Is it true you have a technician based here in San Mateo?

Yes. Our Peninsula-based technician lives in San Mateo and covers the surrounding cities from here, which means San Mateo calls get some of the fastest response we offer outside San Ramon itself.

Can you work around our lunch-to-dinner schedule without shutting us down mid-service?

That is usually how we prefer to schedule it. Tell us your slow window when you call and we will aim the visit for it instead of walking in during a rush.

What's included in the $99 diagnostic?

A technician on site with amp meters and refrigeration gauges, checking the compressor, electrical components, and sealed system to find the actual cause. If you approve the repair, the $99 comes off your bill, and you get a written quote regardless.

CONTINENTAL REFRIGERATOR · SAN MATEO

Service · All Continental Models

Continental Refrigerator Commercial Refrigeration Repair · San Mateo, CA

Continental refrigeration repair for San Mateo's 25th Avenue and B Street restaurant rows, backed by our technician who lives right here.

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

Call (925) 999-4095

Continental Refrigerator in San Mateo

Continental Refrigerator commercial service.

San Mateo's restaurant density along 25th Avenue and the B Street corridor downtown means a lot of Continental prep tables and reach-ins running through back-to-back lunch and dinner turns, seven days a week. These are working kitchens in older downtown buildings, and the equipment gets used hard.

I run that side of the business as Bay Area Refrigeration Service, our commercial refrigeration division headquartered in San Ramon, and I'm the one holding the EPA Section 608 Universal certification and the CSLB license, #1136642. Diagnostics are $99 and get waived as soon as you give the go ahead on the repair, with a written quote in your hands before that happens.

San Mateo is where our Peninsula technician actually lives, so a call here is about as local as it gets outside San Ramon itself. That coverage extends out to Burlingame, Belmont, and Foster City on the same daily loop.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Run capacitor failures from back-to-back service turns. A 25th Avenue kitchen running lunch straight into dinner with barely a break gives a Continental compressor almost no rest cycle, and that is what finishes a weak run capacitor. I meter the compressor's amp draw against its nameplate rating first, and swap the capacitor and relay together once the compressor itself checks out healthy.
Condenser coil grease loading in older downtown buildings. Downtown San Mateo's older commercial buildings were not built with today's kitchen equipment in mind, and Continental condensers often end up mounted closer to the cook line than they should be. I pull the coil, degrease it properly, and check head pressure before calling the job done.
Evaporator drain freeze-ups from high door-cycling volume. B Street's foot traffic keeps walk-in and reach-in doors opening constantly through service, and that humid air load overworks the drain line until it freezes and backs up. I clear the ice, correct the drain pitch, and confirm the defrost cycle is actually terminating on schedule instead of running short.

Models we service

Continental Refrigerator product lines.

Reach-ins
Prep tables
Under-counters

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

Continental Refrigerator in San Mateo questions, answered.

Is it true you have a technician based here in San Mateo?

Yes. Our Peninsula-based technician lives in San Mateo and covers the surrounding cities from here, which means San Mateo calls get some of the fastest response we offer outside San Ramon itself.
Can you work around our lunch-to-dinner schedule without shutting us down mid-service?

That is usually how we prefer to schedule it. Tell us your slow window when you call and we will aim the visit for it instead of walking in during a rush.
What's included in the $99 diagnostic?

A technician on site with amp meters and refrigeration gauges, checking the compressor, electrical components, and sealed system to find the actual cause. If you approve the repair, the $99 comes off your bill, and you get a written quote regardless.

Need Continental Refrigerator service in San Mateo?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.