Don’t Wing It: How to Keep Your Fryers Super Bowl-Ready

“Order more food.”

This is the American football fan’s philosophy when it comes to Super Bowl menu planning. Americans ate a record 1.42 billion chicken wings during Super Bowl LV, a trend consistent with the rising popularity of chicken wing consumption. As more restaurants continue to add wings to their lineup, with 36 percent of the top 500 restaurant chains now offering chicken wings on their menu, we can only expect these numbers to rise.

While you may be imagining your favorite wing (medium buffalo with blue cheese over here), you probably aren’t thinking about the piece of equipment essential to getting them on your plate: the deep fryer.

Fast Facts on Deep Fryers:

The cost of servicing hot side appliances, such as deep fryers, increased 38 percent in 2021  The average cost of servicing a deep fryer is $735 The average number of service requests for electric fryers is 67 percent higher than requests for gas fryersFryer service volumes increased 93 percent from the…