Canada’s Commercial Refrigeration Partner for Serious Business
Walk-In Coolers, Freezers, Glass-Door Systems, Beer Caves and Custom Cold Storage — Designed, Delivered and Installed Canada-Wide.
Greens Coolers builds premium commercial refrigeration systems for grocery, retail, restaurant, institutional, warehouse and food-service operators across Canada.
Commercial Refrigeration Built Around How Your Business Actually Runs
Most refrigeration suppliers sell you a box. Greens Coolers plans the whole system — the footprint, the door placement, the temperature split, the way your staff will physically move product through it — and then builds, delivers and installs it as one accountable project.
That matters when a walk-in is the difference between a normal Saturday and a store full of written-off inventory. Our work sits behind grocery aisles, beer walls, QSR lines, bakery prep rooms, campus food halls, production floors and distribution docks.
If you know your dimensions, we can quote. If you do not, send a photo or a rough sketch and we will tell you what actually fits — including the clearances most people only discover on installation day.
- Custom sized to your floor planStandard footprints when they genuinely fit, fully custom panels when they do not — irregular rooms, low ceilings, tight loading access.
- One team from design to handoverLayout, sizing, supply, delivery, installation and start-up testing handled by the same people, so nothing falls between trades.
- Specified for commercial duty cyclesChosen for real door-open frequency, product load and site ambient conditions — not residential-grade shortcuts.
- Planned around trading hoursPhased and after-hours installation so high-volume stores keep selling while the work happens.
Built for the Brands, Operators and Facilities That Cannot Afford Refrigeration Mistakes
A cooler failure in a single restaurant is a bad week. The same failure across a grocery estate or a campus food hall is a write-off measured in pallets. Greens Coolers specifies for the second case and builds every system to that standard.
Project experience includes major grocery, retail, restaurant, institutional and commercial operators across Canada — from independent single-site businesses through to multi-location estates and national franchise networks.
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Start With the System, Not the Sales Pitch
Five ways operators keep product cold. Pick the one closest to your situation and see what it takes to specify it properly — sizing, temperature band, the decisions that actually drive cost.
Walk-In Cooler
The workhorse. Built to your floor plan rather than a catalogue size, so you get usable shelf metres instead of wasted corners.
- Temperature band
- 1°C to 4°C
- Typical use
- Produce, dairy, prep stock
- Panel
- 100mm insulated
- Build
- Modular, site-assembled
- Sized from your actual floor plan and door swing
- Refrigeration load calculated against your product turnover
- Floor, ramp and threshold detailed before anything is ordered
Walk-In Freezer
Everything a cooler needs plus the things that go wrong when a freezer is built like one — floor insulation, defrost strategy, vapour sealing, door heaters.
- Temperature band
- −18°C to −23°C
- Typical use
- Frozen stock, bulk hold
- Panel
- 150mm insulated
- Floor
- Insulated, always
- Insulated floor specified as standard, not as an upsell
- Defrost cycle matched to how often the door actually opens
- Door heater and vapour seal detailing to stop frost build-up
Glass-Door Cooler
Refrigeration that has to sell as well as store. Door count, lighting and shelf pitch get decided against your planogram, not guessed.
- Temperature band
- 2°C to 5°C
- Typical use
- Grocery, convenience
- Doors
- 2 to 30+ configurations
- Lighting
- LED, per door
- Door count and shelf pitch set against your product mix
- Anti-condensate glazing so the product stays visible
- Front-of-house finish detailed to match the store build
Beer Cave
A walk-in cooler the public walks into. That changes the door hardware, the lighting, the floor finish and the load calculation — all of it.
- Temperature band
- 1°C to 4°C
- Typical use
- Beer, beverage retail
- Access
- Customer-facing
- Load
- High door-open rate
- Load calculated for constant customer door traffic
- Rear-load shelving so restocking never blocks the aisle
- Lighting and finish built for a sales floor, not a store room
Custom Cold Storage
Multi-room, multi-temperature, or simply bigger than anything off a shelf. Specified as a project with drawings, staging and a commissioning plan.
- Temperature band
- Multi-zone
- Typical use
- Distribution, production
- Scope
- Design to handover
- Documentation
- Drawings + commissioning
- Multiple temperature zones planned as one system
- Racking, traffic routes and door positions coordinated up front
- Commissioning documented so the handover is verifiable
Commercial Refrigeration Projects Across Canada
Greens Coolers is headquartered in North York, Ontario. Ontario and the GTA are the home market — that is where rooms are drawn, staged and dispatched from, and where turnaround is fastest.
