Water Filtration Systems for Restaurants
Our water treatment solutions for restaurants
There are many reasons you might need to treat the water in your restaurant: starting with health & safety regulations, the list goes on to protecting your kitchen appliances and even perfecting the taste of the dishes and drinks served. Here’s how we can help:
Reverse osmosis filters
Produce pure water for next-level taste in the food and drinks you serve.
Water softeners
Use our ion exchange softeners to prevent scale buildup in your kitchen equipment.
Sediment & carbon filters
Reliably remove particles, chlorine and odours from your restaurant water.
UV disinfection
Eliminate bacteria and viruses to ensure your kitchen adheres to health & safety standards.
Why restaurant operators trust Ecosoft
Restaurants all over the world trust Ecosoft’s water filtration systems. That’s because we understand your challenges – and have devised various water treatment solutions that make restauranting easier (and tastier).
Cutting-edge technology
Protect your kitchen appliances
Local water is sustainable water
Recommended products for your restaurant
Clean Water, Proven in Practice
Our services & support for restaurant operators
We’re here for you. In person. So if you need help with your Ecosoft product, have any questions, or your restaurant is faced with a unique water treatment challenge, just let us know. We’d love to help.
On-site service
Callback service
Email consultation
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You’re interested in our solutions for your restaurant? Let’s talk!
Your questions, answered
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What water treatment system is best for my kitchen equipment?
While all of our water treatment systems purify water for use in your kitchen equipment reliably, the perfect choice depends on a number of factors like the following:
- How many appliances will use the purified water?
- How high is the daily consumption of the purified water?
- How big or small is the space available for a water filtration system in your restaurant?
- What quality does the inlet water have in your restaurant?
If you’re unsure about the best water filtration setup for your restaurant, we’d love to help you.
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Will water treatment improve food & beverage taste?
Yes, it will.
Tap water usually contains impurities or might be chlorinated depending on where you live, all of which interferes with the taste of the dishes and drinks you prepare in your restaurant.
In order to achieve next-level taste in the food and drinks you serve in your restaurant, we recommend pure water that’s been filtered to remove any impurities.
A great starting point for this would be one of our reverse osmosis filters like the RObust 1500 or the RObust 4000, which are eco-friendly and provide great purification results that will elevate the taste of your dishes and drinks.
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Do I need to use a tank with your water purification systems in my restaurant?
While it’s not strictly necessary to use a tank when using our commercial water filtration system in your restaurant, we do recommend it for certain use cases: For example, using a tank for the water used by your coffee machine helps to average TDS levels in the water, which results in consistent coffee flavour.
We recommend installing a tank in all cases where our reverse osmosis filters are connected to additional devices.
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Are your products for restaurant water treatment smart?
While many of our products are IoT-ready, our current solutions for the food and beverage industry aren’t smart.
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Can I achieve the TDS levels needed for specialty coffee with Ecosoft?
Yes, you can achieve the TDS levels recommended by the SCA with Ecosoft water treatment systems.
The SCA recommends a TDS level of 75–250 ppm, although it’s important to note that the composition of the Total Dissolved Solids has a significant impact on the taste of your coffee.
With its combination of calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg), the RObust COFFEE creates water that’s optimized to enhance the unique aromas of coffee.
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Do your filtration products achieve SCA-compliant water for coffee making?
Yes, you can achieve SCA-compliant water with our products.
Our direct flow reverse osmosis filter RObust COFFEE was specifically designed for coffee making and delivers SCA-compliant water through four steps:
Step 1: Pre-filtration
Mechanical impurities, chlorine, chlorinated compounds and natural organic substances are removed from your inlet water.
Step 2: Membrane filtration (RO step)
The water is pushed through a semi-permeable reverse osmosis membrane to remove 99.8% of dissolved impurities, including viruses and bacteria.
Step 3: Special coffee cartridge
Now the water is enriched with calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) to enhance the aromas of the coffee brewed by your baristas.
Step 4: Post-carbon filtration
In this final step, the water is purified one last time to remove any residual odours that might impair the taste and aroma of your coffee.
But even if you decide against the RObust COFFEE for whatever reason, you can combine one of our reverse osmosis filters in your restaurant with sediment filters, water softeners and mineralisation cartridges as needed to achieve the water quality recommended by the SCA.
If you’re unsure how to do that, we’d love to help you plan the ideal water filtration system for the coffee station in your restaurant.
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Do you have any RO filters specifically designed for restaurants?
Yes, we do.
The RObust 4000 was specifically designed with restaurants in mind: the ultra-compact direct flow reverse osmosis filter purifies water to ensure it doesn’t damage your dishwasher or other restaurant equipment.
The RObust 4000 is designed for continuous operation of up to 20 hours per day, has a great recovery rate of up to 60–65% and provides up to 3l of purified water per minute.
