Pitco's engineering philosophy is visible the moment you pull a panel: keep it simple, make it serviceable. Classic Pitco gas tanks run millivolt systems that need no electricity at all — a pilot, a thermopile, a gas valve and a thermostat — which means when they fail, they fail in an order a good tech can walk in minutes. It's the fryer we can most often fix in one visit.
The Pitco range in county kitchens
- 35C+ and 40C+ economy tanks — the standalone fryers in half the small kitchens we serve.
- SG-series — the heavier Solstice-generation gas tanks.
- Solstice and Solstice Supreme banks — multi-tank batteries with built-in filtration running high-volume fry programs.
The diagnostic order that saves you money
Pilot won't stay lit? On a millivolt Pitco the order is thermopile first, pilot orifice second, gas valve last — the thermopile is the cheap, common culprit, and a tech who starts at the gas valve is spending your money backwards. High-limit tripping? The limit is doing its one job; the question is why — oil level, thermostat runaway, or a tired limit — and we answer it rather than resetting and leaving. (The taped-down high-limit we occasionally find gets removed from service on the spot; that's a grease fire on layaway.) Slow recovery? Thermostat drift, starved burners, or oil past its life — measured, not guessed.
Filtration systems: only savings when they run
Solstice filtration earns its price in oil savings — until a pump loses prime, a line clogs with breading sludge, or an o-ring tears and the system quietly stops filtering. Crews rarely report it ("we just skip the filter cycle") and oil cost creeps up for months. We service pumps, lines, seals and actuators, and we'll audit whether the filter program is actually being run — awkward question, real money.
The frypot line
Everything bolted to a Pitco is repairable economics: valves, thermopiles, limits, thermostats, burners, filtration. The tank itself is the line — a weeping weld or pinholed frypot is structural, and welding frypots is false economy we don't sell. Pitco tanks are tough and rarely get there without years of thermal abuse, but when one does, we say so plainly and help you spec and install the successor.
Boring fryers are profitable fryers
Boil-outs on schedule, thermostat calibration checked against a probe, thermopile output measured before season instead of during it, filtration serviced so the oil program holds — the standard Pitco module in our maintenance plans. Wellington's caterers and the fry stations of West Palm run whole seasons on that routine. Parts availability: excellent and fast, every generation. One number: (561) 695-9808.
Palm Beach Restaurant Repair is an independent service company. We repair and maintain Pitco equipment but are not an authorized dealer for, or affiliated with, Pitco.