A national fast casual pizza restaurant brand struggled with runaway energy costs, poor HVAC asset performance, and a lack of visibility into energy usage trends across their portfolio of locations. The brand turned to GridPoint to develop a solution that would:
Remote visibility, monitoring, and control: GridPoint’s technology platform provides full-scale remote visibility and control over the fast casual brand’s energy-consuming assets. This includes HVAC unit setpoints and schedules, lighting loads, refrigeration loads, pizza oven loads, and various other kitchen equipment specific to their operation—without having to be onsite for any of it.
Outlier energy use identification and management: Using data gathered from GridPoint’s technology platform, the brand’s facilities team was able to identify sources of outlier energy consumption not previously visible to the organization. The brand uncovered specific examples of notable energy waste and demand peaks at a number of their locations, especially with HVAC units and pizza ovens. Their facilities team discovered that ovens were being turned on too early in the day, and at temperatures that were too high. Insights from GridPoint’s platform enabled the remote creation of new setpoint policies, as well as new guidelines for managing oven temperatures and schedules to save on energy costs.
Improvements to restaurant brand experience: GridPoint’s technology solution helped the fast casual pizza brand identify location outliers for important metrics, like average store temperature, peak store temperature, peak demand, and more. Using these data sets along with other data captured, such as HVAC asset performance and location foot traffic, GridPoint’s analysis provided targeted, actionable insights and recommendations that improve asset performance and lifecycles, store conditions, and overall customer experience.
GridPoint’s technology platform and tailored energy management strategies helped this fast casual pizza brand save 15% of its annual energy spend.