09/25/2026
❄️ Well, that's a new one.....
After nearly 20 years of working around cold storage, we thought we had a pretty good idea of all the ways a walk-in freezer could ruin your day.
We were wrong. 😂
A weld on one of our freezer's cooling fans failed, sending part of the assembly into a fan blade. That blade broke off at high speed, flew into the SECOND fan, and promptly sheared off all of its blades.
Our repair technician's response? He had literally never seen this happen before.
Which would be fascinating if our freezer weren't currently holding the results of an entire summer's worth of work. 😬
🍅 2,000+ pounds of processed tomatoes
🍓 Strawberries
🥕 Carrots
🧅 Onions
🍉 Watermelon..and a whole lot more destined for Feeding 500 and Farm-to-School.
HUGE shout-out to Chuck with Rescurant who got there quickly and had us back up and running within hours, and to our Kitchen Manager Kim, who immediately started moving our most precious and temperature-sensitive inventory into other freezers while we crossed every available finger and toe.
Everything is safe, the freezer is running, and we've unlocked a fun new cold-storage fear we didn't know existed.
To our fellow cold-storage folks: apparently this can happen.
May it never happen to any of us again!
