Restaurant & Commercial Appraisals
Commercial kitchen, refrigeration, and hospitality equipment.
Equipment assignments supported by strong documentation — data plates, service records, photographs — can be completed as desk appraisals anywhere in the world. Where physical inspection materially affects the conclusion, on-site work is performed throughout Arizona.
What drives the number
Restaurant equipment loses value sharply once removed from a working kitchen, and lease assignment or hood configuration often matters more than the equipment itself. An honest appraisal accounts for that rather than pricing from a catalog.
Commonly appraised
- Commercial cooking and ranges
- Walk-in and reach-in refrigeration
- Ventilation hoods and fire suppression
- Bar and beverage systems
- Smallwares and service equipment
- Full restaurant build-outs
What we'll need from you
- Equipment list with make, model, and approximate age
- Whether currently installed and operating
- Photographs of the line, refrigeration, and hood system
- Lease status and whether equipment conveys
- Any service or health inspection records
Going-concern versus liquidation makes an enormous difference here. Tell us whether the space is operating, closing, or already closed.
| Scope | Typical fee |
|---|---|
| Single unit | $150 – $275 |
| 2–10 units | $225 – $350 |
| 11–50 units | $300 – $450 |
| Full facility inventory | quoted per engagement |
Related machinery & equipment assets
Common questions
Which value standard will you use?
It depends entirely on intended use. Fair market value, orderly liquidation value, forced liquidation value, and fair value in continued use produce very different numbers from the same asset. Selecting the wrong one is the single most common defect we see in equipment appraisals prepared elsewhere.
Can this be done without an on-site visit?
Often, yes. Where documentation is strong — data plates, service records, clear photographs — equipment can be appraised as a desk assignment anywhere in the world. Where condition or installation materially drives value, on-site inspection is performed throughout Arizona.
Can you appraise an entire facility?
Yes. Full inventories are quoted per assignment rather than per unit, and prior experience includes manufacturing plants, medical facilities, and municipal fleets.
Do you have specific equipment experience?
Yes — including machinery and equipment valuation work with B. Riley Advisory Services, and hands-on inventory and valuation of medical imaging, farm, and construction assets.
Ready for a number you can defend?
Tell us what you have and what it's for. You get a fixed written quote — never an hourly meter, never a sales call.
What the work actually looks like
Real assignments, client details removed — what each engagement actually turned on, rather than how it felt.
A house, a workshop of machine tools, a forty-year firearms collection and a stake in the family company — four disciplines that three appraisers had only partly covered. One engagement, one effective date, one set of assumptions.
A donation the regulations would have aggregated past the appraisal threshold, which the donor had assessed item by item. One qualified appraisal covering the group, itemized, signed inside the window the regulations allow.
An opposing report whose number was not obviously wrong — which is what made it dangerous. It failed on its own certification, and was answered section by section with an independent valuation to the correct definition of value.