What is your travel time from San Ramon to Berkeley?

Roughly 35 minutes through the Caldecott Tunnel on 24 outside rush hour. Berkeley slots into the same routing as Oakland, Piedmont, and Orinda, so mornings on that corridor usually have room for a same-day or next-day call.

Our cafe cannot close during the day. Do you do early or late visits?

Yes. We run seven days and can schedule before opening or after close for a Berkeley cafe. Diagnosis on most Beverage-Air undercounters takes under an hour, and we plan repairs around your service hours.

The unit is over ten years old. Is it worth repairing?

Often yes. A fan motor, gasket, or controller costs a fraction of a new cabinet, and Beverage-Air boxes are simple to keep alive. If the compressor or a rusted-out coil is the problem, we put replacement math in the written quote and let you decide.

BEVERAGE-AIR · BERKELEY

Service · All Beverage-Air Models

Beverage-Air Commercial Refrigeration Repair · Berkeley, CA

Beverage-Air repair for Berkeley cafes, from Shattuck Avenue to Telegraph

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

Call (925) 999-4095

Beverage-Air in Berkeley

Beverage-Air commercial service.

Berkeley might have more coffee shops and small restaurants per block than any city we serve. The Gourmet Ghetto on Shattuck, the Telegraph Avenue student corridor, and Fourth Street all run on compact commercial refrigeration, and Beverage-Air undercounters and reach-ins are everywhere in those kitchens. Our commercial division, Bay Area Refrigeration Service, covers all of it.

Old buildings are the Berkeley complication. A lot of these kitchens are hundred-year-old storefronts with poor ventilation and tight equipment lines, so condensers clog fast and units run hot against the wall. When a cafe owner calls me about a warm milk cooler, I start with airflow and refrigerant charge, because in Berkeley kitchens that is the answer far more often than a dead compressor.

We are EPA Section 608 Universal certified, licensed CSLB #1136642, and we work seven days, which matters when your espresso bar cannot open without cold milk. The $75 diagnostic is waived with repair and every job gets a written quote.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Grease-bound condenser fans in cramped cafe kitchens. Beverage-Air worktop and undercounter units squeezed next to espresso machines and panini grills pull in steam and grease. The condenser fan motor coats up, slows, and seizes, and the unit loses capacity right through the morning rush. We swap the motor, degrease the coil, and check clearances behind the unit.
Iced evaporator coils in high-traffic student-area shops. Doors near Telegraph get opened hundreds of times a day, and gaskets tear early. Humid air loads the evaporator with frost until it is a block of ice and the cabinet warms. We replace the gasket, thaw the coil, verify the defrost heater or off-cycle defrost, and check the drain line.
Thermostat drift spoiling dairy in milk coolers. Cafes here run Beverage-Air units right at dairy-safe margins, and a drifting probe or failing controller lets milk sit at 45 instead of 38. We verify actual cabinet temperature against the display, replace faulty probes or boards, and set the unit so it holds temperature honestly.

Models we service

Beverage-Air product lines.

Reach-ins
Back-bar coolers
Under-counters
Prep tables

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

Beverage-Air in Berkeley questions, answered.

What is your travel time from San Ramon to Berkeley?

Roughly 35 minutes through the Caldecott Tunnel on 24 outside rush hour. Berkeley slots into the same routing as Oakland, Piedmont, and Orinda, so mornings on that corridor usually have room for a same-day or next-day call.
Our cafe cannot close during the day. Do you do early or late visits?

Yes. We run seven days and can schedule before opening or after close for a Berkeley cafe. Diagnosis on most Beverage-Air undercounters takes under an hour, and we plan repairs around your service hours.
The unit is over ten years old. Is it worth repairing?

Often yes. A fan motor, gasket, or controller costs a fraction of a new cabinet, and Beverage-Air boxes are simple to keep alive. If the compressor or a rusted-out coil is the problem, we put replacement math in the written quote and let you decide.

Need Beverage-Air service in Berkeley?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.