PLACENTIA AND LOS ANGELES, CA— A restaurant kitchen can be a miserable place to work if it isn’t properly ventilated.

Sweltering heat and lingering smoke are sure signs that a commercial kitchen isn’t pulling in fresh air and pumping out hot air effectively, said Massoud Farazandeh, chief executive officer of APS-Hoods, a Santa Ana hood sales company. The headquarters for APS-Hoods is located in Colorado, but the company opened a Placentia fabrication plant in August of last year in an effort to better address the increasing demand for Santa Ana hood installations, as well as its other services throughout California.

“Our job is to ensure that ‘hot and smokey’ describes only food in restaurants, not kitchen conditions,” Farazandeh said.
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PLACENTIA, CA—American Professional Services (APS-Hoods), a Los Angeles hood sales company, recently released its list of three reasons all restaurants and commercial kitchens should maintain routine hood cleaning schedules.

APS-Hoods is headquartered in Colorado, but opened a fabrication facility in Placentia, CA in August 2009 to better address the demand for Los Angeles hood cleanings and other services, said Massoud Farazandeh, chief executive officer of the company. (more…)