Two Years of Cooler Connection

Cooler Connection started publishing articles two years ago in January 2009. We have always aimed to be a trusted voice in the walk-in refrigeration industry, with articles that are useful to walk-in owners in the convenience store, grocery and foodservice industries. Many of these articles can save you time, money or educate you on a subject. We have compiled a list of several of our most useful articles you may have missed over the past couple of years.

Articles you may have missed:

Maintaining Your Walk-in Cooler or Freezer

Tips to keep your walk-in clean and operating efficiently.
Operating Cost for Walk-in Coolers and Freezers

Get a rough estimate of the cost per month to run your walk-in cooler or walk-in freezer.

Cooler Insulation- Extruded Polystyrene Vs. Polyurethane

Comparing the effectiveness of the two most common insulations used in walk-ins.

Preventative Maintenance for Refrigeration Systems

How to keep your refrigeration running trouble-free for years.

Retrofitting LED Lights Can Pay Off In Your C-store

Learn about the advantages of replacing your existing fluorescent lighting with LED lighting.

Own a restaurant? Tips to save time, energy, and money.

Twelve tips to make your restaurant more efficient.

Walk-in Cooler & Freezer Shopping Tips

What to be aware of when shopping for walk-in coolers and freezers.

Walk-in Installation Tips

Guidelines to follow for a problem-free setup of your walk-in.

New Website walkincoolerparts.com

Has your walk-in cooler or freezer seen a lot of use and abuse over the years? Door parts on walk-ins are particularly susceptible due to heavy traffic and may become worn or break. In the past we have exclusively provided walk-in parts for our units by calling our parts line 866-261-2797 (8-5PM CST). U.S. Cooler is proud to announce the launch of our new parts website walkincoolerparts.com. The site will allow you to create an account and save items in your cart to be purchased at a later date. It also offers the convenience of 24/7 ordering, free shipping, secure checkout and no minimum purchase amounts.

Currently, our online catalog only offers parts that are standard on U.S. Cooler walk-ins. These include hinges, gaskets, closers, cam locks, light fixtures, screeding, handles and more. In the coming months, we will begin adding additional items to our catalog encompassing parts that require specific sizing or aren’t found on U.S. Cooler manufactured units.

Walk-in Cooler Parts accepts Visa, Discover, and Mastercard. Appropriate sales taxes will be charged for shipments to Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, and Texas.

New Mobile Site uscooler.mobi

U.S. Cooler now offers a mobile site http://uscooler.mobi for our dealers and customers on the go with smartphones. This site will allow you to check the status of your order from the main page (all you need is the job number and dealer phone number). As you’re completing a job you can easily pull up installation instructions or our troubleshooting guide. You can also find dealer sales websites, call U.S. Cooler, size refrigeration and more.

Currently we are not automatically redirecting mobile users from uscooler.com to uscooler.mobi. Users will have to type in uscooler.mobi or through the “Mobile Website” link on uscooler.com under the heading Company Info. What are your opinions of automatic redirection from standard to mobile websites? Is there any other information you would find useful on our mobile website?

U.S. Cooler Flickr Photostream

Visit U.S. Cooler’s new Flickr photostream. Flickr is a photo and video sharing site owned by Yahoo. You can view pictures of our completed walk-ins and promotional photos. These pictures represent the wide range of custom design possibilities available for your walk-in cooler, freezer or combination unit.

New Blog Features

You may have noticed the “listen now” icon above every blog post. If you find the information on our blog useful but are tired of all the pesky reading, simply click the icon and the article will be read for you. From there you can continue to browse the internet at your leisure while listening to the article. Additionally, you may download an mp3 file of any article for listening at a later time or automatically have our “podcast” sent to your iTunes account.

Also for your convenience, we now have a version of this blog designed for mobile phones. Simply visit mobile.uscooler.com from your mobile device. If you have a QR Code enabled phone, you can scan this picture to be taken to our mobile site. If you don’t have QR Code application on your phone, you can visit http://reader.kaywa.com from your phone’s browser to download Kaywa Reader.

Cooler Connection QR Code

Sign Up to Receive Our New Newsletter

We have just completed the first issue of our newsletter “Cooler Connection News”. You can subscribe to our newsletter or view the online version.

In this issue we detail NAFEM 2009, the Department of Energy Meeting, New Hybrid Panels and more.

This will be a monthly newsletter and future editions will have more focus on news from around the industry.

If newsletters aren’t your style, you can always check this blog for the latest info, or sign up for our RSS feed.

Find a U.S. Cooler Salesperson with our new territory map

Now you can find, email, or call any of our sales staff or sales support. Just navigate to the pin in the color coded territory you live in to pull up your salesperson’s contact information.

U.S. Cooler Sales Territory Map

Navigate to the U.S. Cooler Territory Map.

U.S. Cooler literature now online for printing or download.

Discount dealers and consumers can now visit our walk-in literature page. Find everything from information about insulation to glass doors and refrigeration units.

All the files are in pdf format. You will need a pdf reader to view them.

Ebay items listed 1/20/09

This is the full list of US Cooler Ebay Items.

These are the current items U.S. Cooler is selling on Ebay.

Walk-in Freezer/Cooler Application Pages

U.S. Cooler is always looking to expand into new markets. We have posted new pages on our website for the various applications U.S. Cooler designs walk-ins for.

If you can dream it, U.S. Cooler can build it.

They are as follows:

Bars Pubs Nightclub – Keg and Beer Coolers

Convenience Store Reach-in Display Coolers / Beer Caves

Cold Storage Warehouses

Floral Storage and Display Walk-ins

Grocery and Supermarket Walk-ins

Game Lockers for Hunters

Funeral Home Body Storage Coolers

Restaurant Coolers & Freezers