Duffy's Sports Grill saves $123k a year with centralized HVAC and refrigeration visibility

Customer overview

Duffy's Sports Grill, a popular chain of sports-themed restaurants in Florida, needed a solution to manage energy consumption more effectively across their spread-out locations. Prior to partnering with GlacierGrid, the franchise relied on conventional thermostats, with no centralized system to monitor and control energy usage. This decentralized setup led to inefficiencies and rising costs, impacting their bottom line.

In a Florida climate where HVAC is running hard most of the year, the operating cost of getting setpoints wrong, or never knowing they are wrong, adds up quickly across a 33-unit footprint.

The challenge

Duffy's faced a classic multi-unit operations problem: every location managed its own thermostat settings, which meant the corporate team had no visibility into how energy was being used and no way to enforce consistent cost-saving practices across the portfolio. When something went wrong with HVAC or refrigeration, the team usually heard about it from the restaurant, after it had already become a problem.

Working with GlacierGrid

Duffy's deployed GlacierGrid's data-driven dashboard across all 33 locations, replacing manual thermostat management with centralized intelligent control. The platform delivered:

• Intelligent HVAC control for optimized energy use, with consistent setpoints applied across the portfolio instead of negotiated location by location.
• Temperature and humidity monitoring across locations, protecting food inventory and surfacing equipment issues before they escalate.
• Real-time insights that allow immediate adjustments rather than reactive responses to monthly utility bills.
• Centralized control replacing manual thermostat management, streamlining energy oversight from the corporate office.

"GlacierGrid gives us visibility into all of our HVAC and refrigeration units so we know when there are issues before it becomes a problem." Joe Sanchez, Director of Facilities

For a Director of Facilities running a multi-state portfolio, that shift from reactive to proactive is the difference between firefighting and operating a real program.

Results

Across all 33 Duffy's locations, the GlacierGrid deployment delivered:

• 8.4% energy savings versus baseline.
• $123k in annual savings to the operator's bottom line.

Ready to see what your sites would save?

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.

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