| The food sales and food service operations represent the majority of the
refrigeration applications: Food sales operations typically include grocery stores, meat
markets, delicatessens, supermarkets, and food lockers. Food service
situations are restaurants, cafes, drug stores serving food, taverns, grills, tea rooms,
cafeterias, dining rooms, carryouts, delicatessens, and stadium concession
stands.
Other common refrigeration uses are for beverage cooling at taverns, bars,
service stations, offices, employee break rooms, water cooling in offices, stores,
service establishments, public buildings recreation area, and theaters, and
ice making such as cube and block ice for retail sales, fresh food display and as
a hotel/motel amenity.
In addition, refrigeration is commonly used in institutions, hotels,
hospitals, schools, and in special applications such as cold storage for such products
and applications as flowers, medicines, candies, fresh fruits and vegetables,
photo processing, laboratory supplies, fishing bait, and morgues.
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