What's your travel time from San Ramon to El Cerrito?

About 40 to 45 minutes on 580 or Highway 24 into 80. El Cerrito is routed with Berkeley and Richmond on the same Inner-East-Bay days, so a booked window comes with a written arrival time.

We can't shut down during business hours. Can you come before opening or after close?

That's standard practice for us here. Most Beverage-Air diagnostics wrap up in under an hour, and we'll build the visit around whatever hours keep your San Pablo Avenue storefront open without a gap.

This unit is over ten years old. Does fixing it still make sense?

In most cases, yes. A fan motor, a gasket, or a controller board costs a small fraction of what a new cabinet runs, and these boxes are simple enough to keep going for years past that mark. If the compressor's shot or a coil has rusted through, we lay out the replacement numbers in the quote and leave the call to you.

BEVERAGE-AIR · EL CERRITO

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Beverage-Air Commercial Refrigeration Repair · El Cerrito, CA

Beverage-Air repair for El Cerrito cafes and restaurants, from San Pablo Avenue to El Cerrito Plaza

$99 diagnostic (waived with repair)
Same or next-day best effort
CSLB #1136642

Call (925) 999-4095

Beverage-Air in El Cerrito

Beverage-Air commercial service.

El Cerrito's food and beverage businesses run along San Pablo Avenue and inside El Cerrito Plaza, small restaurants, bakeries, and markets that depend on compact commercial refrigeration to get through a shift. Beverage-Air undercounters and reach-ins turn up constantly in these kitchens, whether it's a bakery case up front or a prep cooler tucked in back. Our commercial division, Bay Area Refrigeration Service, handles all of it.

The older mixed-use buildings along San Pablo Avenue are the local complication, tight equipment lines with little room to breathe behind a unit, so condensers clog faster than they would in a newer build-out. When an owner calls about a warm bakery case or a milk cooler running high, I check airflow and refrigerant charge first, because in these older El Cerrito storefronts that's the answer more often than a dead compressor.

We're EPA Section 608 Universal certified, licensed CSLB #1136642, and we work seven days, which matters for a bakery or a cafe that opens early and can't afford a cold case going down. Diagnostic runs $99, waived once you book the repair, and every job comes with a written quote first.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Grease-bound condenser fans in tight San Pablo Avenue kitchens. Beverage-Air worktop and undercounter units set close to a flat-top or a bakery oven draw in heat and grease over time. The condenser fan motor coats over, slows down, and eventually seizes, and the unit loses cooling capacity right through a lunch rush. We replace the motor, degrease the coil, and open up whatever clearance the space allows behind the unit.
Iced evaporator coils from heavy door traffic. A bakery case or cooler near El Cerrito Plaza gets opened constantly through the day, and the gasket wears out early under that kind of use. Humid air keeps loading the evaporator with frost until the whole cabinet warms up. We fit a new gasket, thaw the coil, confirm the defrost cycle is actually working, and check the drain line for blockage.
Thermostat drift spoiling product in reach-ins. A drifting temperature probe or a failing controller lets a unit run warmer than what the display shows, which is a real problem for dairy or prepped food sitting in it. We check the actual cabinet temperature against the display, swap out bad probes or boards, and calibrate the unit so the reading can be trusted.

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.

$99

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

3 months standard, 1 year on inverter boards, up to 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 El Cerrito questions, answered.

What's your travel time from San Ramon to El Cerrito?

About 40 to 45 minutes on 580 or Highway 24 into 80. El Cerrito is routed with Berkeley and Richmond on the same Inner-East-Bay days, so a booked window comes with a written arrival time.
We can't shut down during business hours. Can you come before opening or after close?

That's standard practice for us here. Most Beverage-Air diagnostics wrap up in under an hour, and we'll build the visit around whatever hours keep your San Pablo Avenue storefront open without a gap.
This unit is over ten years old. Does fixing it still make sense?

In most cases, yes. A fan motor, a gasket, or a controller board costs a small fraction of what a new cabinet runs, and these boxes are simple enough to keep going for years past that mark. If the compressor's shot or a coil has rusted through, we lay out the replacement numbers in the quote and leave the call to you.

Need Beverage-Air service in El Cerrito?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.