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Sector guide · Craven Cooling

Convenience store refrigeration.

Built for the shop that never shuts.

Drinks walls, impulse chillers, frozen aisles, beer caves. We spec, supply and fit refrigeration for convenience stores across the UK — and this is that store in the photo, not a stock image. Walk your shop with us, zone by zone, live prices included.

The dealer’s view · Darren Craven — Founder & Lead Refrigeration EngineerPhotography: our own installsPrices: live catalogue
A refitted convenience store aisle — fresh produce multideck on the left, glass-door ready meals wall on the right, fitted by Craven Cooling
A refitted convenience store aisle — fresh produce multideck on the left, glass-door ready meals wall on the right, fitted by Craven Cooling
0+Chilled & frozen display lines in stock
0Cabinets in one Cardiff store refit
0Days, full forecourt refit — live site
At a glance

Built for busy convenience stores.

Drinks & dairy wall300+ multideck lines
Impulse chiller313 cooler & merchandiser lines
Frozen wall117 glass-door freezer lines
Ice cream chest122 display chest lines
Beer cave & the back room484 cold room & walk-in lines
Food-to-go & slush29 slush · 36 coffee lines
No. 01 — The brief

The shop that never shuts

In a convenience store, the refrigeration is not equipment in the background. It is the shop. Chilled drinks, dairy, ready meals, frozen, ice cream — the cold cabinets carry most of what your customers walk in for, and they do it around the clock, on your electricity bill.

When the cold chain is right, nobody notices. When it’s wrong, you’re binning stock, apologising for warm milk and staring at a half-empty wall on a Friday night. We refit convenience stores for a living — live forecourts, city-centre Premiers, village Nisas — so this guide walks the shop the way we walk a survey: one zone at a time, with the real numbers from our catalogue attached.

A full glass-door soft drinks wall, stocked and lit, in the Premier Shopright store on City Road, Cardiff
The profit engine. The soft drinks wall at Premier Shopright, City Road, Cardiff — part of a thirteen-cabinet, bare-shell-to-trading refit by our engineers.
No. 02 — The buying guide

Walk the shop

Six zones make a convenience store. Here’s each one, what it earns, and where we’d start — with live prices from our catalogue, all + VAT.

Illustrated glass survey plan of a typical convenience store — numbered cold zones around the till, aisles and beer cave 01 02 03 04 05 06 Till Beer cave Entrance

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.

01Drinks & dairy wall02Impulse chiller03Frozen wall04Ice cream chest05Beer cave & the back room06Food-to-go & slush
Zone01

The drinks & dairy wall

300+ multideck lines

The hardest-working metres in the shop. Multidecks carry drinks, dairy and food-to-go — the categories that bring people through the door every day.

All multidecks
TEFCOLD PC2500B glass door multideck display fridge
The dealer’s pickTEFCOLD PC2500B
Size W×D×H2560 × 740 × 2050 mmCapacity2585 LTemp range-1 to +5 °CEnergyClass B · 10.2 kWh/day
£3,374 + VAT
Finance from £18.05/week over 5 years, subject to statusView this product
Zone02

The impulse chiller

313 cooler & merchandiser lines

By the till, by the meal deal, by the door. A single glass-door merchandiser near the counter quietly sells cold drinks all day without taking floor you can’t spare.

All coolers & merchandisers
TEFCOLD FS1380 single glass door merchandiser fridge
The dealer’s pickTEFCOLD FS1380
Size W×D×H595 × 640 × 1840 mmCapacity358 LTemp range+1 to +10 °CEnergyClass D · 2.2 kWh/day
£537 + VAT
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Zone03

The frozen wall

117 glass-door freezer lines

Frozen is the quiet margin-maker — long shelf life, low waste. Glass-door uprights keep it visible and shoppable instead of buried in a lidded box.

