Commercial Refrigeration & Ice Machine Repair · Richmond, CA

Refrigeration and ice repair for Richmond kitchens

Richmond’s commercial kitchens cluster along Macdonald Avenue and 23rd Street, two of the East Bay’s longest-running commercial corridors, packed with taquerias, panaderias, and family-run restaurants and markets. Point Richmond has its own small run of restaurants and cafes tucked into the old historic district, and Marina Bay’s newer waterfront development has added retail and dining along the water. The refinery and shipping terminals along the shoreline keep their own break rooms and cafeterias running for shift crews. Owners across all of it want a tech who opens the panel and finds the actual problem, not a truck roll that ends in a sales pitch.

We cover the full range of commercial equipment: walk-in coolers and freezers, reach-ins, prep and sandwich tables, undercounter units, and the ice machines that keep a counter moving through a lunch rush. Common Richmond calls: a Macdonald Avenue taqueria’s reach-in running warm off a dirty condenser, a 23rd Street panaderia’s prep table icing over from a bad defrost timer, a Point Richmond cafe’s undercounter unit short-cycling on a failing start relay. We carry fan motors, relays, thermostats, contactors, and gaskets on the truck, so most Richmond calls involve parts we usually stock.

Ice runs steady on both corridors and at the refinery-adjacent break rooms. Richmond’s water is moderately hard, the same East Bay supply as Berkeley and El Cerrito, and a cuber that never gets descaled starts producing cloudy, thin cubes before it stops harvesting altogether. We’re Manitowoc-certified, factory-trained on Indigo NXT and NEO undercounter lines, and we service Hoshizaki, Scotsman, and the rest as an independent shop. Most no-ice calls trace back to scale, a stuck water valve, or a failed harvest cycle, and we’d rather rebuild 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 covers the newer Atosa and self-contained undercounter units around town. Compressor swaps, leak repair, evacuation, and weigh-in, done by the same tech who ran the diagnostic.

Point Richmond and the Richmond Annex, bordering El Cerrito, carry a smaller pocket of nicer homes running built-in Sub-Zero and U-Line refrigeration. We service those too, and we’ll say plainly when an old built-in isn’t worth chasing once parts get hard to source.

Diagnostic is $99, credited toward the repair, with a written quote before any work. Down during service? Call (925) 999-4095, tell us it’s an outage, and we’ll prioritize it. Richmond rides the same Inner East Bay day as our Berkeley, Albany, and El Cerrito calls, about 40 to 45 minutes from San Ramon out 580 or Highway 24 to 80. We’re dispatched 7AM to 7PM seven days, same number for after-hours. We’re a service line of ADRIUM Service Solutions, alongside Bay Area HVAC Service and Bay Area Coffee Service.