Café cooking appliances
Professional, slide-in and freestanding ranges use different possible positions; double-oven ranges can put the label behind the lower door. Cooktops, wall ovens, microwaves and ventilation have their own guide sections.
Read the plate. Check the evidence.
Café Serial Number Lookup, Appliance Age & Model Labels
Find Café serial-date interpretations and the model/serial label location for the actual kitchen appliance type.
Browse Cafe manuals and guides →Find the serial or date-code label ↓
Check a documented system
What’s on the rating plate?
Café appliances using the dedicated manufacturer month/year chart; keep the full model and serial separate.
Explore a sourced example:
Choose the equipment family
Café serial numbers by device type
Use the complete equipment label, its separate model number and the documented product family. A repeating date code does not establish the model, purchase date, installation date or warranty entitlement.
Café refrigeration and icemakers
Refrigerators, wine/beverage centers, undercounter drawers and icemakers have separate label locations. Keep the complete model from the actual plate for the correct manual.
Café dishwashers
Café places the possible label at the left-front inner edge, visible with the door open. Use its dedicated date-code chart for supported household appliances; model and serial remain separate fields.
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Compare the source examples
Source examples and repeating date codes.
The serial-only check retains every supported year. The source-context check also enters the photographed model and the decade identified by the source. Those are separate clues: neither the model nor the source’s chosen year is uniquely encoded in these serials.
Café appliance date-prefix explanation
GA · The manufacturer illustrates April 2001 or 2013 or 2025. The code repeats; this date is separate example context.
Café appliance date-prefix explanation
AD · The manufacturer illustrates January 2002 or 2014 or 2026. The code repeats; this date is separate example context.
Read the label on your product
Where to find the numbers.
Find the label for the actual Café cooking, refrigeration or dishwasher type. Newer tags may include a QR code linking to product information. The model is a separate field; an illustrative sample or QR code does not establish an individual unit’s manufacture date.
Choose your product type to see its label locations. An identification example may illustrate the fields without containing a valid date code.
Cooking (7)
Professional ranges
- Look for
- Model number and serial number
- Label location
- Below the controls, visible with the oven door open. Behind the left knob.
- Format / what to enter
- Copy the complete serial separately from the model, including letters and leading zeros.
Slide-in ranges
- Look for
- Model number and serial number
- Label location
- Below the controls or on the front door frame; on double ovens, use the lower door.
- Format / what to enter
- Copy the complete serial separately from the model, including letters and leading zeros.
Freestanding ranges
- Look for
- Model number and serial number
- Label location
- Lift-up strips behind the backguard, or the front frame; double ovens use the lower door.
- Format / what to enter
- Copy the complete serial separately from the model, including letters and leading zeros.
Cooktops and rangetops
- Look for
- Model number and serial number
- Label location
- Bottom center; rangetops may also have a label behind the left knob.
- Format / what to enter
- Copy the complete serial separately from the model, including letters and leading zeros.
Wall ovens
- Look for
- Model number and serial number
- Label location
- Upper-left vertical trim, visible with the door open.
- Format / what to enter
- Copy the complete serial separately from the model, including letters and leading zeros.
Microwaves
- Look for
- Model number and serial number
- Label location
- Lower-left inner edge, visible with the door open.
- Format / what to enter
- Copy the complete serial separately from the model, including letters and leading zeros.
Ventilation
- Look for
- Model number and serial number
- Label location
- Inner hood walls behind the filters.
- Format / what to enter
- Copy the complete serial separately from the model, including letters and leading zeros.
Refrigeration (4)
Refrigerators
- Look for
- Model number and serial number
- Label location
- Upper-left or upper-right fresh-food wall.
- Format / what to enter
- Copy the complete serial separately from the model, including letters and leading zeros.
Wine and beverage centers
- Look for
- Model number and serial number
- Label location
- Upper-left interior wall.
- Format / what to enter
- Copy the complete serial separately from the model, including letters and leading zeros.
Undercounter refrigerators
- Look for
- Model number and serial number
- Label location
- Outer-left side of the upper drawer.
- Format / what to enter
- Copy the complete serial separately from the model, including letters and leading zeros.
Icemakers
- Look for
- Model number and serial number
- Label location
- Left side of the ice-compartment ceiling.
- Format / what to enter
- Copy the complete serial separately from the model, including letters and leading zeros.
Cleaning (1)
Dishwashers
- Look for
- Model number and serial number
- Label location
- Left front inner edge with the door open.
- Format / what to enter
- Copy the complete serial separately from the model, including letters and leading zeros.
Scope matters
Supported formats
and historical limits.
- Serial date candidates do not identify the complete model, configuration or installation date.
- Two-letter date prefixes such as GA are shared by many units. Select the dedicated prefix option explicitly; a prefix does not replace the complete serial or model.
- A separately entered, exactly verified model can provide production-window context. It does not turn the serial into a model or guarantee the manufacture date of every engineering revision.
Research reviewed October 16, 2026. This independent tool applies published rules and retains unresolved years and model candidates.
Source references
- Café Appliances manufacture-date chart ↗ · manufacturer
- Café official manufacture-date chart; literal year and month entries ↗ · manufacturer date chart
Café manufacturer month/year chart
Café appliances covered by GE’s dedicated Café chart.
Use the candidate years published by Café. A printed manual date or model context may distinguish repeated year letters; serial alone does not.
Café two-letter date prefix only (confirm system)
Only the explicitly selected, confirmed Café appliance date-prefix system. This is not a complete serial lookup.
The manufacturer uses two-letter examples such as GA to explain repeating manufacture dates. Preserve all literal chart years; a two-letter prefix is shared by many units and cannot establish a unique product, full model, factory or warranty.
Choose this option only when entering the two leading date letters from a confirmed Café appliance label. These letters are a partial date prefix, not the unique serial or a model identifier.
Reading your result
Cafe lookup questions
Why does the year code match more than one year?
Some systems reuse letters or only encode the last one or two year digits. Every supported interpretation is retained. A decade supplied from reliable records can narrow the reading; the tool does not automatically pick the newest year.
Does the serial identify my exact model?
Usually the model is a separate plate field. Where published serial ranges actually identify a model, the result shows model candidates and links to their manuals. Overlapping ranges remain ambiguous.
Can I share the result?
After a lookup, the address includes the serial in a fragment beginning with #serial=. Use “Copy share link” to share the serial and selected context. Opening the link runs the same lookup. The fragment is not a query-string result page.