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PROJECT
To serve more than 460 McDonald's restaurants
throughout northern Illinois and Indiana, GSF
recently opened a 152,670-sq.-ft. regional
headquarters and logistics center in McCook, IL.

Fast Doors For Fast-Food Distributor

Rytec high-performance doors ensure every doorway
is ready to handle high-volume, 24/7 traffic for a major food distributor.

T

o serve more than 460 McDonald's restaurants

and consists of a two-story, 17,550-sq.-ft. office compo-

40-yr.-old operation at Lemont, IL, 40 mi. to the west.

throughout northern Illinois and Indiana, GSF

nent with a 135,120-sq.-ft. warehouse/distribution space.

Masts at 15 ft. high on forklifts reach the highest shelves,

recently opened a 152,670-sq.-ft. regional head-

The company maximizes this building footprint by tak-

and each of the Rytec high-traffic doors have 16-ft.-tall

quarters and logistics center in McCook, IL. The com-

ing the ceiling height to 40 ft. and by setting up a cross-

panels to handle the traffic.

plex replaces an older facility in the area. Ware Malcomb

dock, flow-through handling pattern.

The ceiling height offers the GSF Chicago operation

Architects, Oak Brook, IL, with McShane Construction,

The distribution space breaks out to 54,000 sq. ft. of

benefits and challenges. This high-rise storage enables

Rosemont, IL, overseeing the project, designed the mas-

dry storage. The building's cascade refrigeration system

shorter aisles to make the cross-dock approach even more

sive build-to-suit facility.

maintains 14,040 sq. ft. of cooler space at 34 F and 23,400

efficient when it comes to product access.

To handle the large volume of product that flows

sq. ft. of freezer storage at 10 F to handle the bulk of the

Nevertheless, compacting the footprint means less

through the facility, the freezer storage is equipped with

quick-service restaurant (QSR) offerings, which include

wall space for cutting doorways into the walls, which is

six Rytec Corp., Jackson, WI, Turbo-Seal Insulated doors,

meat, french fries, produce and, more recently, coffee

why the facility has just three doors going into and three

and the fresh-food cooler is accessed through three Rytec

drinks. This all passes through the building across 28,080

going out of this high-volume freezer. With traffic stream-

Turbo-Seal SR self-repairing doors.

sq. ft. of cooler dock staging at 34 F.

ing into and out of the building through 47 dock doors,

More than the typical big-box distribution facility, the

Thanks in part to the 40-ft.-high ceiling enabling racks

losing a single high-traffic door would severely jeopardize

McCook building features a stylish, contemporary design

five levels high, storage capacity here is triple that of their

the deliveries. Based on its volume, the 24/7 operation
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