Venstar Boosts Comfort and Slashes Energy Costs for Café Zupas

- Thanks to Venstar thermostats with skyport access -

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Café Zupas Remotely Manages
Energy Usage Across 82 Stores

Results and Analytics

Reduced
energy costs

Indoor
comfort

82

Locations
managed

Remotely Control and Reduce Energy Usage and Costs

With 82 stores across eight states, Café Zupas restaurant chain delivers “house-made happiness” with its healthy menu designed to “nourish the good life,” its tagline. Headquartered in Sandy, Utah, Café Zupas standardized on Venstar’s ColorTouch (T8900) commercial thermostats with Skyport app to remotely manage and control energy usage for all of its stores

Objectives

Manage energy usage and reduce costs.
Ensure comfort for the customers and staff.
Gain visibility into the health of the rooftop units.

Solution

Skyport Cloud and ColorTouch

Easy to Install and Use
Instant Remote Management
Secure, Setpoint Limiting
Remote Temperature sensor ensuring comfort

“Venstar's Color Touch with Skyport enable me to remotely manage the thermostats at 82 stores across eight states.”

Tyler Harris, Owner's Representative for Café Zupas

PRODUCTS USED

Venstar’s free Skyport Cloud Services allow users of Venstar’s Wi-Fi thermostats to use Venstar’s free Skyport Mobile App on their Apple iOS and Android mobile devices or directly from the Web to instantly access and control multiple thermostats at numerous locations from virtually anywhere.

ColorTouch Commercial models offer 365-day programming or can be used as nonprogrammable thermostats. They include security features and setpoint limiting. ColorTouch can remotely control, monitor or average temperatures with remote sensors.

Skyport

ColorTouch

Skyport

ColorTouch

ColorTouch Commercial Thermostats + Skyport Cloud Services

Café Zupas chose Venstar's ColorTouch thermostats with Venstar's Skyport Cloud Services, which enable them to remotely control and change the settings of all of the thermostats at once in regional groups from a desktop computer or mobile app.

In addition, when two thermostats are serving the same dining area, Cafe Zupas can see if one is in heating mode and the other in cooling mode, working against each other. Skyport makes it easy to resolve this issue.

• Easy to Install and Use:
Because of their ease of installation, Harris personally installed the ColorTouch thermostats in the stores' kitchens.He also installed remote temperature sensors in the dining areas so he can remotely ensure guest comfort.

• Instant Remote Management:
Using Skyport from his desktop or mobile phone enables Harris to confidently know the kitchen and dining room temperatures as well as which rooftop units are running.

• Secure, Setpoint Limiting:
Although all of the thermostats are locked to prevent tampering, setpoint limiting allows local staff to adjust the temperatures up or down a few degrees to ensure indoor comfort.

ColorTouch Commercial
Thermostats + Skyport App

Café Zupas chose Venstar's ColorTouch thermostats with Venstar's Skyport App, which enable him to remotely control and change the settings of all of the thermostats at once in regional groups, all from his desktop computer or mobile phone.

Overall Results:
Effortlessly Manage & Control Energy Costs from Anywhere

Harris is delighted with the easy-to-use ColorTouch thermostats that are remotely managed with Venstar's Skyport desktop and mobile app.

Reduced energy costs by managing rooftop unit runtimes
Improved indoor comfort for store guests and staff
Automatic Daylight Savings Time adjustments

Easily program and make changes with intuitive Skyport dashboard
Schedule runtimes for 365 days a year for all 82 locations
Global changes for regional control and scheduling

About

Venstar, founded in 1992 and based in Southern California, designs and builds a broad variety of innovative thermostats with over 10 million units installed.

Venstar’s Skyport Cloud service provides businesses with a secure and private, powerful cloud service for command and control of HVAC systems from anywhere in the world.

The company’s Surveyor Energy Management System enables retailers, restaurant chains, and other multi-location businesses to remotely monitor, manage, and control energy consumption, while reducing maintenance expenses. Currently, Surveyor is used to control over 100,000 HVAC systems and building lighting in more than 30,000 retail locations across North America.

Venstar LLC is a wholly owned business unit of Daikin Comfort Technologies North America, Inc. (Daikin), a subsidiary of Daikin Industries, Ltd.

“Venstar's Skyport makes it easy to resolve environment control issues, such as if one thermostat is in heating mode and another in cooling mode, working against each other.”