Can you handle a few units on one visit if they are all downtown?

Yes. Downtown San Mateo is dense enough that we often batch two or three back-bar or beverage center calls on the same trip, and we will ask if any neighboring restaurants have open tickets when we schedule you.

How fast can you reach downtown San Mateo?

Our technician lives and works out of San Mateo County now, so downtown San Mateo is about as close to home as our routes get. Call (925) 999-4095 and we will fit you into the next available slot with a written arrival window.

What does a Perlick repair run in San Mateo?

Diagnostic is $99 and it is waived once you book the repair. We give you a written quote before ordering parts, so you know the number before we start.

PERLICK · SAN MATEO

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Perlick Commercial Refrigeration Repair · San Mateo, CA

Perlick back-bar and beer dispensing repair for San Mateo, covering the B Street and Third Avenue restaurant row downtown.

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

Call (925) 999-4095

Perlick in San Mateo

Perlick commercial service.

Downtown San Mateo runs one of the more established restaurant and bar strips on this part of the Peninsula, concentrated along B Street and Third Avenue in a mix of older brick storefronts and newer builds. Cocktail-forward rooms and full-service restaurants both lean on Perlick back-bar refrigeration and direct-draw beer systems, and the density downtown means we often get called to two or three units within a few blocks of each other on the same visit.

The older brick buildings downtown bring tight back-bar spaces with limited clearance behind the equipment, which chokes airflow to the condenser if nobody planned for it during buildout. I check clearance as part of every diagnostic here, because a unit crammed against a wall will keep failing the same way no matter how many times you clean the coil.

We hold CSLB #1136642 and carry EPA 608 certification, working as an independent shop rather than a factory outlet. Diagnostic is $99, applied to the repair cost if you approve the work, and you get that quote in writing first.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Condenser starved for airflow in a tight downtown back-bar build. Older San Mateo storefronts often box the back-bar equipment in tight, with a few inches of clearance where Perlick wants more. The condenser runs hot no matter how clean the coil is. I check clearance first, clean the coil, and where the buildout allows it I recommend the fix that actually solves the problem instead of a fourth coil cleaning in a year.
Beer dispenser pouring foam on B Street. Foamy pours with a compressor that sounds fine usually trace back to the glycol bath or worn trunk line insulation on the run to the tower. We test glycol condition, re-insulate the line where it has broken down, and confirm the faucet is pouring at temperature before we close out.
Undercounter wine and beverage cooler control board failing. Multi-zone Perlick beverage centers behind the bar sometimes lose one zone while the other holds fine, which usually traces to a failing control board or a bad zone sensor rather than the compressor. I test each zone independently and replace only the failed component.

Models we service

Perlick product lines.

Tobin Ellis Signature bar
Glass washers
Undercounter refrigeration
Beer dispensing systems
Back-bar refrigeration

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.

Recent work

Perlick jobs we have closed.

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FAQ

Perlick in San Mateo questions, answered.

Can you handle a few units on one visit if they are all downtown?

Yes. Downtown San Mateo is dense enough that we often batch two or three back-bar or beverage center calls on the same trip, and we will ask if any neighboring restaurants have open tickets when we schedule you.
How fast can you reach downtown San Mateo?

Our technician lives and works out of San Mateo County now, so downtown San Mateo is about as close to home as our routes get. Call (925) 999-4095 and we will fit you into the next available slot with a written arrival window.
What does a Perlick repair run in San Mateo?

Diagnostic is $99 and it is waived once you book the repair. We give you a written quote before ordering parts, so you know the number before we start.

Need Perlick service in San Mateo?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.