Abstract: A refrigerated food preparation apparatus is made up of a cabinet having storage compartments therein and an upper sloped food handling table with a recessed portion for food container inserts having upwardly open ends to facilitate convenient access to food placed in the inserts, a supply air duct and return air duct extending along opposite sides of the food container inserts, and a refrigeration system for directing air from an evaporator section for discharge simultaneously and in separate layers across the food container inserts.

Abstract: The cooling efficiency of a refrigerating chamber and a storage chamber is improved, and the cooling capability is prevented from degrading. A horizontal refrigerator 10 is comprised of an underlying refrigerator body 11 and an overlying show-case 12. The show-case 12 disposed on the top surface of a thermally insulated box 16 of the refrigerator body 11 is comprised of an outer box 37, an inner box 38 disposed within the outer box 37 spaced by a necessary space therefrom, and a heat insulating material 39 filled between both boxes 37, 38, and an opening 12a is formed only in a top portion. The opening 12a is opened and closed by a plurality of slidable doors 45. A cooling pipe 47 connected to a refrigerating mechanism is disposed in a meander form in contact with the outer surface on the insulating material side in the bottom and rear portions of the inner box 38, such that the entire inner box 38 is cooled by circulation of a coolant supplied from the refrigerating mechanism.

Abstract: An apparatus for cold-holding food product. The apparatus comprises a cabinet carrying a refrigeration unit including a plurality of refrigerated shelves. The plurality of refrigerated shelves are adapted to frost on both sides under the control of the refrigeration unit to thereby maintain the quality of food product held on the shelves. To allow for the drainage of any melting frost, the plurality of shelves may be angled and a drain pan system included to direct the water away from the shelves to a drain or condensate evaporator during defrost periods. To prevent the removal of frost with the unloading of food products from the shelves, wire racks or trivets may be used to elevate the food product on baking pans above the frosted shelve surfaces.

Abstract: A collar assembly including cooling coils is provided to increase the top surface cooling of food being served from food pans which are mounted to extend down into a food service cabinet or counter. The collar is preferably lower in the front toward the server or may be omitted for easy access, and is preferably higher at the back away from the server and on the sides for increased cooling. A principal cooling unit may be mounted in the cabinet to direct cold air onto the food pans; and the collar cooling coils and the principal cooling unit may be coupled to a single compressor and heat exchanger.

Abstract: A refrigerator system includes one or more insulated cabinets structured and disposed for mounting to a wall, soffit, or ceiling in suspended relation above a countertop so that the insulated cabinets are positioned at a height which enables easy viewing and access to items stored within the cabinets' interior compartments, while also providing an open and unobstructed area between the underside of the cabinets and the countertop. In a preferred embodiment, at least two insulated cabinets are used, including one insulated cabinet providing a refrigerator compartment and a second insulated cabinet providing a freezer compartment. A stand-alone refrigeration and freezing unit for controlling and maintaining the temperature in the refrigerator compartment and the freezer compartment is separated from the insulated cabinets and, in the preferred embodiments, is mounted in a soffit or ceiling structure above the insulated cabinets.

Abstract: A collar assembly including cooling coils is provided to increase the top surface cooling of food being served from food pans which are mounted to extend down into a food service cabinet or counter. The collar is preferably lower in the front toward the server for easy access and higher at the back away from the server and on the sides for increased cooling. A principal cooling unit may be mounted in the cabinet to direct cold air onto the food pans; and the collar cooling coils and the principal cooling unit may be coupled to a single compressor and heat exchanger.

Abstract: This invention relates to a refrigerator with a foldable table, wherein the table can be unfolded when it is needed and can be folded when it is not needed. So the product of the present invention has the functions of both a refrigerator and a table, and also can save some room space providing a more reasonable room layout.

Abstract: This invention relates to a refrigerator with a foldable table, wherein the table can be unfolded when it is needed and can be folded when it is not needed. So the product of the present invention has the functions of both a refrigerator and a table, and also can save some room space providing a more reasonable room layout.

Abstract: A temperature controlled drawer assembly incorporates a thermoelectric device and a control system to selectively heat or cool the contents of a drawer which is selectively movable into and out of a cabinet designed to be part of an end table, such as a nightstand, or other cabinet remote from a household kitchen. In a cooling mode of operation, a fan, disposed in the cabinet, draws air from inside the drawer and blows the air over a cold side of a heat sink to cool the air. The treated air is blown through plenums, back into the drawer. At the same time, heat is drawn away from the cold side and directed out of the cabinet. The current through the heat sink may be reversed to flip the cold and hot sides of the heat sink to enable the contents of the drawer to be heated.

