Energy usage pie charts can be a good start for determining areas of your restaurant in which to start looking for energy savings. Typically, the larger the piece of the pie the more areas of potential in finding energy savings.

Note: Though ventilation is listed under other for this chart, much of the cost of kitchen ventilation includes the heating and cooling of this air being circulated by ventilation hoods and the makeup air units.

Wisconsin restaurants and taverns consume a significant portion of the state's energy use as an aggregate group with well over 14,000 food service businesses in the state. These businesses typically operate with a tight profit margin where any decrease in operating costs can result in an improvement to the bottom line. Focus on Energy's Commercial Sector has targeted the food service industry for assistance with energy efficiency projects and activities.

Wisconsin's Restaurant industry can be broken down into three segments:
      Full Serve Restaurants
      Fast/Quick Serve
      Tavern Oriented

How Focus on Energy Can Help You
Focus on Energy is designed to assist restaurants and taverns in controlling their energy costs. Energy costs account for a growing percentage of operating costs. Therefore, energy management in food service businesses is both a challenge and an opportunity. The Focus on Energy program can help meet this challenge by assisting in the identification and implementation of energy efficiency improvement opportunities.

Focus on Energy can assist your facility by:

• Providing guidance and technical information for improving your energy efficiency.
• Assisting in the estimation of a project's energy and cost savings.
• Providing financial assistance for project implementation and feasibility studies.