McDonald's Denmark Opens World's First HFC-Free Restaurant
McDonald's Denmark recently opened the world's first HFC-free restaurant. The restaurant is part of a new initiative to help reduce the potential effects of climate change on the environment. This McDonald's is equipped with state-of-the-art refrigeration and ventilation systems using environmentally innovative refrigerants that do not contain freon, or HFCs (hydroflurocarbons). This pilot program is the first of its kind in the quick service restaurant industry.
The new restaurant officially opened January 16, 2003 by the Danish environmental minister, Hans Chr. Schmidt, in the town of Vejle, uses 100% HFC-free technology in all its refrigeration and ventilation equipment, including refrigerators, refrigerating rooms, freezing rooms, A/C equipment, and soda, juice and ice-cream machines.