Abstract: A refrigeration system for maintaining edible substances at a low temperature of the present invention includes a serving pan, an element for retaining or holding the serving pan, and a refrigeration tube and a glycol medium surrounding the pan is disclosed. The refrigeration tube and glycol medium act together in order to maintain the pan at a low temperature for a prolonged period of time and to provide an even cooling of the pan. In a second embodiment, the refrigeration tube may be surrounded by the glycol medium. In a further embodiment, the system may be used to heat food rather than to cool food by using a heat pump alone or in combination with electric heating elements. In yet another embodiment, the glycol medium may surround only the sides or only the bottom of the pan.

Abstract: The cooling efficiency of a refrigerating chamber and a storage chamber is improved, and the cooling capability is prevented from degrading.

Abstract: A food preparation table for preparing food and refrigerating foodstuffs includes at least one open top food container for holding foodstuffs, a cooling device for absorbing heat from air, an accelerating device for forcing the air to flow and an air supplying device for making a first portion of the air flow around said at least one open top food container and a second portion of the air stacked above the foodstuffs contained in said at least one said at least one open top food container.

Abstract: Cabinet permits self-service by persons who are going to eat and has a counter or top (2) on which the foodstuffs are situated, having optionally means for conserving the foodstuffs in a hot and/or cold state. Its fundamental innovation lies in that it has means (3, 4 and 5) for applying a continuous air curtain (6) over said foodstuffs without impeding access to the same and for the purpose of preventing the presence of insects on the foodstuffs mentioned.

Abstract: The invention disclosed and claimed in this patent is an improved refrigerated speed rail apparatus. The speed rail permits organized storage of beverage containers and provides easy and rapid access to those containers. The included refrigeration system chills beverages stored in the speed rail apparatus thereby enhancing the flavor of those beverages.

Abstract: An under the counter refrigeration unit (20), having a support frame (24), refrigerator cabinet (26), automatically opening lid (28), slide mechanism (32), and anti-racking assembly (86), is utilized to provide controlled temperature storage without occupying previously unused floor space or counter top (34) work area. The refrigerator cabinet (26) has an open top (60), and the slide mechanism (32) utilizes four drawer slides interposed between the support frame (24) and the refrigerator cabinet (26). The automatic lid opening mechanism (118) utilizes pins (132, 134) attached to opposite sides of the lid (28) and extending outwardly into inclined slots (122, 126). As the pins (132, 134) move to upper ends (128) of the slots (122, 126) the lid (28) is automatically lifted off the top (60) of the refrigerator cabinet (26).

Abstract: A refrigeration system for maintaining edible substances at a low temperature of the present invention includes a serving pan, an element for retaining or holding the serving pan, and a refrigeration tube and a glycol medium surrounding the pan is disclosed. The refrigeration tube and glycol medium act together in order to maintain the pan at a low temperature for a prolonged period of time and to provide an even cooling of the pan. In a second embodiment, the refrigeration tube may be surrounded by the glycol medium. In a further embodiment, the system may be used to heat food rather than to cool food by using a heat pump alone or in combination with electric heating elements. In yet another embodiment, the glycol medium may surround only the sides or only the bottom of the pan.

Abstract: A refrigerated food pan assembly is disclosed which includes food pans which rest within an inner channel through a mounting lip. The assembly includes an outer channel separated from the inner channel by insulation. Refrigeration coils are in thermal conduction with the inner channel to cool food kept within the food pans. A cold air plenum with outlet vents extends along the inner channel to blow cold air toward and between the food pans. Fan arrangements draw cold air through louvers from within the inner channel and direct the cold air into the plenum. An upper refrigeration coil provides additional cooling to the top surface of food in the food pans, and a warming coil may also be provided to prevent the rim or lip of the outer channel from accumulating frost.

