Sector guide · Craven Cooling
Café & coffee shop equipment.
The counter is the shop window. Build it cold.
Patisserie displays, coffee machines, ovens, blenders, ice machines — and the cups it all gets served in. That’s The Crazy Baker & Co in the photo: a brand-new Swansea café we designed and fitted front to back for opening day. Walk your café with us, zone by zone, live prices included.
0Patisserie display lines in stock
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At a glance
Built for busy cafés & coffee shops.
Patisserie display198 cake display lines
Undercounter & prep246 counter fridge lines
Grab-and-go drinks313 cooler & merchandiser lines
Glasswasher corner127 glasswasher lines
Coffee side36 bean-to-cup lines
No. 01 — The brief
Where the margin lives
A café earns its living twice: once on the coffee, once on what the customer picks up while they wait. Both depend on cold — the cake display that makes the decision for them, the milk that never runs warm, the cold brew and cans by the till.
The kit list for a café is short but every piece works all day: a patisserie display at the counter, refrigerated prep and milk storage below it, a grab-and-go cabinet, and a glasswasher that turns cups around faster than the queue builds. Get those four right and the shop runs itself. This guide walks each one with real prices from our catalogue.
No. 02 — The buying guide
Walk the café
Five zones make a café. Here’s each one, what it earns, and where we’d start — with live prices from our catalogue, all + VAT.
A typical layout, drawn the way we survey one. Tap a zone number to jump to its kit — no two shops are the same, so plan yours in 3D.
The patisserie display
198 cake display linesThe first thing every customer looks at while they order. Curved or flat glass, ambient or chilled — this cabinet sells the second item.
All cake displays
The dealer’s pickPolar U-Series Deli Display Fridge 485Ltr UA062
Size W×D×H1200 × 1500 × 680 mmCapacity485 LTemp range+2 to +8 °CEnergyClass B · 5.64 kWh/day
Undercounter & prep
246 counter fridge linesMilk, prep and back-up stock within arm’s reach of the machine. A refrigerated counter saves a walk to the back room on every single order.
All counter fridges
The dealer’s pickFagor Concept 700 Gastronorm Counter Fridge 2 Door CCP-2G FU022
Size W×D×H850 × 1342 × 700 mmCapacity143 LEnergyClass B · 2.06 kWh/dayPower0.203 W
Grab-and-go drinks
313 cooler & merchandiser linesCans, juices, iced coffee, water. A slim glass-door merchandiser near the till sells cold drinks all day from half a square metre.
All coolers & merchandisers
The dealer’s pickIMC Mistral M60 Bottle Cooler 119Ltr F77/151 FP721
Size W×D×H850 × 600 × 500 mmCapacity133 LTemp range+2 to +6 °CEnergyClass C · 1.62 kWh/day
The glasswasher corner
127 glasswasher linesNothing kills service speed like running out of clean cups mid-rush. A proper undercounter glasswasher turns a rack around in minutes.
All glasswashers
The dealer’s pickDC SXD45A IS Standard Extra Dishwashers – frontloading 450×450
The coffee side
36 bean-to-cup linesBean-to-cup for consistency, traditional for theatre — either way it’s the engine of the shop, and it deserves kit that holds up to the queue.
All bean-to-cup machines
The dealer’s pickBravilor Bolero Turbo 43 Instant Drinks Machine with Installation and Training JC852
Size W×D×H845 × 326 × 504 mmPower3000 W
In our catalogue right now
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coffee & hot drinks equipment lines — in stock and priced
Machines, grinders, water boilers and the cold kit around them. Every line links to a live price on our site, today.
No. 03 — The dealer’s column
The dealer’s verdict
What we’d tell you across the counter, before a penny changes hands.
The display sells the cake
A tired cabinet makes fresh baking look like yesterday’s. Good glass, good light and the right temperature band lift the take on every tray you put in.
Small footprint, full duty
Café kit runs all day in a warm, busy room. We spec compact cabinets that are rated for it — not domestic lookalikes that quit the first summer.
One call, whole counter
Display, undercounter, glasswasher, coffee — we supply and install the lot, with a 2-year parts warranty and our own service engineers afterwards.
Where we’d slow you down
Don’t buy a bigger patisserie display than your baking fills — a half-empty cabinet sells nothing. Sort the glasswasher before the second grinder; clean cups win more customers than faster espresso. And check the energy class on anything that runs 24/7 — our energy decoder does the maths.
No. 04 — The range
One van. The whole café.
Cups to coffee machines, ladles to ice cream. 34,000+ products in the catalogue today — and climbing toward 50,000. The cold is where we start, not where we stop. All live-priced, all one supplier.
7,970 pieces of crockeryPlates, bowls, ramekins — the tableware the menu is served on.
1,240 cups, mugs & saucersEspresso to latte to takeaway — the other half of the coffee programme.
221 ice cream display & machinesScooping displays, soft serve, sliding-lid freezers — the summer queue.
577 kitchen utensilsWhisks, tongs, scoops — and yes, thirty-nine kinds of ladle.
No. 05 — On location
Real shops. Real installs.
A real counter, built by our engineers — photographed on the job.
Swansea · New store fit-out
Built for the opening-day rush
An awkward unit in the city centre, a fixed opening day — designed, fitted and commissioned front-of-house to back.
Ringwood · Counter install
A café counter, one day’s closure
New serve-over supplied, installed and commissioned — the shop poured coffee again the next morning.
Clean cups, cold milk, cake in the light. That’s a café working.The Craven Cooling install team · Swansea
No. 06 — Running costs
What it costs to run
Café cabinets run all day in a warm room — the buying price is half the story.