Hobart Commercial Repair — South Florida
AM, CL and FT ware-washing plus A-200 mixers and 1612/2812 slicers — restaurants, hotels and high-volume kitchens.
About Hobart
Hobart Corporation is the dominant North-American manufacturer of commercial dishwashers, planetary mixers and food slicers, building equipment used in the back-of-house of essentially every full-service restaurant, hotel and institutional kitchen on the continent. The brand is split between two product families that Berne services daily: ware-washing — undercounter, door-type, conveyor and flight-type dishmachines — and bakery/deli equipment, including the legacy A-200 20-quart mixer and the 1612/2812 manual & automatic slicer lines. Hobart machines are built to last twenty-plus years, which is exactly why an aging South Florida fleet generates so many repair calls.
Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach — same-day emergency dispatch for Hobart commercial accounts.
- Same-day dispatch
- COI & W-9 on file
- 4.79 / 871 reviews
Hobart equipment we service
Model series and platforms we cover across South Florida commercial accounts.
Door-type high-temp sanitizing dishwashers — restaurants, bars, coffee shops. The AM-15VL adds the ventless heat-recovery hood; AM-15VLT is the tall variant for sheet pans. Booster element and wash-arm bearing are the standard South Florida service tickets.
AM-15F is the door-type with a built-in booster, AM-15T-2 the dual-rinse tall version. Common in hotel BOH and country-club kitchens. Drain pump and final-rinse solenoid lead the failure list.
Successor to the AM-15 platform with smarter controls and the Advanced Sanitation rinse — same form factor, same install footprint, OEM parts now stocked for both generations.
Compact 24" undercounter dishwashers — bakeries, cafes, small kitchens. Hot-water and chemical-sanitizing variants. Drain pump impeller and wash motor capacitor are the truck-stock failures.
Glass-washing variants of the LX platform — bar and lounge installs. Soft-spray wash arms with low-pressure pumps; bearing service is the recurring call.
Conveyor (rack) ware-washers — high-volume restaurants, banquet halls and hotel commissaries pushing 200+ racks per hour. The eN-series adds the energy-recovery option. Curtain wear and conveyor drive bearing are the workhorse repairs.
Mid-volume conveyor ware-washers — schools, casino BOH, large hotel banquet kitchens. Booster heater, prewash pump and pawl-bar drive lead the service log.
Heavy-duty conveyor washers for the largest banquet and institutional installs. Three-tank designs, separate booster, automated curtain assemblies — full PM cycle work for Berne's PM accounts.
Flight-type (belt) ware-washers — hospitals, casino BOH, university dining, prison kitchens. Continuous belt design at 6000+ dishes/hr. PRW prewash and conveyor chain are the high-wear components.
Hobart's hood-type door machines on European-style frames — used in chef-driven independents and pizza concepts. Door cable, microswitch and rinse-arm jet are standard truck-stock.
20-quart bench mixer — pizzerias, bakeries, prep kitchens. Belt drive, planetary action, gearbox parts still field-serviceable. The A-200T is the timed variant.
12 and 20-quart Legacy+ bench-model planetary mixers — the modern A-200 line. Bowl-lift handle, agitator, drive belt and gearbox bearings are the recurring repairs.
30, 40 and 60-quart floor mixers — pizzerias, bagel shops and high-volume bakeries. HL662 is the pizza-spec variant with #12 hub. Bowl-lift cable and planetary clutch see the most calls.
80 and 140-quart floor-model planetary mixers for industrial bakeries and commissary kitchens. Three-phase drive motor, planetary gearbox and bowl-truck wheel assemblies are the heavy repairs.
Manual gravity-feed slicers — delis, sandwich shops, grocery service deli. Carriage tracking, blade tension and sharpener stone alignment dominate the call list.
Automatic gravity-feed slicers with motorized carriage. Carriage drive motor, transmission and stroke-end switch are the wear points; we stock the gear-drive rebuild kit.
Compact entry-level and premium-tier slicers — sandwich shops, grocery prep, fine-dining cold lines. Blade ring, ring guard and sharpener assembly are the standard service items.
Hobart HCM-450 vertical cutter mixer and the classic 84186 Buffalo chopper — bowl bearing, knife shaft seal and motor brake make the recurring repair list.
Common Hobart failure modes we repair
What our technicians see on Hobart equipment in South Florida — documented from real service tickets, not a brochure.
Top and bottom spray arms stop rotating. Most often the upper hub bearing fails from years of detergent chemistry — bearings dry out, arms wobble, then seize. Glasses come out spotted, plates greasy. We rebuild the arm assemblies and verify rotation under load.
Final-rinse temperature can’t hit the 180°F sanitizing minimum. Either the booster element is scaled and burning out, or the high-limit thermostat is tripping early. In South Florida tap water the booster sees the heaviest mineral load and is almost always the first failure point on a five-year-old AM-15.
Tank doesn’t drain between cycles. Pump impeller jammed with broken glass shards or labels from bottle washing. Standard kitchen complaint that masquerades as a control-board failure.
On the legacy A-200 the planetary gearbox oil dries out and pinion gears chip. Symptom: noisy mixing under dough load, dough hook wobbling. Requires drain, inspect, and gear or bearing replacement — a job that has to be done before the cluster destroys itself.
Carriage drift on automatic slicers means slice thickness wanders. Blade sharpener stones bind because deli wrap residue gums them up. Standard cleaning + carriage adjustment restores spec.
Chemical pumps lose prime when supply containers run dry. Tubing perishes, check valves clog. Dishes come out filmed or under-sanitized. Field replaceable; we keep peristaltic heads on the truck.
Single-phase wash motors on AM and LXe models use a run capacitor that fails in Florida humidity. Motor hums but doesn’t start, breaker trips after a few seconds. Capacitor swap, clamp-meter verify.
Why Berne services Hobart equipment
Berne Commercial Repair has serviced Hobart equipment across South Florida for eleven years, with eighteen field technicians on the bench and a parts network that includes OEM Hobart distribution. We carry an AggregateRating of 4.79 across 871 reviews, hold full general-liability and workers-comp coverage, and supply COI on request for property managers and franchise compliance teams. Hobart repairs go in with OEM wash arms, booster elements and gearbox kits — the rebuild lasts as long as the machine.
Berne technicians who run Hobart routes
These are the techs on the roster who carry Hobart factory training, model-specific parts on the truck, and the diagnostic discipline Hobart commercial equipment rewards.
Industries where Hobart is found
Hobart equipment is standard in the operations we cover most heavily across South Florida.
Walk-ins, ranges, fryers, hoods, ice, espresso — one dispatch, same day.
OPL laundry, banquet kitchens, ice rooms, breakfast bars — one vendor, every floor.
Display cases, walk-ins, deli, refrigeration racks, ice machines — store-level coverage.
K-12 cafeterias, university dining, dish machines, walk-ins, bulk milk — district-friendly dispatch.
Service area
Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach — same-day dispatch on Hobart ware-washing failures because a dead dishmachine shuts the floor. Coverage runs from Homestead to Jupiter, including Miami Beach, Aventura, Hallandale, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Delray and West Palm.
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Other commercial brands we service
KM stackable cubers, KMD modular, F801 flake and DCM cubelet machines — restaurants, healthcare, hotels.
Indigo NXT and NEO modular ice machines, ice-and-water dispensers and undercounter cubers — restaurants, hotels, hospitals.
T-series reach-ins, TSSU/TWT prep tables and GDM glass-door merchandisers — restaurants, bars, c-stores and bakeries.
Garland G-series ranges, charbroilers, salamanders and Master cooking platforms — restaurant lines and steakhouse kitchens.