Refrigeration is essential for keeping produce, meat, dairy, and other food fresh in all kinds of settings. But refrigeration at home is very different from commercial refrigeration. If you are starting a restaurant, own a grocery store, or require commercial refrigeration for any other reason, it’s important to know how commercial refrigeration is different from regular refrigeration.
In this article, we’ll go over a few key differences between commercial and residential refrigeration.
- Temperature Control: While a typical refrigerator you might use at home allows you some level of control over the internal temperature, it doesn’t compare to commercial refrigeration. Commercial refrigeration offers much more precise control over the temperature. The controls are more complex and there may be auto defrost cycles.
- Ventilation: Commercial refrigeration requires air circulation, whereas residential refrigeration does not. Proper ventilation allows the refrigerator to maintain consistent temperatures throughout the unit, which is important since commercial refrigerators tend to be much larger. In addition, walk-in refrigerators have people coming in and out all the time, which could affect the temperature if they’re not properly ventilated.
- Regulatory Compliance: At home, you only have yourself to answer to when you don’t have good refrigeration practices. Commercial refrigeration needs to comply with health and safety regulations for your business to protect customers from illness and itself from liability issues.
Understanding commercial refrigeration is important if you use this technology for your business. If you would like to learn more about it or receive repairs for your unit, contact us at SOS Refrigeration & HVAC LLC.