Why your refrigeration runs 24/7 when it doesn't need to
Walk into most commercial kitchens after midnight and you'll hear the same thing: compressors cycling, fans running, plant doing exactly what it was told to do years ago — regardless of whether anyone is cooking, serving or stocking.
Energy bills won't tell you this. They aggregate everything into a single number. A Discovery Assessment does something different: it observes how plant actually runs against how the business actually operates.
What we typically find
- Defrost schedules that don't match delivery or service patterns
- Setpoints left unchanged after menu or trading-hour changes
- Plant rooms running ventilation harder than the equipment needs
- Secondary circuits left active when primary loads are idle
Many of these are operational fixes — no capital spend, measurable within weeks if you agree the baseline upfront.
When technology makes sense
Refrigeration optimisation technologies suit some estates well and others not at all. We assess compressor profiles, operating hours and load patterns before anything appears in a Discovery Assessment Report and Roadmap.