Friendly’s Ice Cream Corporation chose energy-efficient, environmentally friendly LED lighting when renovating its Westfield, MA, restaurant. The company, which has over 500 restaurants, replaced the incandescent downlights in the restaurant’s dining room with fixtures from Cree.
 
The change dramatically reduced energy consumption while improving the customer experience with high-quality, warm-white LED lighting. Cree’s 12-watt LR6 fixtures replaced 65-watt BR30 incandescent lamps. Electricity requirements for lighting fell from 5135 W down to 948 W, an 80% decrease in energy consumption for lighting.
 
Reduced maintenance costs will also speed up the payback time for Friendly’s since LED lighting has a significantly longer lifetime than incandescent lighting.
 
The LR6s were installed in July 2007 and were tested two years later to measure performance. When the lights were removed, tests found they were still producing 650 lumens and consuming just 12 W. And, there was no color shifting either.