Honest, practical advice on commercial refrigeration and shop fitting, from Cold Air Refrigerations & Shop Fittings. Costs, how-tos and what to look for, written for businesses across the UK.
A chiller store is a purpose built walk in cold room that holds stock between 0 and 5 degrees.
A display fridge that drifts above 5°C is more than an annoyance.
Picking a display fridge is one of those jobs where getting it wrong is expensive twice over: once when you buy it, and again when you find it will not fit through the door or trips the ring main.
It is one of the most common questions we get asked in South Yorkshire kitchens and shop back rooms: do you go for a walk-in cold room or just add another upright fridge? The honest answer depends less on the equipment itself and more on your floor space, your delivery pattern and how much you are willing to spend on electricity over the next decade.
Fitting a walk in freezer is one of the bigger investments a Glasgow food business will make, and getting it wrong is expensive to undo.
A display fridge that sits at 8 or 10 degrees instead of below 5 is more than an annoyance.
If you run a shop, pub, butchers or catering business, a walk-in cold room is often cheaper to run per cubic metre than a bank of upright fridges.
If you are pricing up a walk in cold room for a shop, restaurant, butchery or farm business, you will quickly find that quotes vary enormously.
A display fridge drifting up to 8C or 10C is more than an inconvenience; in a shop or cafe it puts your stock and your food safety records at risk.
Getting your cold room size right is one of the most important decisions you will make when fitting out a restaurant kitchen.
A walk-in cold room is rarely an off-the-shelf purchase, so a single figure can be misleading.
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