Abstract: A device for maintaining a layer of cooled air over a work area, comprising a zone for processing, presentation or laying out food, said zone having an upper surface, a lower surface, a front edge where a user is optionally positioned, and lateral edges, said zone being upwardly open and in contact on its upper and lower surfaces with a layer of cooled air, a means for generating a flow of cooled air to create a layer of cooled air, an air flow channeling circuit comprising a flow delivery opening above the zone, a recovery opening to capture the air flow passing over the zone, and a flow circulation conduit connecting the delivery and recovery openings, the flow circulation conduit passing below the lower surface of the zone, wherein the air flow delivery and recovery openings are disposed laterally so that the air flow circulates between the openings, and wherein the air flow circulation conduit has a substantially horizontal section delimited on its upper part by the lower surface of the zone and is attach

Abstract: The invention provides a food preparation table which has improved cooling characteristics over prior art preparation tables, is efficient, and can be used with existing food storage pans. More particularly, the invention provides a food preparation table for holding ingredient/condiment storage pans that are open to access by food preparation personnel and which has cooling vents that are precisely positioned and shaped so that the condiments/ingredients in the pans are kept at a desired temperature, especially near the tops of the pans, and which does not prematurely dry the ingredients.

Abstract: A refrigeration system for maintaining edible substances at a low temperature of the present invention includes a serving pan, an element for retaining or holding the serving pan, and a refrigeration tube and a glycol medium surrounding the pan is disclosed. The refrigeration tube and glycol medium act together in order to maintain the pan at a low temperature for a prolonged period of time and to provide an even cooling of the pan. In a second embodiment, the refrigeration tube may be surrounded by the glycol medium. In a further embodiment, the system may be used to heat food rather than to cool food by using a heat pump alone or in combination with electric heating elements.

Abstract: A food preparation table comprises a storage compartment; a food preparation surface above the storage compartment; a cold wall tank adjacent the food preparation surface and above the storage compartment, the tank having a liner forming the inside walls and floor of the tank, refrigerant cooling passageways in heat transfer relationship on the outside of the liner; and support rails; a plurality of food storage pans each having flanges for supporting the pans on the support rails and side and bottom walls forming the food storage portion of the pan and extending from the flanges downwardly into the tank; a refrigeration system comprising a source of compressed refrigerant, an evaporator and interconnecting refrigerant lines that supply refrigerant to the evaporator and the tank refrigerant cooling passageways; and an air distribution system which circulates air past the evaporator to cool the storage compartment and inside the tank where it impinges on the inside walls of the liner and from there onto the wa

Abstract: A window-type air conditioner housing includes a backboard and two parietal sideboards of polystyrene. Each sideboard has a steel plate implant and a coaxial bracing hole for supporting a motor and an associated air conditioner fan bearing components, respectively, to thereby maintain vibration and noise at reduced levels. Preferably each steel plate implant is dimpled in the area surrounding each coaxial bracing hole to strengthen and stiffen the sideboard in that area for supporting the motor and fan assembly.

Abstract: A refrigerated food preparation table having a food preparation surface, a refrigerated food storage chamber, and a food plenum chamber adjacent to the food preparation surface. An air baffle assembly including a venturi restriction creates a resilient and uniform cool air curtain distributed across the top of food bins disposed within the food plenum chamber. One portion of the returning airflow, which is relatively warmer, having been exposed to higher ambient temperatures, circulates around the food bins and another portion of the returning airflow cools the refrigerated food storage chamber before entering a refrigeration coil/blower chamber to begin the cycle anew. The configuration maintains foodstuffs within the unit between 32.degree. and 40.degree. F.

Abstract: The refrigeration system for maintaining edible substances at a low temperature of the present invention includes a serving pan, an element for retaining or holding the serving pan, and a refrigeration tube and a glycol medium surrounding the pan. The refrigeration tube and glycol medium act together in order to maintain the pan at a low temperature for a prolonged period of time and to provide an even cooling of the pan.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes a support panel extending sideways from a bottom of a storage heat insulating box at one side of the box. An evaporator heat insulating box is provided for accommodating an evaporator and is formed at the one side of the storage heat insulating box with an equipment accommodating space being formed between itself and the base panel. A back panel extends from the rear wall of the storage heat insulating box so as to form rear walls of the evaporator heat insulating box and the equipment accommodating space, respectively. A side panel is continuous to the back panel so as to define an air circulation space together with a side of the evaporator heat insulating box. A front panel is continuous to the side panel so as to provide a front of the evaporator heat insulating box and the equipment accommodating space.

Abstract: A temperature-controlled appliance is provided with mutually-independent temperature-controlled compartments arranged close to each other. Each of the compartments comprises a casing formed of a heat-insulating layer, a thermal conductor arranged in the casing and provided with a heat-conducting surface located opposite a storage space in the casing, a Peltier device thermally connected with the thermal conductor, a power supply for feeding electric power to the Peltier device, and a controller for controlling electric power to be fed to the Peltier device so that a temperature in the casing is controlled.

