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COLD STORAGE FOR CONVENIENCE STORES

Beer caves, beverage walls, back-of-house walk-ins, and ice cream freezers — PanelTX is the single-source supplier for c-store cold storage across Texas. NSF-certified equipment, custom builds, and full-height LED glass doors that sell product around the clock.

— OUR SOLUTIONS

What We Install for C-Stores

WALK-IN COOLERS & FREEZERSNSF-certified, custom panels with anti-sweat door frames. Sized from single-door beverage coolers to full back-of-house cold rooms.

REACH-IN GLASS DOORSCrystal-clear insulated tempered glass, full-height LED lighting, heated frames. Turn your cooler wall into a 24/7 merchandising display.

BEER CAVES & BEVERAGE WALLSBeer cave and beverage wall builds with ENERGY STAR-rated doors. Customers see product, grab, and go — no fogging, no frost.

PLUG DOORS & REFRIGERATIONHeavy-duty G90 plug doors, condensing units, and compressor racks — the full refrigeration stack from one partner.

— WHAT DRIVES C-STORE COLD STORAGE

The Cooler Wall Is Your Highest-Margin Real Estate

In a convenience store, the cold vault is not back-of-house infrastructure. It is the most profitable square footage in the building, and it gets treated as such by the operators who do well.

Two things follow from that. The first is that door count and layout are merchandising decisions, not refrigeration ones. How many linear feet of glass you have, how the product is lit, and whether a customer can see what they want from the aisle all move sales more than the cooler's efficiency rating does. Even lighting down to the bottom shelf matters, because that is usually where the higher-margin single-serve product sits.

The second is that downtime is expensive in a way it is not elsewhere. A restaurant with a failed cooler loses inventory. A c-store with a dark beer cave on a Friday loses the weekend. That is why we stock doors and panels in Texas rather than ordering everything in, and why we handle refrigeration alongside the box.

Beer caves add their own wrinkle: a walk-in the public enters has to hold temperature while the door cycles constantly, needs floor and lighting a customer will walk into, and has to look finished rather than industrial. It is a different build from a stockroom cooler that happens to be the same size.

— COMMON QUESTIONS

Convenience Store Cold Storage Questions

How many doors should a beer cave have?It comes down to linear feet of product and traffic rather than room size. Send us the wall dimensions and what you plan to merchandise and we will lay out the door count and the walk-in footprint together.

Can you build while the store stays open?Yes, and most c-store work is done that way. We stage the build around your hours, and a refrigeration trailer on site can hold product through the changeover so you are not dumping inventory.

We are remodeling. Reuse the cooler or replace it?Depends on the envelope. If the panels are sound and it is the doors, gaskets, and refrigeration that have aged out, a refit is usually the better money. If the box is sweating or the floor has failed, replacement is cheaper over five years.

Do you handle multi-site rollouts?Yes. Repeatable builds across a chain are straightforward for us because the spec gets set once and the crews already know it. That consistency is most of the value on a rollout.

— RELATED

What Goes Into a C-Store Build

Reach-In Glass Doors

LED display doors for beer caves and beverage walls.

Reach-in glass doors →

Walk-In Coolers

The vault behind the glass, sized to your floor plan.

Walk-in coolers →

Plug Doors

Back-of-house doors built for constant traffic.

Plug doors →

Fort Worth

C-store work along I-35W and the Alliance corridor.

Fort Worth cold storage →