Inside This Week’s Restaurant Equipment Auction Market – 8 Upcoming Sales inc Rotary Rack Ovens, Commercial Refrigeration & Kenwood Mixers
This week we list 8 restaurant and catering equipment auctions across Australia. Including commercial kitchens, café fit-outs, food service equipment, and hospitality clearances.
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FAQ
Where does restaurant auction equipment come from?
Primarily business closures including restaurants, cafés, and catering companies that have wound up. Refurbishment projects, kitchen upgrades, and liquidations of food service distributors also contribute significant stock.
What equipment typically comes up?
Commercial ovens, fryers, grills, dishwashers, refrigeration, coffee machines, display cabinets, POS systems, benching, and racking. Complete kitchen fit-outs sometimes sell as a package; other times individual pieces are lotted separately.
Is secondhand commercial kitchen equipment worth buying?
Usually yes, commercial-grade equipment is built for heavy use and lasts far longer than domestic equivalents. A well-maintained commercial oven or fridge bought at a fraction of new cost is a sound investment for a small food business.
What should I check before bidding?
Test operation if possible during the inspection period. But in most cases it is not possible due tothe need for power or gas etc.
Trends & Insights
Victoria is carrying the heaviest lot count this week, with Lloyds Auctions listing 31 lots of commercial kitchen gear and outdoor furniture for its 27 October sale. The catalogue leans toward high-throughput pizza and holding equipment, headlined by a Turbochef HCC2020 high-speed conveyor oven and a Birko 1110103 bain marie, alongside bulk lots of metal folding outdoor settings and wire bar stools (Auction Finder, Oct 27). That sale sits within 13 nationwide restaurant equipment auctions flagged this week, so buyers chasing outdoor furniture or front-of-house stock have depth to work through.
Lloyds is also running a 10-lot NSW hospitality clear-out closing around late October, and the mix is pure cold-chain and display. Expect half-door and four-door stainless fridges, 1.2m and 1.8m cake display fridges, a 45kg/24h commercial ice machine and a multi-deck open display unit from a catering operator (Auction Finder, Oct 27). Grays Australia is testing the unreserved format in NSW, with conveyor pizza ovens, espresso machines, meat slicers, pizza prep benches and upright fridges out of Milperra closing in early periods (Grays Australia, Oct 28). Unreserved means the hammer decides, so inspect before you bid.
Western Australia is the busiest state for frequency. Ross’s Auctioneers has multiple online commercial kitchen and catering sales running through October out of Welshpool, with ISA gelato display cabinets, Convotherm combi ovens, Electrolux fryers, ice machines and planetary mixers on the block. Inspections are available and the buyer premium is 15% (auctions.com.au, Oct 20). Frequent small sales suit operators filling specific gaps rather than kitting out a whole site.
The forward calendar is where the bigger capital equipment sits. Mason Gray Strange has a hospitality liquidation and supplier surplus sale set for 17 November at Kilkenny in South Australia, on instructions from liquidators of Ondeen Trading Pty Ltd. The listing includes Rational, Convotherm and Tecnodom combi ovens, fryers, Thermaster display chillers and blast chillers, with a 16.5% buyer premium (Mason Gray Strange Auctioneers, Nov 17). Blast chillers rarely surface in volume, so that catalogue is worth a pre-inspection.
Watch for closing times on the Lloyds NSW and Grays Milperra sales in the next seven days, and register early for the Kilkenny liquidation if combi or blast chill equipment is on your shopping list.
Last updated: 2 Nov 2026
Rod’s Tips
Grays handles the most consistent volume of hospitality equipment in Australia. Their rolling online sales include single items and complete kitchen packages. Set up a saved search for your equipment categories to catch new lots as they list.
Complete café fit-outs can go for dramatically less than replacement cost. When a café closes, the operator often needs a quick exit. Buying the complete fit-out rather than individual pieces can deliver significant savings if you have a venue to fit it out.
Coffee machine lots need careful assessment. A commercial espresso machine is expensive to service. Check the brand’s service network before bidding — some imported machines have no local support. A cheap machine with no parts availability is an expensive paperweight.
Bring your own measurements. Commercial benching, fridges, and rack systems are site-specific. Know your kitchen dimensions before the auction — equipment that won’t fit is worth nothing to you regardless of price.
Freight costs. Don’t be afraid to look out of state by first checking in on couriers for an estimate. I purchased a commercial espresso machine and even with the freight from ACT to VIC is was a great deal landed at my doorstep. Be sure to get quotes from couriers with lift-gates to load and unload heavy goods.
Tasmania
New South Wales
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Hospitality, Catering & Events
More detail
This is a multi-lot online auction run by Lloyds Auctions, closing 3 November 2026. The catalogue leans heavily on hospitality and catering equipment, with the refrigeration side the standout: two half-door stainless units, two four-door reach-in fridges, and a pair of cake displays at 1.2m and 1.8m. A 45kg/24h commercial ice machine rounds out the cold storage.
Front-of-house is covered too, with multiple white pedestal dining tables among the lots. For anyone fitting out a cafe, function space, or restaurant, the mix of display, storage, and seating covers a fair bit of ground in one hit.
Lloyds runs this as a multi-category sale, so expect vehicles, jewellery, collectables, and general goods alongside the catering gear. Check each listing for condition and dimensions before bidding.
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Sydney Unreserved Catering Auction
Sydney Unreserved Catering Auction
National / Online
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Hospitality, Catering & Events
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This is a working-kitchen clearout rather than a mixed bag of odds and ends. The espresso side alone is worth a look: a Rancilio Classe 9 USB 2 is a serious two-group machine, and it sits alongside an Exquisite UBC330 three glass back bar cooler and a three door back bar display fridge, so a cafe or bar fit-out could be covered in a few bids.
On the cooking and cleaning side there’s a CookRite six burner gas range, a Zanussi commercial combi oven with stainless steel, a Washtech underbench dishwasher, a Classeq G400 glasswasher, a Roband food warmer display cabinet and a stainless steel refrigerated glass display case. Smallwares are covered too, with Dudson fine china dessert bowls and a stainless steel commercial work table.
Lloyds is running this as a multi-lot online auction, and the wider catalogue spans vehicles, jewellery, collectables, plant and equipment and general goods, so it pays to scan the full list rather than just the catering section. The Zebra ZXP Series ID card printer is the odd one out and may go cheap for that reason.
Victoria
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Hospitality, Catering & Events
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This is a solid spread of commercial catering equipment, the kind of gear that normally carries a hefty price tag new. The Winterhalter UF-XL pot washer is the headline lot for anyone setting up or upgrading a dish pit, while the Blue Seal gas range cooker and the double griddle cover the hot line.
Smaller items round out the sale: a WNS-G01 syrup dispensing machine, an electric warming pot, a Mercury four-burner gas barbecue and a Domain natural gas instantaneous water heater. Stainless steel benches in a couple of sizes, plus a two-piece sink bench, make up the fit-out basics.
Lloyds is running this as a multi-lot online auction closing 10 November 2026, alongside vehicles, jewellery, collectables and plant in the same catalogue. Check each listing for condition and dimensions before you bid.
South Australia
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