Bottle coolers are an essential item for every bar, but the trick is to match the right application with the right aesthetics. Optimising the space that you have available is also key, so you need to look for one that is just the right size, and in many cases that may only be a single door bottle cooler, rather than a double door or triple door.
Another consideration is whether to have hinged doors or sliding doors. If you don't have much space in the backbar, hinged doors can get in the way of other staff passing up and down the bar during busy periods, so sliding doors are easier. You also need to consider how many times the doors are opened during a shift, because in a busy venue they can be opened hundreds of times in a shift, and sliding doors have much greater endurance than hinged doors. Sliding doors also don't let the cold air out every time they are opened and a bottle is taken out.
Nice LED lighting will display the product at the backbar, which is necessary to make the bottles look attractive to the customer. It is also cooler which is ideal in a bottle cooler as it helps to save energy and keep electricity bills down.
Another consideration is the life of the doors. If you are buying a single door bottle cooler, or even a larger one, you want welded construction rather than extruded doors. If you look at bar staff opening a hinged door, where does most of their weight go? On the door! So it's important that the door can take the weight. Even so, sliding doors will outlast hinged doors every time, although you can't have a sliding door on a single door bottle cooler.
You also need to look at the condenser. Wire-on-tube condensers are virtually maintenance free since it's harder for them to become blocked by dust like conventional condensers, which is important because most bottle coolers are built in, so it can be difficult to gain access to clean them.
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