What is your plan when a city official, contractor, or engineer says a 1,000-gallon grease interceptor must be installed in your drive-through, parking lot, or another area where vehicles will be driving over it every day? While it might be…
Even if a commercial kitchen has an effective grease interceptor properly installed and maintained, fats, oils and grease (FOG) can still escape into the wastewater system. While no grease removal system is 100 percent effective, a properly maintained, modern grease…
Business managers might feel as if their lives revolve around quarters … quarters of the year, that is. From taxes to financial reports and marketing initiatives, managers have a laundry list of tasks to accomplish four times a year. Food…
Think about the grease trap in your food service establishment. You’ve seen it labor on through long days, lunch rushes followed by full-house dinners—the silent workhorse of the kitchen that helps keep your commercial kitchen environmentally friendly. But, did you…
The federal government takes grease seriously. Very seriously. In fact, the Department of Justice is ready, and willing, to issue federal jail time to any individual who knowingly violates the Clean Water Act, a standing tenet of which is proper grease…
You always score a solid “A” during health department inspections. You make sure your fire extinguishers and other safety gear is regularly inspected. And if something goes wrong with a piece of equipment, you immediately call a service technician and…
Changing demographics and lifestyles are producing greater strains on water treatment systems and could threaten water quality. Surprised? It’s true. And we’re not just talking about the strain of a growing population. Since the 1970s, the amount of food consumed…
A Long Poot or a Short Toot? The smell was putrid, foreign, the caller said. The strange odor, which emanated from somewhere on the college campus, stung the nostrils of the untrained and the unsuspecting. But mostly the smell, characteristic…