The hospitality, restaurant and catering industries of today benefit greatly from the use of commercial cold rooms. A walk-in cold room can improve the efficiency of a business, cut costs and ensure food is easily accessible in a busy environment. Similar advantages can be found when using a walk-in freezer for your food business.
Many food establishments believe that walk-in freezer storage is more effective than a regular freezer because it can be modified for multiple applications. If you need to use the room as frozen pallet storage, to store bulk stock or otherwise, a modular freezer room can be adapted accordingly.
Whether you’re a street-food vendor, restaurant, coffee shop, restaurant or anything in between, walk-in freezers have countless benefits. Let’s explore some of these below:
Benefits of a Freezer Room
Storage Booster
When working within the restaurant or hospitality industry, extra storage space always seems like a scarce luxury, but that’s exactly what a freezer room provides.
The rooms save the need to have a bulky fridge-freezer on the kitchen floor and opens up a lot of floor space, space that can be better used for additional cupboards or commercial catering equipment that need to be within closer reach than your food stock.
An on-site or off-site freezer storeroom also allows businesses to keep enough stock to cater to busier periods than usual, Christmas for example, and there is additional space to keep a larger variety of stock to trial new menus or products to expand your business horizons.
Increase Stock Longevity
While we’re on the topic of increasing stock volumes thanks to your new storage space, you can also increase the lifespan of your stocks.
Any high-quality freezer or cold room will have very minimal – hopefully, no – temperature fluctuations which will preserve any food items for a prolonged period. Even the slightest temperature change can be lethal for food, which will then turn into a costly error for your food business.
Whether you’re freezing fish, meat or pre-cooked meals, a freezer with an even temperature will ensure that your products are safely stored and that your food will be fit for human consumption for months to come, which also greatly reduces food wastage.
Quicker and Easier Access to Foods
There aren’t many business environments that are more stressful than a busy commercial kitchen. So, the last thing your busy staff need is to be scrambling around in multiple small freezers that are crammed to the brim, looking for food in a hurry.
The excess space in cold storage rooms allows the stock to be organised in a clear and orderly fashion, all in one place, and with adequate space for staff to manoeuvre around the room freely and without stress. This also increases staff productivity and efficiencies.
Temperature Flexibility
So I know we’re telling you the benefits of using a walk-in freezer, which probably means you’re here because you need to deep-freeze food items. But, what if that day ends and you need to keep fresh produce at a chilled temperature, such as fruit and vegetables? Well, you can do that too!
Dephna’s cold rooms have temperature controls that allow you to change the room’s temperature to ambient, chilled or freezing. So, should the nature of your business change, the cold room environment can adjust accordingly.
Our walk-in freezer rooms are certified for use in the food industries, and for any other business requiring a frozen environment to store products, such as medical. They are well maintained, so if you face issues that need repairing due to technical faults – we’ll handle that.
The best thing, our freezer rooms are also on the same site as our catering, commercial and dark kitchens.
Contact us for more information or to arrange a viewing of one of our North London kitchens and cold room sites!
