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Photo Trend Enterprises |
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Service*Repair*Maintenance*Renovation |
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Specializing
in the Restaurant Industry |
This site, like most, is an ongoing process. In progress:
- Company
and personal background information. Some links in my
life.
- Client
information including !Menus!
with addresses, phone numbers, and capsule descriptions.
- Links to other restaurant and food sites. (Coming Soon!)
What is Photo Trend
Enterprises?
Photo
Trend Enterprises is a very small company, usually composed of just myself,
that provides a wide range of services for the restaurant industry.
What services do we
provide?
We
provide the following:
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Electrical Services.
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General electrical work;
panel boxes, lighting, receptacle and equipment supply circuits, motors and
associated control circuits, etc.
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Telephone and data
system wiring.
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Sound system wiring.
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Television cable and
antenna wiring.
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Alarm system wiring.
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Plumbing Services.
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Drain, vent, and supply
lines; installation and repair.
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Drain cleaning.
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Fixture installation and
repair.
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Gas
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Extend, modify, or
repair existing service.
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Equipment installation
or removal.
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Custom stainless steel
and other metal design, fabrication, and installation.
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Tilework.
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Ceramic.
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Vinyl.
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HVAC and refrigeration
systems. Here we limit ourselves to control systems and associated electrical
problems, fans and belts, filters, condensate drain problems, refrigeration
door gaskets and hardware problems, coil cleaning, etc. We do not service the
refrigerant (Freon) system itself, although we can often provide a diagnosis of
common problems.
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Rough carpentry and
drywall repair. Shelves, door and door hardware repair or replacement, menu
boxes, etc. We tend to stay with smaller carpentry projects.
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Equipment installation,
repair, and maintenance. We can install and service a wide range of restaurant
equipment.
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A variety of other
handyman services.
Being a small company, we specialize in small jobs, although we occasionally take on larger build out and renovation projects. With a wide range of skills we can often save you a considerable amount of money by doing jobs that might otherwise require several companies and with over 25 years of experience in the restaurant business we can help to insure that you will be in compliance with health, building, life and safety, and insurance requirements. We have extensive experience working in older buildings and specialize in creative solutions to the everyday problems involved with running and maintaining a restaurant.
Some Links in My Life
A brief history of the company and
myself.
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My brother still lives
there. Visit =Mark's
ReMarkable Website!. An extensive menu collection covering NYC, the Jersey
Shore area, the D.C. area, St. Louis, and others. In addition, original material
and links to more menu collections, reviews, recipes, spicy foods and chiles,
cartoons, music, and mind wasting fun!
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I moved to the D.C. area
to attend Georgetown University where
I received a B.S. in biology and an M.S. in biochemistry. I paid my way through
school by working in area restaurants, starting as busboy and eventually
working my way up to head chef.
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Having learned darkroom
work through courses in electron microscopy, I became interested in photography.
After photographing a number of parties and promotional events for the
restaurants that I worked at, I started Photo Trend Enterprises,
a commercial freelance photographic company. This is the origin of my company
name. My present business, having grown through reputation and word of mouth,
has for many years been at the point where I cannot accept any more accounts.
Therefore, I have never bothered to change the name.
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I finally reached the
point where I was finishing up my PhD., working as a lab instructor, a full
time cook, a part time photographer, and a part time research assistant at NIH. It was time for a choice, and I decided
that my true love was the restaurant industry, although I stayed with the
photography for a while.
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Eventually, I attended L'Academie de Cuisine for my culinary
degree.
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While working as a chef,
both from interest and necessity, I became interested in restaurant repair and
maintenance work, and as I became more skilled, I began doing work for
neighboring restaurants. Eventually, I changed my business license basis, but
not the name. Repair work became a steadily growing part time job.
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After working for one
restaurant for many years, the owner sold the business in January of 1993.
Things continued unchanged for several months. Then, without warning, the new
owners closed the kitchen and fired the entire kitchen staff on the Fourth of
July to reduce labor costs. To change the immortal words of Chief Joseph a
little, I decided that, "I will work for somebody else, no more,
forever". And so, here I am. A long, strange trip indeed!
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Today, I live in Arlington County, just south of
Washington, D.C., in the beautiful Commonwealth
of Virginia.
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