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Maintenance Division

Preventative maintenance and emergency repair programs

Most emergency calls we run were preventable: dirty condensers, worn gaskets, scaled ice machines and drifting thermostats. A maintenance program catches those on our clock instead of during your dinner rush, and gives you a written service history for every unit in the building.

Overview

Why this work matters

Reactive repair is the most expensive way to own commercial kitchen equipment. The invoice is only part of it — the real cost is the product you dump when a walk-in drifts overnight, the covers you turn away when the fryer battery is down on a Friday, the overtime paid to work around a dead dish machine, and the capital spend that arrives without warning because nobody was tracking condition.

A maintenance program moves that spend from unpredictable to planned. We start by tagging your assets so service history follows the equipment rather than a stack of paper tickets. Visit frequency is then set per asset class and volume — a high-volume fryer line and a back-office undercounter do not need the same interval — and scheduled around your service hours.

The output of every visit is a written condition report per asset with a repair forecast. That forecast is what lets you replace a fifteen-year-old compressor during a slow week in a budget cycle you planned, instead of at 6pm on a Saturday at emergency rates.

Emergency repair is still part of the division, because equipment fails. Program customers get priority dispatch and a confirmed arrival window — and because we already hold the asset history, technicians arrive knowing the model, the service record and usually the likely failure.

What this division covers

Preventative Maintenance Programs

Monthly, quarterly or semi-annual visits scheduled around your service hours, with a written condition report and repair forecast per asset.

Commercial Refrigeration Maintenance

Condenser and evaporator cleaning, refrigerant and superheat checks, defrost verification, gasket and door alignment, and temperature logging.

Restaurant Equipment Servicing

Fryers, ranges, ovens, steamers, dish machines, mixers and holding equipment inspected, calibrated and repaired with OEM parts.

Emergency Repair Service Programs

Priority dispatch for plan customers with confirmed arrival windows, stocked trucks and a written diagnosis before work begins.

Seasonal Equipment Tune-Ups

Pre-summer refrigeration and ice machine prep, cold-weather gas and heating checks, and holiday-volume readiness inspections.

Parts Replacement & Warranty Coordination

Sourcing, tracking and installing replacement parts, plus warranty claim filing and follow-through with the manufacturer.

What you get

Documented work, start to finish

  • Digital service history for every asset and location
  • Health-inspection ready documentation
  • Fewer mid-service failures and less emergency spend
  • Consolidated dispatch and single-invoice billing for multi-site groups
Commercial gas fryer with baskets serviced by a technician

How it runs

Our maintenance process

  1. 01

    Asset inventory

    We tag and record every unit — make, model, serial, location — so service history follows the equipment, not a paper ticket.

  2. 02

    Program schedule

    Visit frequency is set per asset class and volume, then scheduled around your service hours rather than ours.

  3. 03

    Scheduled visit

    Coil cleaning, gasket and door checks, refrigerant and gas safety verification, calibration and electrical inspection.

  4. 04

    Report & forecast

    You get a condition report per asset with repair forecasts, so replacements land in a budget cycle instead of a crisis.

Scope

What's included

  • Condenser and evaporator coil cleaning
  • Refrigerant, superheat and defrost verification
  • Gasket, hinge and door alignment service
  • Thermostat and control calibration with temperature logging
  • Gas safety, ignition and combustion checks
  • Written condition report and repair forecast per asset
  • * Major component replacement is quoted separately before work begins
  • * Hood cleaning and fire suppression certification is coordinated with licensed partners

Signals

When operators call us for this

  • Emergency repair spend keeps climbing quarter over quarter
  • Walk-in temperatures drift on hot afternoons
  • Ice production drops off during peak season
  • You can't produce service history for an inspection or insurance review

Equipment focus

The equipment this division touches

Every category below is handled in-house by technicians who work on it weekly, across all major commercial foodservice brands regardless of who originally supplied it.

Refrigeration

Coil cleaning, refrigerant and superheat verification, defrost cycle checks, gasket and hinge service, drain line clearing, and temperature logging across walk-ins, reach-ins and prep units.

Cooking equipment

Burner and pilot service, thermostat and control calibration, gas safety and combustion checks, fryer high-limit testing, and door seal and hinge adjustment on ovens and combis.

Warewashing

Descaling, wash and rinse temperature verification, chemical feed calibration, spray arm and jet cleaning, and booster heater performance checks.

Ice & beverage

Cleaning and sanitizing on manufacturer intervals, water filter replacement, scale control, production rate testing and bin thermostat verification.

Costly mistakes

What we see go wrong most often

These are the patterns behind the majority of the avoidable failures we get called out to. None of them are exotic — they are all decisions made to save time or money that cost multiples of both later.

Cleaning coils once a year

In Texas kitchens, condenser coils load with grease and dust far faster than the manual assumes. Dirty coils raise head pressure, shorten compressor life and quietly add to the power bill for months before anything fails.

Ignoring gaskets

A torn gasket is a cheap part that makes an expensive compressor run continuously. It is the single most common finding on our first visit to a new account.

No service history at all

Without history there is no way to tell whether a unit is worth another repair. Operators end up paying for a third repair on equipment that should have been replaced after the first.

Who we work with

Operations we support

Restaurants & bars

Independent kitchens and multi-unit groups that need the line back up before the next service.

Hotels & catering

Banquet kitchens, room service lines and event catering with unpredictable peak loads.

Schools & universities

Cafeteria and commissary equipment maintained on academic calendars and inspection cycles.

Healthcare & senior living

Regulated kitchens where temperature documentation and uptime are non-negotiable.

Grocery & convenience

Deli cases, prep coolers, ice and hot-hold equipment kept in spec across store footprints.

Food trucks & ghost kitchens

Compact builds where every inch of cold storage and every burner has to earn its place.

Brands we work on

Brand-agnostic, regardless of who supplied it

  • True
  • Turbo Air
  • Manitowoc
  • Hoshizaki
  • Scotsman
  • Vulcan
  • Frymaster
  • Pitco
  • Rational
  • Hobart
  • Garland
  • Traulsen
  • Duke
  • Bunn
  • CMA
  • Henny Penny
  • EPA Section 608 certified refrigeration technicians
  • Licensed gas and electrical trade coordination
  • NSF-listed equipment and shelving specifications
  • Manufacturer warranty filing on your behalf
  • Fully insured crews with COI on request

Local delivery

Maintenance Services in our Texas markets

Questions

Maintenance Services FAQ

Site directory

Maintenance elsewhere on the site

Other divisions, the Texas markets we cover, and city pages for this division.

Service divisions

  • Installation Services

    Set, connected, started up and verified — walk-ins, ice machines, cooking lines and hood systems installed by crews who commission equipment every week.

  • Maintenance Services (current page)

    Scheduled visits, documented per asset, plus emergency coverage for the nights when something still goes down mid-service.

  • Storage Solutions

    Layouts, shelving and refrigerated capacity planned around how your kitchen actually receives, rotates and pulls product.

  • Consulting Services

    Equipment planning, layout and workflow support, procurement coordination and compliance guidance before a single unit is ordered.

  • All commercial kitchen services
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