A fast-food chain is hundreds of kitchens spiking at lunch, and one outage empties every freezer.
Quick-service restaurants run grills, fryers and chillers that spike at meal times across hundreds of sites, while a power cut spoils stock and shuts a store that trades on speed.
Small sites, sharp peaks, no backup
A quick-service restaurant looks small, but its kitchen is dense with high-draw equipment: grills, fryers, ovens, ventilation and refrigeration, plus a drive-through and increasingly EV chargers in the car park. Loads spike hard at lunch and dinner, and across a chain of hundreds of sites those peaks add up to a serious capacity bill.
Each site also runs a fridge and freezer full of perishable stock with no protection, so a local outage means discarded food, a closed store and a hit to a brand built on always being open.
One small store per site, many problems solved
A compact on-site store shaves the mealtime peak to cut the demand charge, holds refrigeration through a short outage to save the stock, and buffers EV or kitchen loads where the connection is tight. Rolled across an estate, the same standard unit turns an unmanaged energy cost into a predictable, lower one.
Why 247 Energy
247 Energy supercapacitor systems install indoors or back-of-house without changes to fire suppression, which matters in a building full of staff, customers and open flame. They scale from 15 kWh upward, so a single standard configuration suits a typical outlet and rolls out across an estate. Retail operators including Jumbo already run 247 storage across their sites.