How Cold Rooms Can Help Food Delivery Businesses
A walk-in cold room is a brilliant cold storage solution for food businesses that require cold storage while pre-prepared food products await distribution. A walk-in cold room can be an effective way to keep fresh ingredients, cooked produce and perishable packaged items fresher for longer, saving you money and time.
Cold Rooms For Food Box Delivery Businesses
There has been a huge rise in the number of food box delivery options available for consumers, and this fast-paced industry relies on fresh produce and high-quality ingredients. A cold room provides a great way to monitor, store and organise produce and finished boxes, and it can be set at the optimum temperature to maintain freshness.
Reducing Waste
With any food business, it’s likely that you’ll experience a certain level of waste and spoilage, but in order to be as profitable as possible, business owners need to reduce this wherever they can. A modular cold room can be easily organised so you can separate sensitive ingredients and clearly see what items are in date or due to go off. Proper refrigeration can greatly increase the shelf-life of products so you don’t need to order as much as often.
Scaling Up Your Business
As your business grows, you might run low on space in a standard cold storage unit, so it’s worth considering a dedicated cold room to keep your products fresh. If you’re ordering component food items and ingredients in bulk, you’ll need somewhere you can store them, without having to worry about contamination or changes in temperature. It’s also important that as you scale your business, you make sure everything is properly labelled and any allergens are kept separate from other products. A walk-in cold room can also be designed to provide space to assemble food boxes and store completed packages, as well as organise raw materials.
Ensuring Food Hygiene
As you’re delivering food directly to people’s homes, it’s essential that you meet all of the relevant health and safety guidelines for food storage and transportation. If your food delivery box contains ingredients like meat or cheese, you’ll need to keep them at the correct temperature until they are ready to be used. The advantage of a modular cold room is that you can allocate sealed, temperature-controlled areas to store different categories of goods, so that produce is kept at optimum temperature right up to the moment it is needed.
Call Us Today
At MTCSS, we offer bespoke cold room solutions to suit a wide range of businesses, from small start-ups to major producers. If you own a food box delivery company and you need a reliable food storage facility, call us today and we can create the ideal cold storage solution for your business.
