ground fault and shunt trip devices in commercial kitchens

[Rref]

If you are suppose to shunt trip any 125v devices underneath an exhaust hood, and all 125v, 15-20amp devices in the same kitchen shall be protected by ground fault devices (breakers or receptacles), Then what do you do when you have a device that falls under both of thos rules and requires shunt tripping because of being underneath the hood, but in the other hand, also requires ground fault protection. I really didn't want to use a GFCI receptacle on a shunt trip breaker because that would locate the GFCI receptacle behind a rather large gas stove (where it would be very hard to reset should it trip)

 

[dpc]

So if the receptacle is going to be hard to reset, won't it be hard to use in the first place? Maybe it's in the wrong place. GFCI breakers are a pain in neck in general. Can you feed through from another GFCI receptacle to this one?

 

[davidbeach]

You can also get "Blank" GFCI devices that fit like receptacles but don't have the holes and are used to provide GFCI protection for a receptacle at a different location. GFCI breakers are just trouble and almost never the best solution.

If you need to shunt trip more than just a handful of circuits it may be less expensive, and far simpler, to have a panel dedicated to shunt trip load and just shunt trip the panel main.