Beyond Ontario the model is different and we are straightforward about it. Equipment is shipped, installation is scheduled as a planned project, and more is confirmed before anyone travels: access route, ceiling height, floor condition, drainage, power and the delivery window. One thorough survey instead of repeat visits.
For multi-site and national operators that is not a compromise — it is exactly how a rollout gets planned. One written specification, the same build in every province, and a schedule that fits a capital year.
- Ontario & the GTAHome market
- AlbertaScheduled routes
- British ColumbiaPlanned install
- ManitobaScheduled routes
- SaskatchewanScheduled routes
- QuebecPlanned install
- Atlantic CanadaPlanned install
- Canada-wideProject capability
The map shows project capability, not premises. Greens Coolers operates from one address — 59 Torbarrie Rd, North York, Ontario. There are no branch offices, regional depots or standing crews elsewhere, and we do not publish response times.
Refrigeration Specified for Your Kind of Operation
The same walk-in behaves very differently behind a grocery aisle, a QSR line and a distribution dock. Choose your sector to see how Greens Coolers specifies for it.
Grocery & Supermarket Refrigeration
Backroom capacity that carries delivery day, department zoning that matches how the floor is merchandised, and door placement set around the restocking route rather than the wall that happened to be free.
- Sized for delivery day, not the average dayPeak intake is the design case. A room sized on average inventory fails every Tuesday.
- Department-level temperature zoningProduce, meat, dairy, bakery and frozen have different duties. One room at one setpoint compromises all five.
- Receiving-to-floor flowDoors, thresholds and aisle widths set so loaded carts move once, not three times.
Restaurant & Quick-Service Refrigeration
Line-side holding and back-of-house walk-ins sized in hotel pans and speed racks, specified for a hot kitchen ambient and installed in the window between services.
- Sized in the units you actually handleHotel pans, sheet trays and speed racks — not cubic feet on a spec sheet.
- Built for kitchen ambientCondenser siting planned around heat and grease load, which is what shortens equipment life in practice.
- Installed around serviceOvernight and between-service windows so the line never stops earning.
Franchise & Multi-Site Operators
One written build standard, the same hardware in every location, and a phased rollout that fits a capital year — with a documented route for the sites that genuinely cannot take the standard build.
- One specification, every locationFormat-based room schedules and a fixed component list, so store 40 matches store 4.
- Spares and training carry overIdentical hardware means one parts kit and one set of staff instructions across the estate.
- Documented exceptionsOlder buildings and tight loading get a recorded variance instead of quietly breaking the standard.
Convenience Stores & Beer Retail
Cold frontage is the store. Glass-door banks and walk-in beer caves planned around planogram, customer door traffic and rear-loading depth behind the wall line.
- Depth behind the wall decides everythingIt is what gates rear-loading, and it has to be confirmed before door count is fixed.
- Customer-operated door dutySpecified for hundreds of openings a day, not a back-of-house duty cycle.
- Staged installs for 24-hour storesSections taken offline in sequence so the store never fully closes.
University & Institutional Refrigeration
Campus kitchens, residence dining and food halls sized for term-time peaks, installed in the windows the academic calendar actually allows.
- Sized for term, not for averageWeekday-peak service volume is the design case; summer is not.
- Installed to the academic calendarReading weeks, term breaks and summer shutdowns are the usable windows and they book out early.
- Procurement-ready documentationWritten scope and specification suited to institutional tendering and approval processes.
Warehouse & Distribution Cold Storage
Pallet-scale rooms planned from load height and racking outward, with dock-adjacent staging, forklift impact protection and freezer floor detailing.
- Planned from the pallet outFootprint, load height, racking, flue and sprinkler clearance, then the panel line — in that order.
- Built for forklift trafficImpact protection where it matters; a punctured panel is a moisture problem, not a cosmetic one.
- Freezer floor detailingUnder-floor heating and construction specified against frost heave from the outset.
From Empty Space to Fully Installed Cold Storage
Eight stages, one accountable team. No handing you between a supplier, an installer and a refrigeration contractor who each blame the other two.
- 01
Space review
We look at the room you actually have — access, ceiling height, drainage, power and where the doors need to swing.
- 02
Measurements
Site measured properly, on site. Panel sizes come off real dimensions, not a sketch emailed over.