Abstract: A refrigerated food pan assembly is disclosed which includes food pans which rest within an inner channel through a mounting lip. The assembly includes an outer channel separated from the inner channel by insulation. Refrigeration coils are in thermal conduction with the inner channel to cool food kept within the food pans. A cold air plenum with outlet vents extends along the inner channel to blow cold air between the food pans. Fan arrangements draw cold air through louvers from within the inner channel and direct the cold air into the plenum. An upper refrigeration coil provides additional cooling to the top surface of food in the food pans, and a warming coil prevents the rim or lip of the outer channel from accumulating frost.

Abstract: This patent discloses a modular environmental control system for small cleanroom enclosures ("mini-enclosures"). Small environmental control units ("ECUs") are mounted on top of individual mini-enclosures, as near as possible to the process tool within the enclosure. Each ECU has the capability of controlling temperature, humidity, and airflow rate delivered into the enclosure. Temperature is adjusted by first cooling the air inside the ECU followed by reheating it to a selected temperature. The cooling capability is not generated by individual ECUs. Instead, a remote fluid cooling unit supplies chilled fluid to each ECU, which is circulated internally to cool the air. The same remote unit services different ECUs at the same time.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are directed to positioning proximate cooling units in novel ways in refrigerated food service and display units. Preferred embodiments include one or more of the following: (1) positioning the top of a side-pan cooling element above the top of an adjacent food pan; (2) positioning at least a portion of a side-pan cooling element above a portion of the opening of a food pan; (3) positioning multiple side-pan cooling elements between adjacent food pans; (4) movably positioning a side-pan cooling element relative to an adjacent food pan; (5) positioning a plate type side-pan cooling element as a non-linear divider among adjacent food pans, and (6) providing a pan cooler with a low capacity fan which allows cooled air to be recirculated about the food pans substantially independently of air circulation within any storage area of the refrigeration unit. In most preferred embodiments, the pan cooler has a finless sub-pan cooling element.

Abstract: A modular refrigerated food container system for use in buffet bars in restaurants and the like includes a plurality of food storage receptacles for receiving food and a plurality of receptacle temperature maintaining modules where each temperature maintaining module is configured to receive the food storage receptacle and is configured to thermally communicate with the food storage receptacle to maintain a predetermined temperature of the food storage receptacle. Each temperature maintaining module is fluidly connected to adjacent temperature maintaining modules and a refrigeration device operatively coupled to the plurality of temperature maintaining modules provides thermal exchange fluid to each temperature maintaining module. Each temperature maintaining module further includes a thermally conducting inside wall, a substantially insulating outside wall, and a heat exchange device disposed therebetween.

Abstract: Meals are placed on individual trays in an institutional kitchen. The individual trays have a first part carrying the meal portion intended to be eaten hot and covered with a thermally insulative cloche and a second part carrying the meal portion intended to be eaten cold. The individual trays are transported in a thermally insulated enclosure to the places where the meals are to be eaten, where they are distributed into local individual units having a thermally insulated enclosure. Each individual unit includes retractable contact terminals operated by an electromagnet and contacting external terminals on the cloche which are in turn electrically connected to an electrical heating element of the cloche. Accordingly, by supplying power to the contact terminals, the meal portions intended to be eaten hot and placed under the cloches are selectively heated. The device is relatively inexpensive and facilitates meal handlings in compliance with hygiene conditions.

Abstract: A container useful for keeping food or beverages warm or cold includes a combination lid and tray door assembly. The lid and tray are both coupled to the container and to each other. The tray may be pivoted independently of the lid into a table top position and it may be separated from the container and used as a separate tray. The tray and lid are also pivotable together as an integral door assembly, and the lid is pivotable independently of the tray when the tray is removed or deployed as a table top. The overall height of the container is less than the overall length and the overall width so that the container has a low, stable center of gravity which permits it to be used on an unstable surface, such as an automobile seat, and so that the container does not obstruct movement or view of occupants of an automobile when it is used in an automobile.

