Every piece of commercial kitchen equipment that uses water or produces drainage needs a licensed plumber — not the equipment vendor. We handle water and drain connections for commercial dishwashers, conveyor dishwashers, glasswashers, pre-rinse stations, booster heaters, combi ovens, steamers, steam kettles, steam tables, tilt skillets, pasta cookers, wok ranges, food-waste grinders, and garbage disposals. We also install and service floor sinks, hub drains, indirect waste piping, air gaps, and equipment isolation valves required by Florida's food-service code.

Florida food-service rules require ice-bin drainage through an approved air gap and prohibit waste lines from passing through an ice machine or ice-storage bin — violations that show up on health inspections regularly. We install dedicated ice-machine water lines, shutoff valves, drain connections, floor sinks, water filters, reverse osmosis supply systems, and scale-control systems. For beverage dispensing, we handle soda fountain connections, carbonator water lines, backflow preventers required for carbonated beverage systems, beverage station drains, and coffee and espresso machine plumbing connections.

Full-service bar plumbing requires a different level of planning than a standard commercial kitchen — under-bar drainage, glasswasher connections, ice-well drains, cocktail-station drainage, soda-gun water connections, carbonator plumbing, beer-tap drip-tray drains, trench drains, and floor sinks all in a tight, high-volume space. We handle complete bar plumbing installation and service for restaurants, bars, nightclubs, taprooms, and breweries — including brewery process-water piping, washdown stations, floor and trench drains, hot-water systems, and backflow protection for brewery equipment.

South Florida's hard water, high chlorine residuals, and iron content affect every water-dependent piece of equipment in a commercial kitchen — ice machines scale up, coffee tastes wrong, steamers and combi ovens fail prematurely, and dishwashers leave spots and film. We design and install whole-restaurant water filtration systems, commercial water softeners, scale-control systems, reverse osmosis systems for ice machines and espresso equipment, carbon filtration for taste and odor, sediment pre-filters, UV water treatment systems, and dedicated filtered-water lines for coffee, beverage, and steam equipment. We also provide filter-cartridge replacement programs, water-quality troubleshooting, and scale-damage evaluations for existing equipment.

Public restroom failures during service hours are a health code violation and a customer experience problem. We service and install commercial toilets, flushometers, sensor flush valves, urinals, lavatories, touchless faucets, metering faucets, ADA-height fixtures, floor drains, trap primers, and all associated supply and drain plumbing. We handle clogged toilets, clogged urinals, sewer odor corrections, running fixtures, and restroom remodeling — including touch-free restroom conversions and water-conserving fixture upgrades.

Florida's plumbing code specifically requires backflow protection for carbonated beverage dispensers, dishwashers, chemical-dispensing systems, mop sinks, hose bibbs, and irrigation connections — and missing or failed backflow devices are among the most common health inspection violations in commercial food-service operations. We install, test, certify, and repair all backflow preventer assembly types — RPZ, DCVA, PVB, AVB, and hose-bibb vacuum breakers — and provide annual recertification with direct water authority reporting for single locations and multi-property restaurant portfolios.

Florida regulates commercial grease waste strictly, and a failed, undersized, or improperly installed grease interceptor is one of the fastest ways to receive a health department violation or a sewer authority citation. We install, repair, reline, and replace interior under-sink grease traps, exterior gravity grease interceptors, hydromechanical grease interceptors, and automatic grease-recovery units — sized correctly for your kitchen's grease load and compliant with Florida's food-service plumbing requirements. We also handle grease-line hydro jetting, descaling, odor troubleshooting, baffle replacement, and coordination with licensed grease-waste haulers.

A restaurant without adequate hot water fails its health inspection. We install, service, and replace commercial tank water heaters, tankless water heaters, gas and electric water heaters, multiple water-heater staging systems, hot-water storage tanks, booster heaters, point-of-use water heaters, and hot-water recirculation systems with return line installation and pump replacement. We troubleshoot insufficient hot water, slow delivery, temperature inconsistency, and emergency no-hot-water situations — and we carry parts on the truck to resolve most water heater failures on the first visit.

We install and service natural gas and propane piping for ranges, ovens, pizza ovens, fryers, griddles, charbroilers, broilers, steam kettles, wok ranges, tandoor ovens, patio heaters, outdoor kitchens, and gas water heaters. Services include gas-line installation, gas-line sizing, manifold installation, shutoff-valve installation, appliance connector replacement, gas regulator installation, gas-pressure testing, gas-leak detection, gas-line repair, and gas-line abandonment and capping. We coordinate permits and inspections throughout the process.

Carhart Plumbing handles the complete plumbing scope for new restaurant construction, tenant buildouts, kitchen renovations, restaurant conversions, bar and nightclub buildouts, café and coffee shop buildouts, brewery and taproom buildouts, ghost kitchens, commissary kitchens, hotel restaurants, and quick-service restaurant rollouts. We coordinate DBPR plan review, permit applications, inspection scheduling, underground plumbing, above-slab rough-in, equipment rough-in, plumbing trim-out, grease-interceptor installation, gas-service installation, and as-built documentation — working directly with your general contractor, kitchen designer, and equipment vendor to keep the schedule moving.

The most expensive restaurant plumbing problem is always the one that wasn't caught during a routine inspection. Carhart Plumbing offers monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual preventive maintenance programs for restaurants and food-service facilities — including scheduled drain cleaning, hydro jetting, grease-line cleaning, floor-drain maintenance, water-heater flushing, backflow testing, faucet and valve inspections, ice-machine filter replacement, beverage filter replacement, gas-line visual inspections, pump inspections, and sewer-camera baseline inspections. All services include written reports and repair-priority recommendations.

For restaurant chains, franchise operators, hotel food-service departments, and property management companies managing multiple food-service locations, we provide single-point service coordination, standardized pricing, consolidated invoicing, preventive maintenance calendars, location-by-location plumbing inventories, capital replacement planning, and priority emergency response across all locations.