Foodservice Refrigeration Solutions
Copeland’s decades of expertise and proven solutions help keep food safe for customers, while meeting energy and refrigerant regulations and boosting profits through reduced waste and energy savings.
Where energy savings meet food safety and sustainability
Foodservice operators, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and contractors face mounting pressure to protect food quality and margins. Copeland’s refrigeration solutions for foodservice help ensure food quality and safety by maintaining consistent temperatures. Our technologies meet stringent energy efficiency thresholds, enable transitions to low-global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants and help reduce energy costs. We deliver reliable performance for restaurants, convenience stores, hotel kitchens, catering services and institutional facilities, protecting the bottom line against rising expenses.
Copeland’s solutions help combat high operational costs, improve refrigeration efficiency and protect profitability. We achieve this by helping to reduce food waste, maximize kitchen uptime and control labor costs. Our simple, automation-ready tools accelerate time to market, simplify installations and commissioning and reduce total cost of ownership.
High-performance refrigeration for restaurants, catering services and convenience stores
Copeland delivers a full suite of refrigeration solutions and tools engineered for demanding foodservice environments worldwide. Our industry-leading compressors, condensing units, connected controls and trusted Cooper-Atkins instruments enable fast installs, durable performance and optimal food safety. These technologies, alongside our comprehensive heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) solutions, help owners and operators achieve energy savings and sustainable practices.
Lifecycle services that support food safety and efficiency — every step of the way
Copeland’s comprehensive lifecycle services are designed to enhance maintenance, optimize equipment performance and minimize downtime. This dedication to quality and efficiency ensures our foodservice solutions operate smoothly and deliver precise temperature control and unwavering reliability, ultimately maximizing uptime and return on investment.
Why choose Copeland?
Copeland is a global leader in delivering innovative, sustainable solutions for heating, cooling and refrigeration. Our engineering strength drives continuous innovation in thermal management and our expertise helps foodservice businesses safeguard food quality, enhance productivity and reduce costs. We also maintain strong regulatory stewardship, actively shaping and adhering to the highest standards to ensure compliance and sustainability.
- Energy efficiency: Our systems minimize energy use, help OEMs meet energy regulations and support operators’ sustainability goals.
- Simple installation: Our solutions shorten install times, boost profitability and reduce downtime.
- Reliability and precision: We’re committed to peak efficiency and reliable performance in demanding foodservice operations.
- Comprehensive support: Our extensive aftermarket footprint ensures that support is readily available globally, facilitating faster uptime and minimizing disruptions.
- Engineering and innovation: We leverage our commercial kitchen lab space at the Helix Innovation Center for direct customer collaboration, co-developing solutions that precisely meet market demands and push industry boundaries.
- Regulatory leadership: We partner with global organizations like the U.S. Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency, China's CCFA and European groups like ASERCOM and EPEE to shape energy efficiency standards.
Foodservice solutions in action
Discover how Copeland’s innovative solutions are transforming foodservice operations.
Heat recovery boosts efficiency for a leading Chinese fast food chain
Challenge: A chain restaurant struggled with high kitchen temperatures caused by the heat from a condensing unit. The increased use of air conditioning to manage this heat, alongside reliance on electric heaters for water heating, contributed to substantial energy consumption – a concern for the environment and for the business.
Solution: A customized heat recovery loop system, using Copeland ZX condensing units combined with controls, monitoring and enterprise management systems enabled the fast food chain to increase cost savings by up to 30% and ensure food safety across thousands of branches in China.
Low-GWP refrigerant strategy offers flexibility
Challenge: FBD, a leading frozen beverage dispenser manufacturer serving large restaurants and convenience store chains in the U.S., evaluated its lower-GWP refrigerant strategy to support new product development. They needed a plan that minimized design cycles, ensured compliance and addressed next-gen refrigerant complexities amid evolving regulations and customer needs.
Solution: FBD partnered with Copeland to align compressor platforms with low-GWP refrigerants, selecting the scroll compressor for R-290 prototypes. This enabled FBD to adopt a new refrigerant strategy that offered a balanced and flexible refrigeration solution.
San Diego Convention Center refrigeration retrofit lowers energy use and risk
Challenge: The San Diego Convention Center’s east kitchen faced operational risk from a failing multiplexed condensing system, creating the potential for catastrophic failure of their walk-in coolers and freezer. Additionally, its proximity to the ocean caused significant corrosion issues.
Solution: The failing system was replaced with Copeland outdoor refrigeration unit X-Line Series over seven days, using temporary refrigerated trailers to prevent food loss. This upgrade boosted reliability and energy efficiency, earning a utility rebate and providing superior corrosion resistance.
