How to Choose the Best Cake Display Fridge for Your Business

What does a cake display fridge do?

Cake display fridges are designed to showcase fresh food items such as cakes, bakeries, sushi rolls and all other foods. So, they always come with clear glass surrounds and bright LED lighting, so people can see them well from all angles. Thanks to the LED lights, what’s on display looks stand-out, getting attention from a passer-by. Because a cake fridge stores food items inside, it needs to be internally refrigerated to keep all items fresh for long hours. Without refrigeration, inside stocks may go bad in a short period of time. When you look around food courts or restaurants, you will easily see cake display fridges in front of nearly every store. This proves this kind of commercial fridges is a crucial piece of equipment for most of catering businesses.

What features to look for in a cake display case?

Layer of glasses: there are double or triple layers of glasses used for cake displays in the market. The more layer, the more insulated and get less impacted by ambient temperature and humidity.
The number of LED lights and their colours: LED lighting is one of the most important features for cake displays as it may affect sales figure of foods on display a lot. Usually, cake display fridges come with cool light. However, some brands such as Bromic offer optional warm light colour
Adjustable shelving: Every food service business has different sizes of foods for sale. With adjustable shelving, you can easily lift up or lower the height of each shelf according to your food sizes.
Heating element for glass: These days, most of commercial cake displays come with heating element for condensation on the glass.
Front glass shapes: There are 2 types of front glass shapes: curved or square. Most popular is the square design as it allows more storage in the case than the other.

What to consider before buying a refrigerated cake display?

Off the shelf cake display fridges available in the market are certain dimensions as standard. They are 600, 900, 1200, 1500, 1800, 2100, 2400mm wide. This means you need enough space to fit your ideal size in your premise. Measure it well including extra 1 – 2 cm gaps all around. And, most cake fridges are available with 2, 3, 4 shelves although 3 shelves are the most popular. Depending on your foods for sale, you can choose one that best fits your needs. Remember! More shelves mean higher display cabinet and more pricey. So, you need to check your budget and ideal display height.