I am looking at the instructions provided by Dacor, a premiun brand of refrigerator. Their sheet states "Your Dacor Built-in refrigerator is equipped with a .... power cord, which must be plugged into a 3-prong grounding type non-GFCI wall receptacle."
Reno, this has no bearing on any article in the NEC. It is very simple, this particular brand of refrigerator can not be used in a commercial kitchen, there is no conflict at all.
When they get to the point they want it to work in NEC compliant commercial kitchens they will remove that wording from the instructions and make the units work with Class A GFCI's
Roger
