subject: A Walk In Cooler Saves Your Business Money [print this page] A variety of businesses benefit from freezers and coolers, including restaurants and florists - these industries work with perishable items and as such, safe storage in a Walk in cooler can prolong the life of a product and save money for a business.
If you store you perishable items in standing fridges or freezers, you are losing money every day and paying too much on your energy bill. To counter act this one-two punch against your bottom line, purchasing a walk in cooler is an imperative part of any business dealing in items that need to be temperature maintained.
Businesses with a high volume of perishable items are in dire need of a walk in cooler. These coolers give as much space as you need so that your items won't be stacked and cluttered and can be organized so that things are easy to get to. Also, loading and unloading is much easier and the temperature of all items is steady.
Using a large stand up meat freezer for your needs means throwing away money-items at the bottom of a freezer will be more frozen than those on top, nearest to the door. Also, with this kind of stacking storage it is easy to forget about items once they migrate downward. Walk in coolers can keep you organized.
Depending on your needs, walk in coolers can be purchased as coolers, freezers, or a combination of both so there is no need to purchase two separate cooler types. Price wise, it is the size of a cooler that effects the overall price, with larger coolers costing more money and can range anywhere from under $5000 to over $12000.
Determining the amount of storage is simple if you remember that for each cubic foot of space in a walk in, 28 pounds of material can be stored. Finding room for your walk in cooler is not difficult since they can be installed inside or outside of your business.
The inside of a walk in cooler is composed of pre-made panels made from aluminum, stainless steel, G90 galvanized, painted G90 galvanized, and galvalume respectively.
At the lowest price point is G90 galvanized which is both corrosion and dent resistant. The downside to this material is that it cannot be used for floor panels in the food industry.
Aluminum is also a cheap material, but easily dented. The only different between G90 galvanized and painted G90 galvanized is just the paint option, if that is something you're interested in.
The material of galvalume is a combination of the galvanized material and aluminum making it as strong as steel, but very prone to corrosion that the galvanized material on its own is not. Stainless steel is the most expensive, but strongest material and comes in a number of incarnations.
If your business works with perishable items or foods, it doesn't matter what material you pick, you must pick up a walk in cooler.
