If you’re supplying food and drink to your customers, then a commercial refrigerator is essential for your business.
Not only does it help keep your stock from spoiling, but it also helps you show off your products in the best way possible – enticing your customers into making a purchase.
However, a lot goes into keeping it – and thus, your products – in good condition. Including how you organize the shelves inside.
Here are five useful tips on how to organize your commercial refrigerator.
1. Arrange in ‘sell by’ order.
Ensuring that the contents of your commercial refrigerator are all still in date is one of the most vital aspects of maintaining it. But it can be tricky at times.
To do this, you should check items regularly to ensure they’re still fit for sale – removing any products that have passed their sell-by dates.
Placing products with the nearest sell-by dates at the front of your refrigerator will help them sell before they need to be throwing out, and you can keep ‘fresher’ products towards the back of your unit, moving them forward as their sell-by dates approach.
By doing this, you’ll always have a steady, constant flow of fresh, ready-to-be-sold produce.
2. Store meat items on the lowest shelves.
If you sell meat products, it’s best to keep them on the lowest shelf of your commercial refrigerator, simply as a food safety precaution.
As meats thaw or marinate, faulty food storage containers and accidental spills could contaminate your other food products stored below the meat. If kept on the bottom shelf, it will drip through to the floor and can be cleaned up easily.
3. Keep items off the floor.
Again, keeping your produce off the floor is a health and safety requirement in all commercial kitchens.
So, to avoid storing anything on the floors of your commercial refrigerator, only order what you know can fit in your fridge.
4. Keep fresh produce away from the fans.
Internal commercial refrigerator fans can potentially damage any items – such as fresh greens or delicate berries – stored near them.
You should far any products that are susceptible to damage as far away from the refrigerator fan vents as possible or in sealed containers so that they can maintain their integrity.
5. Label your shelves.
Correctly labeling your shelves is a good way to ensure that you and your employees know exactly where everything is at all times.
It’s also helpful with storage and organization, especially when stocking new products.
Need more commercial refrigeration advice?
For further advice on organizing your commercial refrigerator, be sure to contact the commercial refrigeration experts over at J&M Refrigeration.
They’d be more than happy to help and provide more tips so that you can get the most out of your commercial refrigerator.
