Introduction To The Advisor Newsletter For Consultants

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The Walk-in Advisor
A Quarterly Newsletter on Walk-in Coolers & Freezers, By Imperial Manufacturing for Food Service Consultants

Welcome to the first consultant newsletter on walk-in coolers & freezers by Imperial Manufacturing, an employee-owned company headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Imperial Manufacturing has been in the business of walk-ins for just over 40 years and in that time has come to understand the unique position of walk-ins within the food service industry. This newsletter is about these issues & how they relate to the work you do as Food Service Consultants. 

The information that will be included in the newsletter is focused on technical issues.  It’s purpose is to provide information on the key features, differences in the manufacturing processes, and pieces of legislation that affect walk-in coolers and freezers.

Before I go further, let me introduce myself to you: My name is Rick Jones and I am the Technical Services Manager for Imperial Manufacturing. I often get asked, what does that mean and to answer that I’m going to tell you about a friend of mine. My friend’s name is Mike and he works in the IT department for a major hospital chain. Mike has a business background and certainly over the years has learned a lot about IT issues but he didn’t go to school for computer science. He’s a bright guy and one night he explained his role to me as that of being the translator between the IT techies and hospital management. You see, the hospital management doesn’t really want to know the ins and outs about the IT world. The hospital management wants products and services that work to help them run the hospital efficiently. 

Mike is “bilingual” in his chosen field and translates technical jargon to his management and conversely, his management’s needs to the techs. Although we are in different professions, in a many ways we have similar roles. It is my job to communicate my knowledge and expertise in walk-in coolers and freezers, refrigeration, and energy savings in an easily understandable manner. Like my friend Mike, I’m “bilingual”.

Imperial Manufacturing believes that this newsletter will be of help in your understanding of the walk-in industry and realizes that time is our biggest asset. Thus, if you wish to opt out of this newsletter, please feel free to click on the unsubscribe link at the end of the newsletter and we will promptly remove you from the mailing list. If you wish to continue to receive this newsletter, I can promise you that the information presented will be informative and timely. 

Before we begin that discussion you should know that future issues will discuss:
a. walk-in floor design
b. the differences between panel construction techniques
c. door design
d. types of metal that are typically used for the skins of walk-ins
e. designing walk-ins to maximize energy efficiency
f. refrigeration basics & advanced topics
g. structural design considerations and many more

With that, the topic of this newsletter edition focuses on R-Values and how they relate to walk-ins.  OK, let’s get started!

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