-
I visited a friend years back who had sprayed insecticide in the DW..... and they STILL used if for storage of pots and pans. Guess what fun the next owner of that house is going to have when they decide to keep the retro-antique-vintage DW and use it......
I'd personally be very hesitant to use a community-accessible machine, unless there was a full-time operator "directing traffic"
ashtrays (eh,a little extra fiber ain't so bad)
dog bowls (not fun when not your dog)
items containing lead
iron - rusty items
aluminum
containers holding pesticides, germicides or insecticides.
people wash baseball caps in there-
chandelier glass pieces
some steam salmon-
I visited a friend years back who had sprayed insecticide in the DW..... and they STILL used if for storage of pots and pans. Guess what fun the next owner of that house is going to have when they decide to keep the retro-antique-vintage DW and use it......
I'd personally be very hesitant to use a community-accessible machine, unless there was a full-time operator "directing traffic"
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community dishwasher
I can't imagine it being any worse than "what's been in THIS washer before me" in any laundromat.
I used to be a dishwasher at a resteraunt, and thier dishwasher was the conveyor type. The staff had to separate each tray of dirty dishes into racks designed for the various sizes of glasses, cups, & plates. after the bus trays were empty, any water and leftover food was dumped into a trough that led to a continuously running HUGE garbage disposal. Flatware was dumped onto a flat tray. Trays were then pre-rinsed by hand with a sprayer on a flex hose and pushedinto the machine. The dishwasher had 2 tanks, first one was a pre-wash, second one was main wash with a gas heater under the tank. The dishes were then sprayed with VERY hot clear water as theyemerged from the end of the machine. Flatware was then taken back to the front of the machine, put in racks that made them stand up vertically, then run through again. The detergent was this super strong stuff by Economics Laboratories called Impact! and came in bags that were dumped into a wall-mounted plastic dispenser that had water running through it.
I can't imagine it being any worse than "what's been in THIS washer before me" in any laundromat.
I used to be a dishwasher at a resteraunt, and thier dishwasher was the conveyor type. The staff had to separate each tray of dirty dishes into racks designed for the various sizes of glasses, cups, & plates. after the bus trays were empty, any water and leftover food was dumped into a trough that led to a continuously running HUGE garbage disposal. Flatware was dumped onto a flat tray. Trays were then pre-rinsed by hand with a sprayer on a flex hose and pushedinto the machine. The dishwasher had 2 tanks, first one was a pre-wash, second one was main wash with a gas heater under the tank. The dishes were then sprayed with VERY hot clear water as theyemerged from the end of the machine. Flatware was then taken back to the front of the machine, put in racks that made them stand up vertically, then run through again. The detergent was this super strong stuff by Economics Laboratories called Impact! and came in bags that were dumped into a wall-mounted plastic dispenser that had water running through it.
Dreams of Dish-o-Mats
When I was a kid I used to come up with all sorts of crazy ideas (ok maybe I still do). But one of them was a laundromat style store for dishes called a Dish-o-mat. People would take their dirty dishes and pots/pans into the car and schlep them to the Dish-o-Mat with coin op, windowed-doored dishwashers. It would have made for one very happy little boy to have visited one of these.
When I was a kid I used to come up with all sorts of crazy ideas (ok maybe I still do). But one of them was a laundromat style store for dishes called a Dish-o-mat. People would take their dirty dishes and pots/pans into the car and schlep them to the Dish-o-Mat with coin op, windowed-doored dishwashers. It would have made for one very happy little boy to have visited one of these.
When I was in college, I wasn't on the campus meal plan. My roommate and I had a cool old microwave and I bought a Corning Microwave Browning Dish, so we made a quite amazing array of dorm-room cooked food. But I digress.
We had a lot of dishes to do, so we bought a used portable dishwasher and stuck it in the laundry room in our pod. There was a single laundry tub in there, so it worked out perfectly. Naturally, we had to let everyone use it. Some of the disgusting things people put into the machine included sneakers and a freaking BED PAN (why anyone needed a bed pan in a dorm room, I'll never know). At any rate, it was almost a relief when the old Whirlpool gave up the ghost...
We had a lot of dishes to do, so we bought a used portable dishwasher and stuck it in the laundry room in our pod. There was a single laundry tub in there, so it worked out perfectly. Naturally, we had to let everyone use it. Some of the disgusting things people put into the machine included sneakers and a freaking BED PAN (why anyone needed a bed pan in a dorm room, I'll never know). At any rate, it was almost a relief when the old Whirlpool gave up the ghost...
You all make really good arguments. And still, I don't think I'd use one if they were available. I guess the fact that these are utensils that will go into my mouth and the thought of what someone may have put in there previous to me using it....just don't think I could do it.
