Three Café refrigerators. Three different endings.
These three Café refrigerators came from Agoura Hills, Pasadena and Sunland, and each had a written technician note. One needed a part, one needed sealing parts and an honest warning, and one needed no part at all. Bills are the full invoice, diagnostic included, to the nearest $5.
Agoura Hills · October 2025
Freezer fan dead, coil buried in frost
Booked as
“GE Cafe refrigerator not cooling”
The fridge
A stainless French-door with a bottom freezer, model CFCP1NIZC.
What we found
The freezer’s evaporator fan motor had failed. That fan pushes cold air into the fresh-food side, so with it stopped the fridge stopped cooling. With the freezer cover off, the coil behind the fan was thick with frost.
What we did
Replaced the evaporator fan motor. Booked and finished on the same day, October 4.
Bill
About $445
The Agoura Hills refrigerator, built into a white cabinet surround.Freezer cover off: the evaporator coil under a thick layer of white frost.The evaporator fan motor bracket and blue fan hub, with the frosted coil behind them.
Pasadena · October 2025 & January 2026
Condensation: new seals, and no promise it would stop
Booked as
“GE CAFE refrigerator (need coil cleaning) and makes hamming nose”
The fridge
A Café bottom-freezer French-door, model CYE22TP3MBD1.
First visit
Booked in October 2025 for a coil cleaning and a humming noise; the bill was $350. That visit has no written note, so we can’t tell you more about it.
Second visit
A second visit was opened in mid-January 2026 under the same booking text. This time our technician’s note is about condensation: he proposed replacing the sealing parts, the collar ports and their port gaskets, with manufacturer-approved parts, and the job was completed on February 4.
The warning
His note says new seals may improve things, but that on some GE designs a complete end to the condensation can’t be guaranteed. That warning was part of the proposal the customer saw, and it belongs here too.
Bill
About $545 for the second visit
Sunland · September 2026
Fresh food at 50°F, and nothing broken
Booked as
“GE Cafe Refrigerator”
The fridge
A matte-white Café French-door, model CYE22TP4MLW2.
What we measured
Our infrared thermometer read 50.5°F in the fresh-food section, with a maximum of 53°F. The freezer read about 20°F. Behind the bottom panel, the condenser fan and coil were caked in grey dust and lint.
What we did
Cleaned the condenser coils and ran the diagnostics. No faults and no error codes came up at the visit. The note gives a door left open as a possible cause. No parts were replaced; booked and finished on September 11.
Bill
$250
Infrared thermometer aimed into the fresh-food section: 50.5°F, maximum 53.0°F.Bottom cover off: the condenser fan shroud and coil coated in dust and lint, before the cleaning.
Side by side: a failed motor replaced, seals replaced with a stated limit, and a cleaning with no fault found. That spread is why a diagnosis comes before any part order on a Café, and why sometimes the diagnosis is most of the job.
Café fridge warm, sweating or icing up?
The visit starts with an $85 diagnostic, credited to the bill if you go ahead. You see a written estimate before we order or fit anything.
A top oven that wouldn’t heat, fixed on a Saturday evening
Thousand Oaks · February 2025 · bill $280
“Ge Cafe double oven top one is not heating properly”
The call came in on Saturday, February 8, and the job was closed that same evening. Our file for this one has no technician note and no photos. What happened is in the customer’s own Google review, posted the next day: the igniter for the top oven had gone out, and it was fixed on the spot. The full review is further down this page.
Photos, but no written note
A leaking Café dishwasher in Los Angeles
Los Angeles · August 2026 · bill about $330
“Dishwasher GE Cafe - leaks (plumber checked there is an issue within dishwasher)”
Before we were called, a plumber had checked and found the problem was inside the dishwasher. The dishwasher was a Café CDWT980. We were there on August 20 and again on August 21, when the job was completed. The technician’s written note for this job is blank, so the photos below are the record, captioned only with what they show.
The dishwasher, stainless with a bar handle, under the counter.Day one: brown-black residue down the front corner seam of the tub.Day two: a water inlet valve out of the machine, yellow body, brass elbow, corroded bracket.Day two, under the tub: a white-bodied valve labelled 165D7414G003 on the braided supply line.
Woodland Hills, September 2026: the Café slide-in gas range with two ovens, cooktop lined with foil.
A bottom oven stuck at 100°F in Woodland Hills
A CGS990-series range, booked on September 10 as “bottom only reach 100 F” and completed on September 14 for about $455. Here too the written note is blank and there is no parts record, so we don’t know which part was at fault and won’t guess.
Before you text us a photo of the label
A model number helps us bring the right part on the first trip. On three of the Café refrigerators we photographed, a Connected Appliance sticker printed with a Wi-Fi network name and password sat next to the model and serial label. Cover or crop that sticker before you send the picture to anyone, us included.
Café model numbers from our own job photos:
CFCP1NIZCCYE22TP3MBD1CYE22TP4MLW2CVE28DP2NBS1CDWT980R10SSCGS990 series
A Café owner on Google
The Thousand Oaks oven, in the owner’s words.
“Great experience! The ignitor for the top part of Café Appliances roll-in- dual oven went out and they came out on a Saturday evening and were able to fix it on the spot and he even cleaned it!! The technician, David was wonderful and so sweet. Oven works perfectly again. Thank you A&Y Appliances!”
Lauren C. · Google, 5 stars · Café double oven, Thousand Oaks, February 2025
The terms
What you can count on.
$85 diagnostic, credited to the repair
If you decide not to go ahead, the diagnostic is all you pay for.
A written estimate first
Nothing is ordered or installed until you have approved the price.
OEM parts, with warranty
1 year on parts and 30 days on labor. Where a fix may only reduce a problem, like the Pasadena condensation, we say so up front.
BBB A+ · California BEAR #49435
An independent repair company since 2012. Office: Suite 248, 201 N. Brand Blvd, Glendale.
Repairs only
We don’t install new appliances, and we don’t work on restaurant kitchen equipment.
