Harp + Bard

While we love to hear stories from our customers about how our solution helps them save money on their electric bills, our favorite stories are often about how someone’s life was made easier by having our controls and measures installed.

Harp + Bard, a highly rated sports bar and grill in Dorchester, MA, is one such business whose kitchen staff have incorporated the solution into their daily routines.

For starters, checking the operating temperatures of both their walk-in cooler and walk-in freezer no longer requires a person to do it during, say, the middle of the dinner rush. In the busy world of food service, a hundred other pressing matters take precedent. With CoolTrol®, the award-winning smart controller that serves as the basis for each solution, temperatures are tracked and logged by-the-second and stored for food safety and verification purposes.

And if CoolTrol® detects a problem with the temperatures compared to your business’ customized settings, it will alert you immediately, so you can look further into the issue.

There’s also the unique “big red button” that safely turns the evaporator fans off for 20 minutes while employees or delivery drivers work in the walk-in. This helps minimize the chance that someone turns the fans off by cutting to power them via the breaker or power supply, or the leave the door propped open to let some of the cold air blowing on them out while they work.

Of course, the energy savings that the solution provides, and are achieved in conjunction with their utility provider’s energy efficiency program, are helpful in an industry with typically thin margins.

In the 12 months that they’ve had the optimizations, they’ve recouped close to $1,000 from their electric bill, which is over 5,000 kWh slashed from their energy consumption.