Abstract: A system for commercially making and dispensing individual portions of freshly perpared frozen yogurt or ice cream comprising providing a battery of miniature batch type ice cream making machines having containers with capacities of up to 800 ml., refrigeration means for cooling the containers to desired temperatures for making frozen yogurt or ice cream, yogurt or ice cream mix, and flavor concentrates, whereby separate individual portions of freshly prepared frozen yogurt or ice cream can be prepared simultaneously for serving to a number of customers by introducing separate individual portions of frozen yogurt or ice cream mix and flavor concentrates into the containers, activating the ice cream making machines for the required time and scooping up the individual portions of frozen yogurt or ice cream for serving to customers.

Abstract: A ceramic composite is provided comprising ceramic fibers and microparticles bound together as a porous matrix with a ceramic binder. The ceramic composite is particularly useful for transporting cryogenic fluids.

Abstract: A salad bar unit with an overhead refrigerated storage cabinet wherein the salad bar at waist height contains a variety of containers, some of which are cooled and some of which are hot, and which are used to hold various food items to be selected by consumers. The unit is provided with an overhead cabinet that is divided into a plurality of independent refrigerated stalls open at one end, with transparent dividers, and having interior racks carrying containers of soda, milk, fruit juice and other items to which access is available through transparent doors that close off the open ends of the stalls.

Abstract: A food display and preservation case comprising at least one support member provided with wheels and brakes. The support member houses heating and refrigeration equipment and control elements. The support member supports a center body or table which includes compartments which may be heated or cooled, as well as a slab which may be cooled and a plate which may be heated. At least one column is disposed on the center body or table and supports a shield screen and light. The case may be used for self-service or buffet-style presentation.

Abstract: An apparatus to provide a laminar curtain of dry gas over a cryogenic working surface includes a housing duct extending longitudinally from the working surface. A honeycomb member fills a section of the duct adjacent to the working surface, each honeycomb cell having a through channel in the longitudinal direction. A porous foam with through porosity fills a section of the duct adjacent to the honeycomb member oppositely from the working surface. A plenum is adjacent to the porous member oppositely from the honeycomb. Dry gas is supplied to the plenum to flow through the foam and honeycomb to effect the laminar curtain.

Abstract: A refrigerator system having a refrigerating mechanism packaged in a separate case from the refrigerated cabinet and adapted to be attached to either side of the refrigerated cabinet. The refrigerated cabinet has discharge and return openings on each of opposite sides. The refrigerating mechanism has matching discharge and return openings on each of opposite sides. The discharge and return openings on the unattached side of the refrigerating mechanism and refrigerated cabinet are covered. The refrigerating mechanism has an evaporator blower which draws warm air through the return opening in the attached refrigerated cabinet, then through a cooling evaporator coil to propel the cooled air into a blower plenum, and then out a discharge outlet of the blower plenum directly into the matching discharge opening in the adjacent refrigerated cabinet.

Abstract: A refrigerated cabinet for preserving and displaying foodstuffs, the cabinet supporting rows of trays which carry the foodstuffs an providing a cool air flow both over the trays and under the trays to cool the foodstuffs from above and directly cool the trays. The cabinet may also include an overhead duct through which cool air flows to create an air curtain over the trays.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a table having an attached refrigerator, and more particularly to a table having an attached refrigerator which is made such that a cavity is defined beneath the table and a refrigerating chamber is made. A moving table housed in the cavity is provided to be lifted up and dropped down within the cavity, and door plates are provided at the top surface of the cavity, so that a utilizing and storing of side dishes is made to be convenient on a table.

Abstract: A cooler container having a rectangular configuration, each lower corner of the container having a recess. Also provided is a lid with a hinge. A latch is secured to the lid and side wall opposite from the hinge.

Abstract: A refrigerated compartment is disclosed for food preparation tables. The compartment is generally rectangular and extends laterally across the table and has an access opening at the top allowing exposure to ambient room air. A lower section of the compartment comprises a cold wall pan with air circulation and defines a lower cooling zone. An upper section of the compartment comprises a pair of oppositely disposed heat sink walls defining an upper cooling zone open to the room air. Plural open-top food pans are removably supported side-by-side in the compartment with the pans extending into the lower cooling zone and tops of the pans being disposed adjacent the bottom of the upper cooling zone.

