Imperial Brown Food Service
Main Auction Services, Inc., buys and sells the latest food service and restaurant equipment by the world’s leading manufacturers such as Imperial Brown Food Service products.
Imperial Brown® is one of the world’s top manufacturers of custom walk-in coolers and freezers. Imperial Walk-in Coolers was established in Portland in 1970 by Al Zell to serve the commercial refrigeration industry by manufacturing the insulated panels used to build walk-in coolers and freezers. In 2012, Imperial Manufacturing of Portland, OR, acquired W.A. Brown & Son of Salisbury, NC, a 100-year-old walk-in cooler manufacturer, to form Imperial Brown. In a four-year period, the North Carolina plant grew from 40 employees to 130, with a $15 million increase in revenue.

In 2017, Imperial Brown acquired a third manufacturing facility located in Prague, OK, with plans to invest more than $1.5 million in new equipment in the plant within the initial two-year period of ownership. With locations networked on the East and West coasts and in the Heartland, we are positioned to serve customers promptly and cost efficiently.
Imperial Brown does refine products, using the most up-to-date materials and engineering expertise to provide world-class products. Their products withstand the most extreme temperature and weather conditions. The company is a leader in temperature management facilities for food service, biotechnology, medical and building construction industries. Imperial Brown does manufacture walk-in coolers and freezers for restaurants and commercial kitchens, cold storage components for fish processing plants, ice makers for dam construction, wide range testing chambers, pharmaceutical development and manufacturing, high humidity and dry chambers, robotic enclosures, and archival storage chambers for some of the most valuable and fragile documents in human history.
Imperial Brown’s know-how and our whole-system flexibility allow us to offer products specifically designed for various applications. With our in house design specialists, Imperial Brown can customize a cold storage solution for your business and space. We also offer our hybrid design for certain applications which can help to reduce your costs.
Take a look at our product lines:
- Food Service
- Restaurants
- Schools
- Breweries/Wineries
- Hospitals
- Hotels
- Food Production and Storage
- Casinos
- Stadiums
- Commissaries
- Grocery & C-Stores
More than just a walk-in manufacturer, Imperial Brown is your Customization Experts for designing cold storage solutions for restaurants, schools, hotels, hospitals, breweries/wineries, casinos, stadiums, commissaries, food production and storage, and many other applications.
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Ashley ReedTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Always great to work with! Very helpful! Wes DowdTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Awesome selection and super helpful staff! They had exactly what we needed, and reasonably priced. I highly recommend them. Pedro MendezTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Great customer service Rom's BrdtTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. I recommend !! Excellent shopping experience !! Blake BristerTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Smooth email process with Briana, the owner Francois has an extensive history as a chef from France and seems to really be interested in being fair and helping business owners with restaurant equipment! Will do business here again! Maxence Jurado RoulerTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. very nice product and great customer service !!:) BV Brands LLC InvestmentsTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. From all of our restaurant builds done in DFW this is the first and last stop for reliable used equipment and when needed new equipment without the excess costs. maggie sermersheimTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Great to work with and extremely helpful