In food services, it’s essential to strike the right balance between quality equipment and manageable costs. To expand your range of available fresh food at minimal expense, consider adding a walk-in freezer or cooler to your kitchen. Below are a few ways walk-in coolers can cut expenses, expand your offerings, and boost your business.

How Walk-in Coolers Can Help Your Business

1. Expanded Storage

Success in a restaurant kitchen depends on how smoothly the staff can move around and how easily they can retrieve ingredients from storage. Adding a walk-in freezer, even a closet-sized one, will not only save money by preserving more food for longer, but will also lower the chance of annoying confusion among staff trying to carry out their jobs.

2. Energy Efficiency

Modern walk-in freezer designs are guided by government regulations, and can save significant amounts of energy if properly maintained.

For larger kitchens, a single walk-in cooler is more efficient than a string of individual refrigerators. Additionally, with the use of after-market extras like cold-preserving walk-in curtains and quality insulation, you can extend the life of your walk-in cooler, simplify operations for your staff, and leave a greener footprint.

3. Easy Maintenance

With a standard grease-cutting and disinfecting kitchen spray, an employee will be able to easily wipe down the interior of the walk-in freezer daily to keep food fresh and clean and prevent any unsightly stains. With a traditional fridge, proper cleaning requires the contents to be taken out, where they will thaw during cleaning.

Schedule an annual inspection for the airflow and cooler ventilation and have a certified technician clean the condenser coils once a year to get the most out of your walk-in cooler.

For all of your refrigeration needs, contact South Carolina Mechanical in Conway, SC. Backed by more than a decade of quality service, these certified professionals are on call 24/7, providing walk-in freezer and cooler installation and maintenance, and residential and commercial HVAC inspections and repairs. Call (843) 333-1494 or visit them online to learn more about what they can do for you.