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Hobart Appliance Repair in Tampa
Independent service for Hobart undercounter, door-type and conveyor dish machines in Tampa Bay restaurant, bar and institutional kitchens.
Booking online? The Hobart's model tag in the notes helps us line up the right part.
Two short steps: what needs fixing and where, then your contact details. We get back to you to set a time.
Makes we work on
Hobart Service for Houses, Condos and Rentals
Hobart, founded in Troy, Ohio, belongs to Illinois Tool Works' food equipment group and makes mixers, slicers and scales along with the dish machines we work on. We have no relationship with Hobart or with Hobart Service, ITW's own service arm. A machine under factory warranty or a service agreement should go through that channel first. Otherwise a technician comes to the dish room, pins down the fault, explains it and prices the job, and nothing starts without your OK.
How a Repair Visit Works
Book the Visit
Tell us the appliance, its maker and the symptom. A photo of the model plate saves a step.
Find the Fault
At your place the technician checks the unit and its outlet, water supply, drain or vent to find the fault.
Your Go-Ahead
We explain what failed and quote the repair. Nothing is done until you agree to the price.
Fixed and Verified
After the repair we test a full cycle and check for leaks, noise or codes before we leave.
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Which Hobart Appliance Needs Work?
Sizes of Hobart dish machine
At the small end, LXe-series undercounters handle a bar's glassware or a café's plates one rack at a time from under a counter. Door-type machines, the AM series, take a rack slid in from a dish table and finish a cycle in about a minute. Conveyor machines like the CL series pull racks through continuously, and the largest kitchens run flight-type machines with no racks at all.
Restaurants along the Riverwalk and in Ybor City, hotel banquet kitchens and the cafeterias at hospitals and schools around the area all depend on machines like these from open to close.
Hot rinse or chemical rinse
Heat-sanitizing Hobarts finish each cycle with scalding rinse water brought up to temperature by a booster, built in on some models and a separate floor unit on others. Chemical-sanitizing models rely on a dispenser feeding chlorine or a similar sanitizer. The two go wrong in different places. If a heat machine's rinse gauge keeps reading low, the booster element, its thermostat, a crust of scale on the element or lukewarm supply water are where we look. If a chemical machine's test strip comes up short, the dispenser and its lines are the likelier problem.
Mineral crust builds on elements, rinse nozzles and tank walls, while scraps clog strainers and arms. Delime on the interval in the manual and empty the scrap baskets every shift, and many breakdowns never happen.
Keeping the line moving
Tell us your hours and your rush periods when you call, and where the fault allows, the visit lands between services. Until the machine reaches proper sanitizing temperature or concentration again, take it out of use and run the three-compartment sink the way the food code requires.
If the part isn't on the truck, we tell you what failed, roughly when the part will arrive, and whether the machine can safely run in the meantime.
What you get afterward
You'll hear what broke, why it broke and what routine would stop it from happening again, whether that's deliming more often, pulling wash arms weekly or checking the chemical supply. It belongs in your maintenance log, and it's what keeps a one-time repair from turning into a monthly one.
Hobart appliance lines
- Dishwashers: LXe undercounters, AM door-type units, CL conveyors and flight machines, heat- or chemical-sanitizing. Usual work: wash pumps and seals, boosters, rinse solenoids, door switches and scale damage.
Hobart parts and sourcing
We order Hobart parts from Hobart and from commercial kitchen parts distributors, using the model and serial number stamped on the machine's data plate. Arms, pump seals, elements, thermostats, solenoids and door switches are all routine items. Some components for older machines now exist only as equivalents, and we'll tell you whenever that's what goes in.
Hobart visits are booked across Tampa and the wider Tampa Bay area; the list of areas and ZIP codes shows whether your street is covered.
Hobart Repair FAQ
What to expect, in brief. Anything specific to your appliance or your building is welcome in the booking notes.
Didn't see your question?
Send us the make, the model tag and what the appliance is doing. Some problems can be narrowed down before anyone drives over; most need hands on the machine.
On a high-temp machine: a failed booster element or thermostat, scale insulating the element, or incoming water that isn't hot enough to start with. We measure the incoming water and the booster before replacing parts, since each cause has a different fix.
Yes. Because they sanitize chemically, the dispenser, its pumps and the tubing are as important as the machine itself. We check how the machine washes, how it rinses and whether chemical is reaching it. If a chemical vendor services your dispenser, give us their name, because they may need to make the adjustment.
Yes, following the facility's vendor and access rules. Let us know about check-in, badging, parking and any paperwork when you book so the technician gets to the machine without delay.