Our cafe is on Broadway in Millbrae. Can you service the machine before we open, and how far are you coming from?

We come from San Ramon, about 50 to 55 minutes over the San Mateo Bridge, and yes, early slots before open are how we prefer to do cafe work. We route Millbrae with our other Mid-Peninsula stops, including Hillsborough, so a first-appointment arrival is realistic most days of the week, all seven.

Do you carry Astoria parts or is everything special order?

The common wear parts are not exotic. Group gaskets, solenoids, pressurestats, and flow meter parts for the Plus 4 You and Core600 platforms are stock or next-day items. Model-specific electronics for the Storm I order by serial number after diagnosis.

Can you put us on a maintenance schedule instead of waiting for failures?

Yes, and for a machine drinking Peninsula water it pays for itself. We set an interval for gasket and screen changes, boiler checks, and descaling based on your volume. Machines we maintain almost never make the emergency call list.

ASTORIA · MILLBRAE

Service · All Astoria Models

Astoria Commercial Coffee Machine Repair · Millbrae, CA

Astoria espresso machine repair for Millbrae cafes, Plus 4 You, Storm, Core600, and Hybrid serviced on your bar.

$75 diagnostic (waived with repair)
Same or next-day best effort
CSLB #1136642

Call (925) 999-4095

Astoria in Millbrae

Astoria commercial service.

Astoria machines come out of the CMA group in Italy, and they are a natural fit for the cafe and bakery scene on and around Broadway in Millbrae. The Plus 4 You and Core600 are the ones I see most on Peninsula bar tops, with the occasional Storm in a higher-volume shop and Hybrids in newer builds. They are honest mid-market commercial machines, and they respond well to regular service.

Peninsula water is the enemy here. Scale builds in the boiler and heat exchangers, group solenoids stick, and flow meters drift, and a machine pulling shots from morning commute traffic near the BART station accumulates cycles fast. Most Astoria work I can do on site at your bar, early before you open or after the afternoon lull.

Diagnostic is $75, waived when you approve the repair, written quote first, 1-year warranty on the work. We schedule seven days because cafe equipment does not fail on a convenient day.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Group solenoid valves sticking and dripping. On the Plus 4 You and Core600 the three-way group solenoids scale up and start weeping into the drip tray or refusing to release pressure after a shot. Baristas notice sneezing pucks and inconsistent extraction. I rebuild or replace the solenoid, descale the group circuit, and check the gicleur while the group is open.
Volumetric dosing drift from a fouled flow meter. When programmed doses start running long or short on one group, the flow meter turbine is usually coated in scale or debris. On a volumetric Astoria this shows up as shots that no longer match between groups. I clean or replace the meter and reprogram doses against a scale, so your recipes hold.
Heating element and pressurestat failures from scale. A Storm or Plus 4 You that is slow to recover steam pressure, or trips its safety thermostat, usually has a scaled element or a tired pressurestat. I test element resistance, verify the pressurestat differential, and descale the boiler properly rather than just swapping parts onto a dirty system.

Models we service

Astoria product lines.

Plus 4 You
Storm and Core600
Hybrid and Tanya

Pricing and warranty

What it costs. What we stand behind.

$75

Diagnostic visit. Waived when you book the repair with us.
Written

90 days on consumables, 1 year on major parts, 2 years on sealed-system rebuilds. Quoted in writing before work starts.
CSLB

#1136642. Bonded and insured. We file warranty paperwork when applicable.

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FAQ

Astoria in Millbrae questions, answered.

Our cafe is on Broadway in Millbrae. Can you service the machine before we open, and how far are you coming from?

We come from San Ramon, about 50 to 55 minutes over the San Mateo Bridge, and yes, early slots before open are how we prefer to do cafe work. We route Millbrae with our other Mid-Peninsula stops, including Hillsborough, so a first-appointment arrival is realistic most days of the week, all seven.
Do you carry Astoria parts or is everything special order?

The common wear parts are not exotic. Group gaskets, solenoids, pressurestats, and flow meter parts for the Plus 4 You and Core600 platforms are stock or next-day items. Model-specific electronics for the Storm I order by serial number after diagnosis.
Can you put us on a maintenance schedule instead of waiting for failures?

Yes, and for a machine drinking Peninsula water it pays for itself. We set an interval for gasket and screen changes, boiler checks, and descaling based on your volume. Machines we maintain almost never make the emergency call list.

Need Astoria service in Millbrae?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.