All display freezers
TEFCOLD Atom Maxi F2DBB double glass door display freezer
The dealer’s pickTEFCOLD Atom Maxi F2DBB
Size W×D×H1253 × 760 × 2003 mmCapacity1006 LTemp range-22 to -18 °CEnergyClass D · 17.47 kWh/day
£2,228 + VAT
Finance from £11.92/week over 5 years, subject to statusView this product
Zone04

The ice cream chest

122 display chest lines

First warm week of the year, this is the busiest cabinet you own. Sliding glass lids, low running cost, and it starts under four hundred quid.

All display chests
TEFCOLD IC101SC sliding glass lid ice cream chest freezer
The dealer’s pickTEFCOLD IC101SC
Size W×D×H570 × 570 × 897 mmCapacity108 LTemp range-24 to -14 °CEnergyClass D · 1.21 kWh/day
£387 + VAT
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Zone05

The beer cave & the back room

484 cold room & walk-in lines

A walk-in does two jobs: bulk cold storage out back, or — like this one we built in Cardiff — a destination beer cave your customers cross town for.

All cold rooms
The walk-in beer cave entrance at Premier Shopright Cardiff, beside the red wine bay — built by Craven Cooling
The dealer’s pickWalk-ins are sized to the roomStart with our cold room sizing calculator, then we’ll survey
Zone06

Food-to-go & slush

29 slush · 36 coffee lines

Slush, shakes and bean-to-cup coffee turn a corner of the store into a destination for the school run — high-margin serves from a metre of counter.

All slush machines
Polar U-series 12 litre slush machine
The dealer’s pickPolar U-series 12L
Size W×D×H940 × 610 × 280 mmCapacity12 LTemp range-12 to -2 °C
£990 + VAT
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In our catalogue right now 0 chilled & frozen display lines — in stock and priced

Not a brochure. Every line above links to a live price on our site, today. If it’s on this page, you can buy it, finance it or ask us to fit it.

No. 03 — The dealer’s column

The dealer’s verdict

What we’d tell you across the counter, before a penny changes hands.

We fit whole stores

Rip-out, pipework, remote condensing packs, commissioning — choreographed around your trading hours and your deliveries. Live forecourts included. The proof is in the installs below.

Doors when they pay

Open fronts sell more on impulse; doors cost far less to run. We’ll tell you straight which side of that trade your shop is on — not just sell you the dearer cabinet.

Stock that’s in stock

1,800+ display lines with real prices, deep TEFCOLD-family availability, short lead times, 2-year parts warranty — and our own service engineers after handover.

Where we’d slow you down

Don’t buy the biggest multideck the wall fits — buy the one your stock turn fills. Integral cabinets dump their heat back into a small shop; three or more big cabinets, price a remote system. And a serve-over counter rarely earns its keep in a c-store — spend that money on the drinks wall.

No. 04 — The range

One van. The whole store.

Hot cabinets to slush machines to the cups on the coffee station — 34,000+ products in the catalogue today, and climbing toward 50,000. The cold is where we start, not where we stop.

863 heated display & storage linesHot cabinets, cupboards and countertop merchandisers for the food-to-go counter. 824 ice, slush & dispenser linesSlush, coffee and ice — the destination corner of the shop. 1,887 cleaning & warewashing linesChemicals, sinks and machines behind every food-to-go counter. 16,803 serve-ware & tableware linesCups, trays and serve-ware for the coffee and hot food side.
No. 05 — On location

Real shops. Real installs.

Not renders, not showrooms — convenience stores our engineers fitted, photographed on handover day.

Inside the walk-in beer cave at Premier Shopright, City Road, Cardiff Cardiff · Full-store refit

Bare shell to beer cave

Thirteen cabinets, a walk-in beer cave, every delivery choreographed to the minute.

 The refurbished forecourt store at Aberdare Service Station Aberdare · Forecourt refit

Refit on a live forecourt

A complete refrigeration and air-conditioning package, inside a one-week programme.

 Inside the rebuilt drinks cave at Kenfig Hill Superstore Kenfig Hill · Fire rebuild

Back, and bigger

A fire gutted the store. We rebuilt the entire refrigeration package — trading again in two months.

