Do you run a restaurant or bar? If so, it’s absolutely crucial that you invest in cellar cooling systems to maintain a temperature controlled environment for your food and drink produce. Beer and wine cellars, and food preparation areas need to remain at an optimum temperature to preserve food and drink so it’s fit to serve to customers. In this article we’ll explore why cooling solutions are essential for your cellar.

Why Cellar Coolers Are Important

Installing cellar coolers in your restaurant or bar is absolutely crucial for maintaining food safety and serving beverages at an optimal temperature to customers.

Safe Food and Drink Handling

The Food Safety Act 1990 and the Food Standards Act 1999 set out the rules and regulations for safe food and drink handling in the UK. It stated that food in restaurant fridges should be maintained between 1 and 6°C to store safely. Otherwise, harmful bacteria can grow on food items and become unsafe to serve to customers. Dairy products, meat and fresh fruit are particularly susceptible to bacteria if incorrectly stored.

That is why using appropriate refrigeration systems and cellar cooler systems is paramount. While most drinks cannot truly spoil, it is possible for incorrectly stored wine to make an individual sick. It’s highly important to maintain temperatures required for safe storage and consumption of food and drink items.

Making a customer ill, or worse; hospitalised, can incur huge reputational damage, fines, and sometimes court rulings. So stay on the safe side and do your duty as a food and drink dispenser; install cellar coolers in your venue.

Improved Customer Experience

Beyond matters of health and safety, taste, quality and presentation are key in providing a positive customer experience. When food or drink is incorrectly stored, it’s taste and appearance are impacted. This is another reason why having cellar coolers is so important for your venue.

Particularly when it comes to serving beer, having a temperature controlled environment to store it is crucial. The taste of beer can be massively impacted if you don’t have beer cellar coolers installed, resulting in a bland or sour taste. It can also cause complications with carbonating your beers, meaning they could be served flatter than recommended.

Additionally, when it comes to wine service, customers expect to have their wine served at the perfect temperature. Red wine should be served slightly below room temperature, between 12 and 18°C. White wine should be served between 7 and 10°C.

However, as a rule of thumb, wine should be stored precisely between 11 and 14°C to avoid oxidisation, which can affect its taste. Maintaining your wine cellar between this range without a cellar cooler is practically impossible.

As you can see, having appropriate temperatures in your food, wine and beer cellars can have a huge impact on the experience of the customer. At the end of the day, food and drink is your business, and anything served below standard will be scrutinised by the customer. Consistent bad service of food and drink is how reputations are ruined and how hospitality venues eventually fail over time.

Choosing the Right Cellar Cooling Systems

Now that we’ve discussed the positive impact of cellar coolers on food and drink safety and quality, let’s look at the kind of cooling systems available.

At Green Cool, our cellar cooler range provides cost effective cooling solutions for your restaurant or bar. We supply J&E Hall products, which are reliable units designed to cool cellars containing large stocks of food and drink products.

There are a range of cooling solutions to choose from, including multi-split systems, which allows you to cool multiple spaces at a time; ducted cooler systems, and standard condensing units. Lower temperature versions are also available to tackle more challenging applications.

Each product comes with installation available, a manual and an electronic control to configure and monitor your cellar cooling systems.

Contact Us

To book cellar cooling installation for your restaurant or bar, contact us at Green Cool today. Our expert team will deliver on all your cooling needs with our range of J&E Hall condensing units. Whatever your venue’s size, location or layout, we have a cooling solution for you.