Bay Area Restaurant Management (BARM) is a successful McDonald's franchisee with 38 locations under management. Proudly serving the San Francisco Bay Area for over a decade, BARM has continuously innovated to maximize customer service and operational excellence. The team's involvement in California energy sustainability groups has helped BARM reduce energy usage, save money on rising energy costs, and establish more sustainable operations.
In one of the most expensive utility markets in the country, every percent of energy reduction is real money, and operators that get ahead of California's regulatory curve have a structural advantage.
BARM started its work with GlacierGrid years ago to monitor cooler and freezer temperatures across their 38 sites, with the goal of reducing food waste and cutting down on the labor cost of manual temperature checks. The deployment delivered on that, and as GlacierGrid expanded its platform into HVAC control, BARM had a natural next step: extend the same centralized oversight from refrigeration to the largest energy line item in the building.
As an early adopter of GlacierGrid's HVAC platform, BARM extended its existing refrigeration deployment to cover energy management across all 38 locations. The combined platform gave the BARM team a data-driven dashboard with:
For an operator already disciplined about sustainability, the platform meant the team could stop trading off visibility against operational simplicity.
Across all 38 BARM locations, the GlacierGrid deployment delivered:
The savings compound the broader sustainability program BARM has built across the Bay Area portfolio.
GlacierGrid offers a 90-day free pilot for multi-unit operators in QSR, c-store, retail, and gym verticals. Talk to our team about deploying intelligent HVAC control and refrigeration monitoring across your portfolio.