AJOT Newsroom
| August 28, 2023
| Energy
Food service buildings including restaurants are nearly four times more energy intensive than commercial buildings are on average in the United States. Food service buildings were the smallest commercial building type, averaging 4,800 square feet per building, or less than one-third the size of the average commercial building (16,300 square feet), according to our recently published 2018 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS).