If you and your family recently opened a small restaurant, you might have many concerns about grease and how to dispose of it properly. Along with fat and oil, grease can clog up your kitchen drains over time. Grease can also attract insects and other unwanted guests to your building. You can keep your kitchen drains clear and prevent other unforeseen problems in your restaurant with the information below.
Why Is Grease a Concern for Restaurants?
Grease, fats, and oils can be a huge problem for restaurants of all sizes, including family-owned establishments. Restaurants use a significant amount of grease and other fatty substances during the year. Even if you clean your cooking pots, fry pans, and other cookware with detergent or soap, grease can still solidify inside your kitchen sink drains over time.
In addition to building up in your kitchen drains, grease can also cause issues with your grease trap. Although your grease trap should filter, separate, and store fat from the wastewater in your kitchen, the device can still stop working if you don't empty and clean it regularly. The oily and fatty substances inside the trap can actually spill over into your plumbing pipes and block them.
As a restaurant owner, you're responsible for disposing your grease trap contents properly. If the contents of your grease trap clog up the public sewer lines in your community, the city may hold you responsible for it. You can avoid these problems by having your grease trap professionally pumped.
How Do You Keep Your Grease Trap Problem Free?
You want to contact a septic system service provider in your area and ask them to pump out your grease trap. A provider may also clean and sanitize the trap to ensure that it operates properly. After a provider cleans out your grease trap, they may:
- offer tips on how to keep your trap from overflowing or building up with solid waste
- clean your kitchen drains or recommend where to find kitchen drain cleaning services
- place you on a regular grease trap pumping schedule
You also want to ask a provider to inspect your kitchen drains, including the drains in your floors. Pieces of food and grease can also spill into your drains and clog them. Gnats, fruit flies, and other pests can use the clogged debris to infiltrate your food and supplies.
If you need advice or assistance with your commercial grease trap, contact a company such as Mountain Valley Pumping.
