Northline C2 Compact · Launching January
The filter that fits under the counter you already have.
Northline C2 Compact protects your ice machine, espresso, steamers and dish line for about $0.004 a gallon, with one cartridge change every six months.
15 minutes·One photo is enough to check the fit·No contract to talk
Illustrative sample figures.
Bad water is quiet until it's expensive.
Chlorine shows up in the taste of the coffee and the smell of the ice. Sediment and hardness show up later, as scale inside the ice machine, the espresso boiler, the steamer and the dish machine. Nobody sees it build. Everyone sees the service call.
What you're weighing
Downtime. Water quality. Cost per gallon.
Downtime
One cartridge change every six months.
Fewer service calls than the category norm. Scale is a service call you haven't booked yet; the C2 keeps it out of the machines that go down on a Friday.
Water quality
Takes out the chlorine taste, the sediment, and the hardness that turns into scale.
Clear ice. Coffee that tastes like coffee. Water in the glass that doesn't taste like the pool.
Cost per gallon
About fifty cents a shift.
At typical restaurant volume, about 250 gallons a day, that's about $1 a day in filtration. Put it next to one descaling call and do the math.
What it protects
Every line that touches the guest.
- Ice machineClear ice without the pool smell. Less scale inside the machine.
- EspressoA shot that tastes right, and less scale in the boiler.
- SteamersLess hardness in, fewer descaling calls out.
- Dish lineLess scale in the machine that runs every hour of service.
2.0 gallons a minute, sustained, so the ice machine and the dish line can draw at the same time. That's 120 gallons an hour.
The math
Pennies per shift, in a spreadsheet.
The math, one interval
Two cartridge changes a year. Illustrative sample figures.
of filtration per six-month interval
45,000 gallons at about $0.004 a gallon is about $180 of filtration per six-month interval. That's the number your facilities team can put in a budget line.
Two readers
Same promise. Two different first sentences.
For the GM or owner
Your guests taste your water before they taste your food: in the coffee, the ice, the glass on the table. The C2 Compact takes out the chlorine taste and the hardness that scales up your ice machine and espresso boiler. It fits under the counter you already have, and it costs about fifty cents a shift.
For facilities and operations
Scale is a service call you haven't booked yet. The C2 Compact filters 45,000 gallons per cartridge set at 2.0 gpm sustained, which works out to one cartridge change every six months at typical restaurant volume and about $0.004 a gallon. It fits a standard under-counter bay at about half the width of our full-size unit.
Already run a Northline full-size unit? The C2 Compact does the same job for the sites where it doesn't fit: the bar, the coffee station, the second kitchen.
How it fits and installs
Fits the bay you already have.
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Send us a photo of the cabinet.
Open the doors under the counter and take one picture. We'll tell you if the C2 fits.
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It mounts on the back wall of the bay.
About half the width of Northline's full-size unit, it fits a standard under-counter bay, on the cold-water line you already have.
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Twice a year, swap the cartridge set.
One change every six months at typical restaurant volume. Shut the valve, change the cartridges, open the valve.
Northline C2 Compact
Specifications
- Footprint
- Fits a standard under-counter bay, about half the width of Northline's full-size unit
- Capacity
- About 45,000 gallons per cartridge set
- Flow
- 2.0 gpm sustained (120 gallons an hour)
- Service interval
- One cartridge change about every 6 months at typical restaurant volume
- Cost per gallon
- About $0.004 per gallon filtered
- Removes
- Chlorine taste and odor, sediment, scale-causing hardness
- Protects
- Ice machines, espresso, steamers, dish lines
All specifications are illustrative sample figures.
Questions
What operators ask us.
"We don't have room."
That's why we built it. It's about half the width of our full-size unit and fits a standard under-counter bay. Send us a photo of the cabinet and we'll tell you.
"Cartridges are a racket."
One change every six months. About $0.004 a gallon. Put it next to one descaling call and do the math.
"Our water's fine."
Taste the ice. Then look inside the espresso boiler at the next service.
"Will it keep up on a Friday?"
2.0 gallons a minute sustained. That's 120 gallons an hour, with the ice machine and the dish line drawing at once.
"We already filter the ice machine."
Good. The C2 covers the espresso, the steamers and the dish line too, from one unit under one counter.
Talk to us
Book a 15-minute demo, or send us a photo of the cabinet.
Tell us about the site. If you send a photo of the open cabinet, we'll tell you whether the C2 fits the bay.