 New refrigeration cabinets installed at Nisa Newton Abbot Newton Abbot · Cabinet swap

Nisa, renewed

Old kit out, new cabinets in — a working store upgraded without missing a day.
The drinks wall pays for the shop. Spec it like you mean it.
The Craven Cooling install team · Swansea
No. 06 — Running costs

What it costs to run

A convenience store cabinet runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The buying price is half the story — the meter tells the rest.

Efficient doored cabinet — 6 kWh/day≈ £548/year

Worked example at £0.25/kWh (kWh/day × 365 × unit rate). Check any cabinet’s real consumption with our energy label decoder — a £547-a-year gap is £2,738 over five years, which buys a lot of cabinet.

No. 07 — Plan it

Plan it before you plumb it

Only from Craven Cooling

Lay your shop out in 3D. Free.

Drag real cabinets — with real prices — around a 3D model of your floor plan. Check the aisle widths, total the kit, get a finance figure and send us the layout. No other refrigeration dealer in the UK gives you this.

Open the 3D planner Or just call us
Impulse uplift calculatorWhat an extra few chilled sales a day pays back on a multideck. Bottle cooler ROIExtra bottles per night against a live cooler price. Honest verdicts. Finance calculatorTurn any cabinet over £1,000 into a weekly figure, subject to status. Fridge finderAnswer five questions, get the right cabinet type with live picks.
No. 08 — From the catalogue

Live from the range

Straight from the catalogue — tap a zone. Prices are pulled live from the site as the page loads.

No. 09 — Q & A

Asked across the counter

What refrigeration does a convenience store actually need?
Most convenience stores run five zones: a multideck drinks and dairy wall, an impulse chiller near the till, a glass-door frozen wall, an ice cream chest, and back-of-house storage — a chest freezer or upright, or a walk-in room if the store carries volume. Bigger stores add a beer cave or food-to-go station. You don’t need everything on day one; you need the right cabinet in the zone that earns most, which is almost always the drinks wall.
Open-front or glass doors on the drinks wall?
Open-front multidecks sell more on impulse — nothing between the customer and the product. Glass doors cut the cabinet’s energy use dramatically and hold temperature better in warm shops. Our honest rule: if your margins are tight and the shop trades long hours, doors usually win over five years. Run your own numbers with our energy label decoder before you decide.
Integral or remote refrigeration for a small store?
Integral cabinets plug in and go, but every one of them dumps its waste heat back into the shop — in a small store with six cabinets that’s a hot, noisy sales floor and harder-working kit in summer. Remote systems put the condensing units outside, like the J&E Hall packs we fit on our store refits. Remote costs more up front and needs proper installation, but the shop is cooler, quieter and the cabinets last better. If you’re fitting three or more large cabinets, ask us to price both.
Can you refit a store that’s still trading?
Yes — it’s most of what we do. We refitted Aberdare Service Station on a live forecourt inside a one-week programme, and rebuilt Kenfig Hill Superstore’s entire refrigeration package after a fire. Rip-out, new pipework, condensing units and commissioning get choreographed around your deliveries and your busiest hours.
What does convenience store refrigeration cost?
From our live catalogue: ice cream chest freezers from around £387 + VAT, impulse glass-door merchandisers from around £537 + VAT, glass-door display freezers from around £899 + VAT, and doored multidecks from around £1,736 + VAT. A full drinks wall or whole-store package is priced to the site — tell us the shop and we’ll spec it. Finance is available on equipment over £1,000, subject to status.
Do you install as well as supply?
We supply, deliver, install, commission and service — UK-wide, from our Swansea base. Everything carries a 2-year parts warranty, and our own engineers come back after handover: servicing and maintenance is part of the business, not an afterthought.
One call covers the lot

Tell us the shop. We’ll spec the store.

Send us a floor plan, a photo, or just the postcode. One call covers survey, supply, installation, commissioning — and the engineers who come back afterwards.

Call 01792 732702 Plan it in 3D
Craven Cooling · Sector guideSwansea · 01792 732702