Abstract: Disclosed is a pan cooler for a refrigeration unit which has a plurality of pans 22 which hold food removably mounted in the refrigeration unit. There is an opening 20 in the top wall 18 of the unit's cabinet 12 designed to enable the pans to be seated in the opening. Location means seat an individual pan 22 in one of a plurality of predetermined pan positions in the opening, and an individual pan, when in a predetermined pan position, is seated in the opening 20 so that substantially the entire lower body of the pan is disposed within the cooling chamber 16 of cabinet 12. The location means allows an individual pan 22 to be removed from the opening 20 and then reseated in the opening. A plurality of cooling elements 54 are disposed at the opening 20 in close proximity to the pan positions and mounted so that substantially the entire cooling element is disposed within the cooling chamber 16.

Abstract: A food service counter of the ice storage type which includes an ice storage tank 20 arranged to store an amount of ice and having a discharge hole 24 at a bottom, an ice supply device 30 for automatically producing chips of ice and supplying the same into the ice tank 20, and an agitating device 40 arranged within the ice tank 20 for agitating and leveling the chips of ice stored in the ice tank 20.

Abstract: A two-piece mobile bar which may house a beverage cooling and dispensing system for dispensing cold beverages through a multi-valved gun operated by a bartender stationed behind the bar. The first piece is a base unit defined by vertical end walls bridged by upper and lower sections, the upper section being joined to the end walls at corresponding positions below the upper edges of the end walls. The space between the upper and lower sections is divided into open cells which receive beverage and other containers. The upper section is provided with a sink in which a cold plate is seated, the cold plate having coils embedded therein in heat exchange relationship with ice covering the plate. The coil inputs are coupled to the containers and the outputs to the gun, whereby beverages passing through the coils are cooled before being dispensed. Coupling is effected by a network of hoses which extend through a shallow region contiguous with the front side of the unit.

Abstract: A refrigerator for food service. The refrigerator has a housing with two openings for one insert each, preferably a basket for holding several flats of eggs in one and a well for holding batter in the other. The opening for the basket is preferably oriented at an angle for easier access to its interior. The housing has an air conditioning unit located below it or located remotely but in fluid communication with the interior of the housing. A fan on the interior circulates the chilled air throughout the housing. The lid for the egg basket has one closed position and two opened positions. To open the basket lid, it can be either rotated on two pins up and back or raised to the horizontal and pushed back into a hollow area at the top of the housing, its two pins sliding in channels formed in the housing.

Abstract: An ice storage type food service counter composed of an ice storage tank 20 arranged to store an amount of ice and having a drain hole 24 at a bottom, an ice supply device 30 for automatically producing chips of ice and supplying them into the tank, an agitating device 40 arranged within the tank for agitating and leveling the chips of ice stored in the tank, a container assembly B detachably mounted on the agitating device 40 and placed on the stored chips of ice to contain drink and food therein, and a transparent cover plate 18 coupled over the ice storage tank 20, the cover plate having an opening through which the container assembly can be placed on the stored chips of ice.

Abstract: An ice storage type food service counter includes an ice storage tank (20) arranged to store an amount of ice and having a drain hole (24) at a bottom, an ice supply device (30) for automatically producing chips of ice and supplying the same into the ice storage tank (20), an agitating device (40) arranged within the ice storage tank for agitating and leveling the chips of ice stored in the ice storage tank, a container (B) formed to contain food and drink therein and mounted on the agitating device (40) to be displayed on the stored chips of ice, a water supply tank (50) arranged to store an amount of ice making water for use in the ice supply device (30), and a discharge tank (60) arranged below the ice storage tank (20) to store the water of melted ice discharged from the ice storage tank through a drain pipe (61) in connection to the drain hole.

Abstract: A commercial food preparation refrigerator unit, comprising a food storage chamber disposed under a food preparation table and in which a unique baffle controls circulation of refrigerated air whereby to maintain condiments and/or ingredients in the chamber and foodstuffs in separate trays extending from the table into the chamber, at a uniform refrigerated temperature.

Abstract: This refrigerator unit (10) for storing and serving salads and sandwiches includes an insulated cabinet (12) having a top wall (26) with a front portion (28) providing a cutting board (30) and a rear portion (32) carrying multiple rows of removable food product pans (36) extending into the cabinet. The unit includes a cover assembly (16) providing a fixed, foam-insulated hood (38) and a foam-insulated cover (40) pivoted to the hood for movement from a position enclosing the pan area to a position affording access to the pan area. The inside of the cabinet is provided with a forced air refrigeration system (70) which includes a fan (78) delivering air into a passage (94) which houses an evaporator coil (82) and has an upper end opening (98) for delivering cooled air onto and between the pans.