Commercial Refrigeration Repair · Palo Alto, CA

Palo Alto commercial refrigeration sits on the University Avenue and California Avenue corridors. The restaurants and cafes there run Hoshizaki KM-series cubers, Manitowoc Indigo NXT heads for cocktail programs, and Atosa R290 prep tables in the back. There is also a stretch of sushi and Japanese kitchens here that run refrigerated display cases, and those bring a different problem: the case holds warmer than the display reads, and the fish sits at the wrong temperature while the panel looks fine.

On a sushi case that holds warm I check the actual product temperature against the readout before condemning anything bigger. A lot of the time the temperature sensor has drifted or the case is short on airflow, not low on refrigerant, so I verify the real hold and correct the sensor or airflow side first. On the cuber side, the University Avenue kitchens are tight and the condensers grease up fast, so a slow or short-cycling KM-series usually wants a condenser clean and a descale, not a board. Atosa prep tables get the gasket and condensate drain checked first, with sealed-system R290 work handled in-house if it goes deeper.