Thoroughly sanitizing your kitchen regularly is a good way of preventing food-borne illness and pest infestation. However, sometimes surface sanitation only is not enough to defend against pests; sometimes, it requires the maintenance and cleaning of the equipment working behind-the-scenes: namely, your food grease trap. Knowing the importance of warding off pests by regularly maintaining your grease trap is essential when it comes to operating a safe and successful kitchen. [Read more…]
OSHA Releases Grease Trap Hazard Prevention Bulletin
Grease traps can be hazardous if not appropriately maintained and secured. Harm can befall workers and patrons if they trip over or fall into a grease trap that’s not properly covered. There are even life-threatening repercussions linked to maintenance if the grease trap is entered into without essential safeguards in place. Since many establishments have grease traps – including restaurants, hotels, grocery stores, and food-processing plants – OSHA has released a grease trap hazard prevention bulletin in February of this year in hopes of preventing grease trap incidents. [Read more…]
The Winter and Your Restaurant: Dealing with Cold Grease Traps
Anyone who has refrigerated a greasy dish is all too familiar with how grease and the cold interact. And like with all things, the more you scale it up, the faster the transition from “nuisance” to “problem” will occur. For a restaurant’s grease trap – especially exterior and in-ground grease traps – this can turn a functioning and vital part of your restaurant into a problematic blockage. Today we’re going to look at how cold grease traps can give you problems and how to address them.
[Read more…]Dealing with Grease Sources Before They Hit Your Grease Trap
For our clients who are looking to reduce the number of grease trap problems, the risks of sewer overflows, and increased grease trap maintenance, we tell them to go after the source. For most clients – which are usually restaurants – they have multiple sources of wastewater that combine to feed into and through the grease trap. By changing what and how waste enters those sinks and drains, they can have better functioning grease traps that require less maintenance.
[Read more…]A Quick Tour of Our Revised Food Grease Trappers Website
For those of you who are frequently on our website (and our blogs), you may have noticed a difference this month. We recently overhauled the website to bring it up to standard with modern design and features (for example, making it easier to navigate on your phone). This blog is designed to walk you around the new features and pages, as well as some other pages you might not have known about. If you’re looking to know more about our services and products, this is the article for you!
[Read more…]Does My Entertainment or Sporting Venue Need a Grease Trap?
Whether your business involves ball games, crowds, or both, chances are you’re going to have to buy more than just cracker jacks: you’re going to have to make sure that your food venues that produce wastewater meet the requirements of your municipality and county. For most places in the US (and almost everywhere in New England), this means having grease traps installed. This blog is designed to go over the requirements of grease traps for entertainment or sport venues where food vendors operate under special circumstances.
[Read more…]Does My Business Need a Grease Trap?
Grease traps serve a critical role in your county’s infrastructure, by removing grease and other oils from your sinks and drains before it hits the public sewer systems and ultimately the wastewater treatment plants. Because of this, businesses and facilities that produce this kind of grease waste need to be regulated, and part of that is mandated grease traps. If you’re not sure if your business meets these requirements, review the blog below as the first step to getting some answers. [Read more…]
Is Your Grease Trap Ready for Your Restaurant’s Peak Season?
When your restaurant is busy, it’s easy to forget details like maintenance, especially something as out-of-sight, out-of-mind as a grease trap hidden in a backroom or a grease interceptor beneath the pavement out back. However, it’s at these peak seasons for your restaurant that your grease trap is at most risk – when it’s filling faster and not being monitored. Failure to keep this equipment ready for your busiest time can cause serious business-stopping issues from sewer overflow to health and safety violations. Time to get ready. [Read more…]
What to Watch Out for When Installing a Grease Trap System
The only thing worse than an overflowing grease trap is an overflowing grease trap that’s been poorly installed. A bad install can complicate every aspect of a grease trap or interceptor, from being able to know when it needs service, to breakdowns of the trap, to difficult or impossible to service due to awkward placement or conflicting machinery. Today we’ll look at three of the major issues you should look at before installing your grease trap to avoid troubles down the line. [Read more…]
Do I Need a Grease Trap If My Restaurant Doesn’t Use Oil?
We service thousands of grease traps, and many of our first conversations with clients when they call about their grease trap is “I don’t get it, we have no grease. What could possibly be in there?” While they are called grease traps and grease interceptors, there’s more than just grease that gets pulled into a trap. And yes, this is how the grease trap is meant to function: taking water from your sinks and drains and treating it before the wastewater hits the sewers. If you think you don’t need a grease trap or don’t need your trap serviced, you may reconsider after reading this blog.