- 03
Design and layout
Layout drawn against your workflow so the shelving, door position and traffic route make sense on day one.
- 04
Equipment selection
Refrigeration load calculated for your product, your turnover and your door-open rate — then equipment picked to match it.
- 05
Delivery
Panels and plant scheduled to land when your site is ready for them, not weeks early in the way of everyone.
- 06
Installation
Assembled, sealed and connected by the same team that specified it. One phone number the whole way through.
- 07
Testing
Pulled down to temperature and held there, with the defrost cycle and controls proven under real conditions.
- 08
Handover
Documentation, settings and a walkthrough with the people who will actually use it every day.
The Systems Greens Coolers Builds
Representative configurations across the Greens Coolers range. Filter by sector or system type.
Photography from completed Canadian installations replaces these representative visuals as client sign-off is received. No project shown here is presented as a specific named client engagement.
Built to a Standard You Can See Up Close
Refrigeration fails at the details — the seal, the defrost, the panel joint. These are the things worth asking any supplier about before you sign.
Free Commercial Refrigeration Site Assessment
Planning a walk-in cooler, freezer, glass-door system or beer cave? Send your project details and Greens will review the best fit, sizing direction and next steps.
You will get a straight read on what your space can take, what it will realistically cost to do properly, and what to watch out for — whether or not you end up building it with us.
- A sizing direction based on your floor plan, not a catalogue
- The decisions that actually drive the cost, named up front
- One team accountable from specification through to handover
Planning a Cooler, Freezer or Glass-Door System? Start With a Free Site Assessment.
No cost, no obligation, anywhere in Canada. Send the space and you get sizing guidance, a recommended configuration and a written quote.
Most refrigeration mistakes are made before anything is ordered — a box that will not fit through the loading door, a freezer sized for average load instead of peak, doors on the wrong wall for the restocking route, a condenser sited where it will cook itself every August.
A Greens Coolers site assessment removes that risk. In the GTA that means someone on site. Anywhere else in Canada it means a structured remote review from your dimensions, photos and floor plan — which, done properly, catches the same problems.
- Free project sizing recommendationThe footprint and capacity that actually suit your product volume and turnover.
- Free layout reviewWhere doors, shelving and clearances should sit for the way your team works.
- Fast quote reviewComparing quotes? Send them across and we will tell you plainly where the scopes differ.
- Canada-wide project consultationSingle site, multi-site estate or a national rollout across several provinces.
Greens Coolers Inc.Free Commercial Refrigeration Site Assessment
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Commercial Refrigeration Solutions for Businesses Across Canada
What Greens Coolers supplies
Greens Coolers Inc. is a commercial refrigeration supplier and installer based at 59 Torbarrie Rd in North York, Ontario, delivering projects across Canada. The range covers walk-in coolers, walk-in freezers, glass door coolers, glass door walk-in coolers, beer caves, beer walk-in coolers, commercial fridges, commercial freezers, custom cold storage and penthouse cooler and freezer systems.
Units are available two ways. Ready-made cooler units come in standard footprints and ship faster, which suits replacements and straightforward rooms. Custom-built cooler units are panelled to your dimensions, which is what most grocery backrooms, restaurant basements and irregular retail spaces actually need.
Getting the sizing and layout right
The most expensive refrigeration mistakes are sizing mistakes. A walk-in cooler that is too small forces staff to stack product against the evaporator and block airflow. One that is too large costs more to run and takes floor space the business needed for something else. Freezer capacity is even less forgiving, because pull-down from warm product is slower and door traffic hurts more.
Greens Coolers sizes from the real numbers: case counts, pallet or speed-rack dimensions, delivery frequency, how long product sits before it moves, and how many times a day the door opens. Door placement is planned around the receiving route so staff are not walking loaded carts across a sales floor. Where a store would benefit from merchandising as well as storage, a glass door walk-in cooler turns the same footprint into selling space.
Design, delivery and installation as one job
Greens Coolers handles design, delivery and installation together rather than dropping a box and leaving the rest to whoever is available. Access routes, ceiling heights, floor condition, drainage and electrical coordination are confirmed before anything ships, and the crew installing the system is the crew that planned it. Where a project needs licensed electrical work or permit coordination, that is arranged as part of the schedule with the authority having jurisdiction.
