Commercial Refrigeration & Ice Machine Repair · Berkeley, CA

Refrigeration and ice repair for Berkeley kitchens

Berkeley runs one of the densest independent food scenes in the East Bay, and almost none of it is chain equipment you can swap blind. The restaurants around Shattuck and the Gourmet Ghetto, the late-night spots on Telegraph near campus, the cafes and small producers out in West Berkeley, the markets and corner stores in the flatlands. When the cold side goes down, these owners want someone who’ll actually diagnose the unit, not a parts-changer guessing on the clock.

We handle the full commercial range here. Walk-in coolers and freezers, reach-ins, prep and sandwich tables, bar and back-bar coolers, undercounter units, and the ice machines that keep a bar moving. Common Berkeley calls: a walk-in evaporator iced over because the defrost timer or heater quit, a True reach-in that won’t pull below 45 with a failed evap-fan motor, a prep table holding warm on a dirty condenser, a bar cooler short-cycling on a bad start component. We carry fan motors, relays, thermostats, contactors, and door gaskets on the truck, so a lot of these are one-visit fixes.

Ice is its own headache in Berkeley. The municipal water here is on the softer side compared to deeper East Bay wells, but cafe and restaurant volume still scales any minerals fast, and machines that never get a descale start producing thin, cloudy cubes or stop harvesting. We’re Manitowoc-certified, factory-trained on Indigo NXT modular, NEO undercounter, and QuietQube remote-condenser heads, and we service Hoshizaki KM cubers, Scotsman, and the rest as an independent shop. Most no-ice calls trace to scale, a stuck water valve, or a failed harvest cycle, and we’ll clean and rebuild rather than push a new machine.

Sealed-system work stays in-house. We hold EPA #1279674151528 for refrigerant recovery and we’re R290 hydrocarbon-trained, which matters for the Atosa and modern undercounter units around town. Compressor swaps, leak repair, evacuation, and weigh-in done right.

The Berkeley Hills and North Berkeley remodels run built-in Sub-Zero and U-Line. We service those too, with the same straight talk about whether a part is worth chasing.

Diagnostic is $75, waived when we do the repair, and you get a written quote before any work. Down during service? Call (925) 999-4095, say it’s an outage, and we’ll prioritize it. We’re dispatched from San Ramon, 7AM to 7PM seven days, same number for after-hours emergencies. We’re a service line of ADRIUM Service Solutions, alongside Bay Area HVAC Service and Bay Area Refrigeration Service.