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Glass Door Cooler

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Glass door coolers are refrigerated merchandisers with see-through doors and interior lighting, built to show bottled drinks, dairy and packaged food to customers while keeping it cold. Convenience stores, cafés, delis, cafeterias and takeout counters use them for self-serve sales, and some kitchens use them where staff need to see stock at a glance. Swing-door and sliding-door models suit different aisle widths.

About commercial glass door coolers

Before you buy

  1. Choose sliding doors where the aisle in front of the cooler is narrow, since an open swing door blocks traffic, and swing doors where customers need a full-width opening to reach deep shelves.
  2. Check how many shelves each section carries and how far apart they adjust, because the height of your tallest bottles or cartons decides how many rows fit.
  3. Plan restocking ahead of busy periods, since a cooler loaded with room-temperature cases takes time to bring them down to serving temperature.
  4. Look at whether the header takes a sign panel if you plan to brand the cooler, and whether the lighting is LED, which puts less heat into the cabinet than older lamps.
  5. Ask whether the doors are self-closing, so a door a customer leaves ajar does not stay open and warm the shelves.

Common questions

What is the difference between a glass door cooler and a glass door reach-in refrigerator?

A glass door cooler, often called a merchandiser, is designed for display, with lighting, signage and shelving laid out to sell packaged product. A glass door reach-in is a kitchen storage cabinet built for pans and ingredients, usually in stainless steel. Some merchandisers are listed only for packaged or bottled products, so check the listing before storing open food in one.

Where should a glass door cooler be placed?

Keep it out of direct sunlight and away from ovens, fryers and heating vents. Check where the condenser takes in and exhausts air, because boxing a cooler into an alcove it was not designed for traps heat and makes it struggle on a warm day.

How much do commercial glass door coolers cost?

List prices on Norpex range from $600 to $16,454.99 CAD, with a median of $2,923.64 across 162 priced models; prices are list prices before tax and shipping.

Which brands of commercial glass door coolers do you carry?

Norpex lists 162 commercial glass door coolers. The brands with the most models listed are Omcan with 59, New Air with 24, Turbo Air with 24, COLDZONE with 14 and Kool-It with 13.

Do you ship commercial glass door coolers across Canada?

Norpex ships to delivery addresses across Canada. Equipment ships from distributor warehouses, so dispatch timing depends on the supplier and the destination. For items that can be bought online, shipping is calculated at checkout from live carrier rates for the delivery address and confirmed before payment. There is no automatic free-shipping or flat-rate offer.

Outfitting a whole location?

Send the list or the floor plan. Project pricing beats cart pricing, and it comes back within one business day.

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