Retail Food Equipment (Lobalzo)

Akron headquarters of a family business trading since 1954. H.C. Lobalzo & Sons and Consolidated Food Equipment Distributors have united under one name, Retail Food Equipment & Service, and now trade from a single website; the Lobalzo name continues as a trading name. An exclusive Hobart partner for more than 50 years, with technicians CFESA-certified and trained across almost every brand, doing authorised warranty work as well as non-warranty repairs and maintenance. Strong on the retail food side specifically: mixers, slicers, meat saws, grinders and tenderisers, scales, rotisseries, pressure fryers, convection ovens and steamers, plus deli and meat cases and walk-in coolers, serving butchers, grocery delis, bakeries and hot food counters as well as restaurants. Technicians carry a large parts and installation inventory on their trucks. They state cover 24/7 year-round and separately advertise evening service, and claim labour and travel rates consistently lower than competitors, which is an unusually specific thing to put in writing. Coverage spans greater New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

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States cover 24/7 year-round and separately advertises evening service. Untested.

States labour and travel rates lower than competitors

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Fault code tables for makes this company services. Write the code down before clearing it; it is the most useful thing you can give a technician on the phone.

• Hobart LXi/AM15 door dish machines (18 codes)
• Traulsen Intela-Traul reach-ins (14 codes)
• Baxter OV500 rotating rack ovens (11 codes)
• Gaylord CG3-UVi water-wash ventilators (11 codes)
• Stero SD3 door-type dish machines (10 codes)
• Berkel X13 slicers (10 codes)
• Vulcan VK/TR and ER/GR fryers (9 codes)

What these repairs typically cost, so you can judge whether a quote is in the right region before approving it.

• What oven repairs cost
• Slicer and mixer repair costs
• What walk-in repairs cost

Diagnostic guides for the equipment this company services. Some faults have a check you can do yourself before paying for a call-out.

• Oven not heating
• Fryer not heating
• Pilot light keeps going out
• Hood cleaning schedule (NFPA 96)

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