Apart from that, many of our restaurant clients happily use some of our other RO products for water filtration in their restaurant:
- RObust Mini: direct flow RO filter with enough performance for small places like cafés at a very reasonable price
- RObust 1500: direct flow RO filter with a high flow rate, perfect for cafés, hotels, offices, schools, laboratories, dental offices, private homes, and more.
- RObust 3000 MAX: direct flow RO filter with a high flow rate, designed to supply purified water to various kitchen equipment such as ice makers, steamers, ovens, dishwashers, water dispensers, and more
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What maintenance is required for restaurant filtration systems?
Maintenance of restaurant filtration systems depends on the selected unit and its operating principle. Mostly, a regular replacement of membrane elements and media is required. The schedule varies.
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Can one system supply the entire restaurant?
Yes, we’ve got powerful filtration systems with a high flow rate that can supply the entire restaurant without interruption. For instance, the Ecosoft RObust 4000 direct flow reverse osmosis system with a flow rate of up to 180 L is designed for 20 hours of continuous operation.
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What should restaurants consider before choosing a filtration system?
Before choosing a filtration system, it is required to test the feed water to know its parameters and calculate the demand for purified water. Also, the expected result should be clear: whether the business needs softening only or wants to have comprehensive water purification.
In the Ecosoft online shop, we offer a wide range of water filtration systems for restaurants. You can choose a unit at an appropriate price and with the required parameters from our catalogue and place an online order to have it promptly delivered to your location, wherever it is in the world.
Water Quality Problems in Restaurants
Water is critical for restaurants, whether for cooking or sanitation, when food safety compliance is paramount and ensured by specialised facilities, including food laboratories. Drinking water is expected to be off-flavour to provide the taste of dishes and beverages according to recipes. It must comply with safe health standards by having a sound composition free of toxic chemicals and harmful pathogens, which differs from how things ought to be in reality. Also, hardness causes lots of problems with equipment, like dishwashers, coffee makers and others that consume more energy and require frequent repairs because of a limescale buildup.
Owners of restaurant businesses are responsible for water safety; that is why it is important to test it even if it comes from a reliable source. It is highly likely that the quality turns out to be poor. To improve it, we recommend purifying water by a reliable method.
Types of Restaurant Water Filtration Systems
In restaurants, filtration systems are widely used, whether to get clean, safe water with a next-level taste or to prevent scale buildups in equipment. Ecosost offers three key categories of water treatment systems to solve these tasks:
- reverse osmosis filters that remove over 99% of contaminants from water, including viruses and bacteria;
- water softeners that replace hard elements with safe soft minerals, like sodium or potassium;
- sediment and carbon filters that remove large particles, chlorine, and unpleasant odours.
It is possible to provide all the above effects by one advanced assembly that includes pre- and post-filters to ensure the most comprehensive water treatment.
Water Treatment for Coffee, Ice, and Cooking
Regardless of the quality of water from a local source, it is very much possible to brew tasty coffee, make fresh, slowly melting ice, and cook mouthwatering meals. When using a filtration system from our catalogue, you can achieve the best taste and flavour of water safe for consumption in food and beverage establishments. Our water treatment units have high flow rates, stable operation, and great recovery rates.
Benefits for Equipment and Customer Experience
Ecosoft has over 30 years of experience and expertise in the water purification field and can boast of a vast global customer base. Being an international manufacturer of water treatment systems, we use innovative technologies designed for high efficiency. Our solutions for HoReCa allow users to ensure high-performance drinking water filtration. Using them, it is easy to protect kitchen appliances from scale and provide advanced water purification to wow guests with exceptional meals. In addition, our systems reduce operating costs due to sustainability and low maintenance.
Choosing the Right Restaurant Water Filter System
A perfect restaurant water filter system matches the establishment's daily volume. To figure out the performance, a flow rate should be compared with the pick water usage by a dishwasher, coffee maker, ice machine, beverage dispensers, and other equipment needed to run a food service business. In addition, the source water quality should be taken into account as every filter is intended to treat water with a particular composition, including hardness, TDS, residual chlorine, iron, etc. Different types of constructions can be preferred, including elements required by the technology used, point-of-entry and point-of-use systems, and others. If it sounds too complicated, reach out to our customer support for consultation.
Installation and Maintenance
The Ecosoft filtration systems can be easily installed. We offer our local partners’ services. Regular maintenance is required. Typically, consumables are replaced or added. Filter elements and cartridges should be replaced every 6 or 12 months. Media and salt should be added, as the user manual recommends.
Why Do Restaurants Choose Water Filter Systems Ecosoft?
Ecosoft produces efficient, stable, and reliable water treatment systems for various purposes, including units for car washes. Also, we enable tailored offers. You can prefer it when you buy a product on our site and contact us to find out how much it can cost, considering your individual request. We help customers choose a product for target water solutions and support them, providing spare parts and required on-site services.