diff --git a/bench/production_setup.py b/bench/production_setup.py
index dd87563e..c8a8a5cd 100644
--- a/bench/production_setup.py
+++ b/bench/production_setup.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from .utils import get_program, exec_cmd, get_cmd_output, fix_prod_setup_perms
+from .utils import get_program, exec_cmd, get_cmd_output, fix_prod_setup_perms, get_config
 from .config import generate_nginx_config, generate_supervisor_config
 from jinja2 import Environment, PackageLoader
 import os
@@ -6,11 +6,20 @@ import shutil
 
 def restart_service(service):
 	if os.path.basename(get_program(['systemctl']) or '') == 'systemctl' and is_running_systemd():
-		exec_cmd("{prog} restart {service}".format(prog='systemctl', service=service))
+		exec_cmd("{service_manager} restart {service}".format(service_manager='systemctl', service=service))
 	elif os.path.basename(get_program(['service']) or '') == 'service':
-		exec_cmd("{prog} {service} restart ".format(prog='service', service=service))
+		exec_cmd("{service_manager} {service} restart ".format(service_manager='service', service=service))
 	else:
-		raise Exception, 'No service manager found'
+		# look for 'service_manager' and 'service_manager_command' in config.json
+		config = get_config()
+		service_manager = config.get("service_manager")
+		if service_manager:
+			service_manager_command = (config.get("service_manager_command")
+				or "{service_manager} restart {service}").format(service_manager=service_manager, service=service)
+			exec_cmd(service_manager_command)
+
+		else:
+			raise Exception, 'No service manager found'
 
 def get_supervisor_confdir():
 	possiblities = ('/etc/supervisor/conf.d', '/etc/supervisor.d/', '/etc/supervisord/conf.d', '/etc/supervisord.d')
@@ -28,7 +37,7 @@ def remove_default_nginx_configs():
 
 def is_centos7():
 	return os.path.exists('/etc/redhat-release') and get_cmd_output("cat /etc/redhat-release | sed 's/Linux\ //g' | cut -d' ' -f3 | cut -d. -f1").strip() == '7'
-			
+
 def is_running_systemd():
 	with open('/proc/1/comm') as f:
 		comm = f.read().strip()