Glass door walk-in coolers and beer caves
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Glass door walk-in coolers and freezers, walk-in beer coolers and beer caves for convenience stores, gas stations, package stores and supermarkets, straight runs or L-shapes, with heated glass doors. Sized to meet your needs; nothing is so complicated we cannot do it.
A glass door walk-in cooler, also called a display walk-in cooler or glass door display cooler, is a walk-in cooler or freezer with a run of glass doors on the sales-floor side: customers reach in from the store, and you restock from inside the box. A beer cave is the same idea one step further: a glass door walk-in customers walk into, so the whole cold room is sales floor.
Frigid Coolers LLC in Miami, Florida draws and quotes glass door walk-ins for convenience stores, gas stations, package stores and supermarkets anywhere in the United States, the Caribbean and South America, usually the same day. We quote and sell the best-known heated glass doors in the industry, a mainstay since 1958. When a door has been around that long, you know it holds up.
Planning a store? The convenience store walk-in cooler guide covers door counts, beer caves, back-room space and what to send for a quote.
Straight, L-shape, beer cave
Every display box is drawn for its wall, its door count and its traffic. These are the shapes that come up most.
Heated glass doors
The doors are quoted and sold with the walk-in, so the door openings and the panels are engineered together instead of matched on site.
- In the glass door business since 1958: still innovating and still ahead of every competing manufacturer.
- LED lighting and shelving available with the doors, so the product is lit and the customer can reach it.
- Heated glass doors for cooler and freezer duty. Our approval drawings specify Model 401 heated glass doors. See a real approval drawing.
- Door count to suit the wall: from three doors to as many as the run will take.
See the drawings first
Take a look at the samples in the drawing gallery: dimensioned plan and elevation with the evaporator and door callouts. That is the sheet you approve before your order goes in.
Glass Door Walk-In Coolers FAQ
Is a display walk-in cooler the same as a glass door walk-in cooler?
Yes. Display walk-in cooler, glass door walk-in cooler and glass door display cooler all describe a walk-in with a run of heated glass doors facing the sales floor: customers take product through the glass and staff restock from inside. We build them as coolers or freezers, as a straight run, an L-shape or a beer cave customers walk into.
What size glass door walk-in cooler does a convenience store need?
Start from the wall. Across more than 650 beer cave quotes, the median box is about 220 sq ft with 11 glass doors; the middle half run 5 to 16 doors and about 130 to 360 sq ft, and about half are 8 ft tall. Your wall length, the depth you can give up behind it and your delivery route decide the right size. The convenience store guide shows how to work it out.
What is the difference between a display walk-in and a beer cave?
Who goes inside. A display walk-in keeps the customer on the sales floor reaching through glass doors; staff restock from inside. A beer cave is a display walk-in the customer walks into, so the cold room itself is the display and the doors are the entrance.
How many glass doors can I have?
From a small 3-door run to as many doors as the wall will take. Each box is built to your specifications. The door count, the wall length and the ceiling height decide the layout; the refrigeration is then sized to the glass, because every door is heat coming in.
Do you build display freezers too?
Yes. Display glass door walk-in freezers use the same layouts at freezer temperature, with the insulated floor, the door heater and the electric-defrost refrigeration every freezer we supply includes.
Which glass doors do you use?
Premium heated glass doors, quoted and sold with the walk-in, with LED lighting and shelving available. Our approval drawings specify the Model 401 heated glass door.
Do you offer sliding glass doors?
Yes. Two-leaf sliding glass door sets, 48 to 96 inches wide by 60 or 72 inches high, for walls where a swing door has no room. They are described on the flower coolers page and quoted with the walk-in like any other door. For a solid insulated sliding door at the entrance, see cooler and freezer sliding doors.
Can I add a view window?
Yes, small or large beer cave walk-ins with view windows are a standard request. Tell us which wall faces the store.
What do you need from me for a quote?
The length of wall available to the sales floor, the ceiling height, the depth you can give up behind it, how many doors you want, and whether it is a cooler, a freezer or both. A rough sketch of the store helps. You get a dimensioned approval drawing to sign off before anything is built. For a convenience store or gas station, the convenience store guide walks through it step by step.
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Send the wall length, the ceiling height and the door count you have in mind. We will draw the run and put a real number on it.