Denny’s Corporation has specified Cree’s award-winning LR6 six-inch downlights in various applications, including dining areas and restrooms in all newly constructed and converted facilities.
Mitch Riese, corporate architect, senior manager of design & construction, Denny’s, says, Cree LR6 fixture offers the best value for their money, helping them to deliver beautiful, warm light, while significantly reducing energy consumption and maintenance requirements.
Pete LaBarre, a Denny’s franchisee in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is already seeing extensive savings since converting to LED lighting. LaBarre has installed more than 400 Cree LR6 downlights in the dining rooms of his five restaurants, a move that has saved him around $15,500 per year in energy costs alone. Impressed with the energy and maintenance savings from installing LR6 downlights in his dining rooms, LaBarre has decided to use the six-inch LED downlights in a variety of other applications. Currently he has replaced 500 fluorescent bulbs and tubes with 200 Cree LR6 fixtures, illuminating the perimeter of each restaurant.
Joey Terrell, a Denny’s franchisee in Illinois has also employed Cree’s fixtures. In 2009, Terrell opened his second restaurant in Joliet, a suburb of Chicago. Built according to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold standards, the Joliet Denny’s includes a combination of natural lighting and Cree LR6 LED downlights to reduce the restaurant’s lighting load.
Cree is a specialist in lighting-class LEDs, LED lighting solutions, and semiconductor solutions for backlighting, wireless and power applications. Cree’s product families include recessed LED down lights, blue and green LED chips, high-brightness LEDs, lighting-class power LEDs, power-switching devices and radio-frequency/wireless devices.
