Independent Hobart repair
Hobart Appliance Repair in Maryland
Hobart dish machines of every size, from bar undercounters to door-type and rack conveyor units, repaired by an independent service in commercial kitchens.
Booking online works too. With the Hobart's model number in the form, we can check part availability before we come.
First the appliance and its location, then your contact details. We follow up to schedule.
Some of the brands we repair
Hobart Repair in Houses, Townhomes and Condos
Hobart is the name on a great many commercial dish machines, from the undercounter unit behind a bar to the conveyor in a cafeteria dish room. We repair Hobart machines independently, with no connection to Hobart or its own service organization. If your machine is under warranty or a service contract, use that first. Otherwise we diagnose it on site, explain what failed and why, and quote the repair for your approval before any work starts.
How a Repair Visit Works
Book the Visit
Call or use the form. Name the make and describe the fault; a model number, if handy, speeds up parts.
Find the Fault
At your place, the technician checks the appliance and whatever feeds it (power, water, drain, gas or venting) until the cause is clear.
Approve the Price
You get a plain explanation and a price for the repair. The work starts only if you say yes.
Fix and Check
The new part is fitted and the appliance is run through a cycle, so you can see it working.
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Hobart Appliances We Repair
A Troy, Ohio company inside ITW
Hobart is headquartered in Troy, Ohio, and belongs to ITW Food Equipment Group, part of Illinois Tool Works, which also owns Vulcan. Besides warewashing machines it makes mixers, slicers and other food preparation equipment.
Its dish machines come in three broad sizes: LXe-series undercounters for bars, coffee shops and small restaurants; door-type machines such as the AM series, which take one rack at a time; and CL-series rack conveyors for high-volume and institutional dish rooms. Each is offered in high-temperature or chemical-sanitizing versions.
Dish rooms in this area
We meet Hobart machines behind bars and in restaurant kitchens in downtown Bethesda and Silver Spring, in the dining spots along US 1 near the University of Maryland, and in school, church, club and senior living kitchens. A busy dinner service can keep a door-type machine cycling almost without a break.
When the machine stops, the effect is immediate: racks pile up, clean glasses run out, and someone ends up at the three-compartment sink. Hospital, campus and government kitchens often have their own vendor rules, so tell us about badging, parking and paperwork when you book.
Hot-water sanitizing versus chemical sanitizing
A high-temp Hobart sanitizes with a final rinse at a very high temperature, supplied by a booster heater inside the machine or mounted beside it. A low-temp machine sanitizes with a chemical injected by a dispenser. The two kinds break in different ways. When a high-temp unit can't get its final rinse hot enough, look at the booster: its element, its thermostat, a coat of scale, or incoming water that arrives too cool to boost. When a low-temp unit fails its sanitizer strip test, the chemical supply, the feed pump or its tubing is the more likely cause.
Scale and food soil cause a large share of breakdowns. Deliming on the interval your manual sets, and emptying the scrap baskets and strainers every shift, prevents many calls.
Before, during and after the repair
Tell us your hours when you book so, where the fault allows, the work can fit around service. If the machine can't sanitize, stop using it and wash by hand in the three-compartment sink, following county health rules, until it's repaired. When a part isn't on hand, you'll hear what failed, how long the part should take, and whether it's safe to keep running the machine until it arrives, along with any maintenance change that would keep the same failure from coming back.
Hobart, product by product
- Dishwashers: Hobart undercounter, door-type and rack conveyor dish machines, high-temp or chemical-sanitizing. Leaking pump seals, burned-out heaters, sticking rinse valves, door switch faults and scale problems are frequent repairs.
Getting Hobart parts
Hobart parts are sold through Hobart and through foodservice equipment parts distributors, and they are ordered by the model and serial number on the machine's data plate. Spray arms, seal kits, heaters, thermostats, rinse valves and door switches are everyday orders. For some older machines an equivalent part is the only option, and if so you'll hear that before it is installed.
Where we repair Hobart
In Montgomery County: Bethesda & Chevy Chase, Potomac and Silver Spring. In Prince George's County: College Park & Hyattsville. Book a Hobart repair or call us.
Hobart Repair Questions
The questions that come up most often. Anything not covered here, ask us when you call, or add it to the booking form's notes field.
Have a different question?
Tell us what make it is and what's going wrong. A few things can be settled over the phone, and anything else gets looked at during the visit.
Make sure the building's hot water supply is on and up to the temperature your manual specifies, since a booster can only add so much. Check that the booster's breaker hasn't tripped. If both are fine, a booster element, thermostat or scale buildup is likely, and the machine shouldn't be used for sanitizing until it's fixed.
Yes. We diagnose the machine's wash, fill, drain and rinse functions, and we'll tell you if the problem sits with the chemical feed. Give us your supplier's contact so the two of us can sort out where one job ends and the other begins.
The model and serial number from the data plate, whether it's high-temp or chemical, any error message on the display, and what happened just before it stopped. A photo of the display and the data plate saves time.