There are kitchens in this county running Hobart mixers older than the building's roof, and running them hard. That's not nostalgia — it's engineering. Hobart machines were designed in an era when "commercial" meant rebuildable, and parts support stretches back decades. Our job is simple: keep that engineering earning its keep.
The Hobart equipment on our trucks' route sheets
- Planetary mixers — the classic A200 and A120 bench units, H600 and M802 floor machines, and the modern Legacy HL series (HL600 and kin). Pizzerias, bakeries and club kitchens live on these.
- AM-series door dishwashers — the AM15 and AM16 are the default door machine of the local dish pit, plus Hobart conveyors in banquet operations.
- Slicers — 2000/3000-series units in every serious deli, plus grinders and meat saws in club butcher rooms.
How Hobarts fail — and why it's good news
Mixers: transmissions announce their wear — grinding at speed under dough load, clutches slipping on stiff batches, speed selectors popping out of gear, bowl lifts sagging until beater meets bowl. Daily pizza dough on an undersized machine accelerates all of it. The good news: every one of those is a rebuildable assembly, not a death sentence. A transmission rebuild returns a decades-old Hobart to duty for a fraction of replacement cost.
AM-series dish machines: wash and rinse arm bearings, fill valves, door springs, and — in our hard water — scale on elements and rinse jets. These machines delime beautifully and run for decades when someone actually does it; that's a standing item on our maintenance plans.
Slicers: glazed sharpener stones (the blade gets polished, not sharpened), carriage bearing drag, and hub wear. Slicer service is safety service — dull blades make staff press harder, and guards must stay right.
Parts: Hobart's quiet superpower
Parts availability for Hobart is the best in the industry, including for machines built when your grandparents were dating. That single fact tilts nearly every repair-versus-replace decision toward repair: when a transmission gear for a 1970s mixer ships this week, the honest answer is almost never "buy a new machine." Where we quote aftermarket versus genuine parts, we tell you which and why.
Maintenance notes for Hobart owners
- Check planetary-mixer gear oil on schedule; a dry gearbox turns a $0 check into a four-figure rebuild.
- Don't shift speeds under power — most selector wear is technique, and it's free to fix.
- Delime AM-series machines on a hard-water cadence, not the manual's soft-water optimism.
- Have slicer sharpener stones dressed professionally; a glazed stone ruins blades slowly and invisibly.
From Lake Worth Beach bakeries to Boca banquet pits, if it says Hobart on the badge, we service it. One number: (561) 695-9808.
Palm Beach Restaurant Repair is an independent service company. We repair and maintain Hobart equipment but are not an authorized dealer for, or affiliated with, Hobart.