Why this back bar fridge earns its place
The Elstar EM300 is an upright back bar cooler built to merchandise bottled and canned drinks at the point of service. A single hinged glass door fronts a 0.6 m² display area, and the black exterior over a hammered aluminium interior is finished to stand on show at the bar rather than tucked away in a back store. It is a display-and-serve cabinet: stock stays chilled and visible within reach of whoever is pulling drinks.
It holds a +2 to +8 °C band suited to bottled beer, wine, soft drinks and mixers, with automatic electric defrost so there is no manual routine to run. Cooling is on R600a refrigerant with an 85 g charge, and the cabinet is rated at 56 dB, worth bearing in mind when siting it in a quieter front-of-house area. At 744.6 kWh a year (energy class B, EEI 15.5%) it costs about £186 a year to run at 25p/kWh.
Internally the cabinet measures 535 × 424 × 1437 mm (W×D×H) and it ships crated at 655 × 570 × 2028 mm, so check delivery access and doorways against the packed size. It runs from a standard 13-amp socket on a 220-240 V/50 Hz supply, draws 170 W, and weighs 98 kg net (114 kg gross).