Replacement projects follow the same route with one addition: the old unit is decommissioned and removed, and the changeover is sequenced so the business keeps trading. That is the core of cooler replacement and upgrade work — the install is rarely the hard part, the timing is.
Where Greens Coolers works
The head office is in North York and Ontario is the home market, with the densest project history across Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Markham, Hamilton, Ottawa, London and Kitchener-Waterloo.
Beyond Ontario, Canada-wide project capability covers Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Quebec and Atlantic Canada. To be clear about what that means: there are no branch offices or regional depots. Equipment ships and installation is scheduled as a planned project, with more confirmed before travel.
Multi-site estates and national programmes
For operators running more than one location, the value is consistency. One written build standard means the room in store forty matches the room in store four: the same panel construction, the same door hardware, the same controller, the same spare parts kit, and one set of instructions your staff already know. Franchise and multi-site programmes are planned across a capital year, with a pilot site first and a documented exception route for the buildings that genuinely cannot take the standard build.
Choosing a commercial refrigeration supplier
Three questions separate suppliers worth quoting from suppliers worth skipping. First: will they size the system from your actual product load, or just sell you the box you asked for? Second: is delivery and installation included and coordinated, or subcontracted to whoever is free that week? Third: what happens on handover — is there pull-down testing and a controller walkthrough, or do you find out the setpoint is wrong when the product warms up?
Greens Coolers answers all three in writing before a project starts. If you are comparing quotes, send the others across and we will tell you plainly where the scopes differ — including where a competitor has quoted something we would not recommend.
Commercial Refrigeration Questions, Answered Straight
The questions Canadian operators ask us most often before a project starts.
Both, but they work differently and it is worth being clear. Ontario and the GTA are the home market: the North York facility is where rooms are drawn, staged and dispatched from, so turnaround is fastest and revisions are cheapest.
Outside Ontario, equipment is shipped and installation is scheduled as a planned project. There are no branch offices, regional depots or standing crews elsewhere, and we do not publish response times. For multi-site operators that planned model is usually an advantage — it is how a rollout gets scheduled properly in the first place.
Cost depends on footprint, temperature, cooler versus freezer, the refrigeration configuration, the site conditions and how far the equipment has to travel. A small ready-made cooler for a café sits at the bottom of the range; a large custom freezer for a grocery backroom with electrical coordination sits well above it.
Rather than quote a misleading number, Greens Coolers gives you a written quote against your actual space. Send dimensions or a floor plan and you will have a figure you can budget against.
A walk-in cooler holds above freezing — the range used for produce, dairy, beverages and prepared food. A walk-in freezer holds well below freezing for frozen product.
The practical differences are insulation thickness, floor construction, door hardware, defrost strategy and refrigeration capacity. A freezer is not a colder cooler; it is a different build. Compare them on the walk-in coolers and walk-in freezers pages.
Yes, and that is the work the business is structured for. A multi-province programme runs from one written build standard: format-based room schedules, a fixed component list, the building services each site must provide, and a defined commissioning check.
A pilot site is built first to prove the standard, then the remaining sites are phased across the capital year. Sites that genuinely cannot take the standard build get a documented exception rather than a quiet substitution. See franchise and multi-site programmes.
Greens Coolers handles design, supply, delivery and installation as one project. Access route, ceiling height, floor condition, drainage and power are confirmed before delivery, and installation is scheduled around your trading hours where required.
Licensed electrical work and permit coordination are arranged as part of the project, with the authority having jurisdiction, where the work calls for it.
In most cases, yes. Installations are regularly phased or scheduled after hours and overnight for grocery, convenience and retail clients who cannot stop trading.
For replacement projects the changeover is sequenced so product can be moved and the old unit removed without leaving inventory unrefrigerated. That sequencing is agreed before the project is booked, not improvised on the day.
A straightforward ready-made cooler in an accessible space is typically installed in a day. Larger custom rooms, freezer builds and projects requiring electrical coordination run longer and are scheduled in stages.
Lead time before installation depends on whether the unit is a standard size or built to a custom footprint, and on how far it has to travel. Both are confirmed in writing with your quote.
At minimum: your business type, the city and province, roughly what has to be stored, and either the dimensions of the space or a photograph of it. That is enough for a specialist to come back with a recommended configuration.
A floor plan, ceiling height and details of the access route make the quote more precise — and for sites outside Ontario they matter more, because they replace a second visit. Upload them with the quote request form and nothing has to be re-measured later.
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