Restaurant Hood & Exhaust Cleaning

Restaurant hood and exhaust cleaning specialists clean commercial kitchen exhaust systems - hoods, ductwork, fans, and grease traps removing grease buildup to prevent fires and meet code requirements.

This is mandatory service for restaurants and commercial kitchens.

Per-cleaning pricing ranges from $400-$2,000 depending on system size with monthly, quarterly, or semi-annual frequency.

Servicing 30-80 restaurant accounts generates $120,000-$400,000 annually with 50-70% margins.

Target clients include restaurants and commercial kitchens, hotels and hospitals with kitchens, schools and institutional kitchens, food trucks and mobile kitchens, property managers with restaurant tenants, and new restaurant openings.

Services include kitchen hood and exhaust cleaning, ductwork degreasing, fan and rooftop equipment cleaning, grease trap cleaning and pumping, filters and baffle cleaning, and fire code compliance documentation.

Success requires specialized hood cleaning equipment and chemicals, working nights after restaurant closing, understanding NFPA 96 fire code requirements, providing compliance stickers and documentation, building recurring restaurant client base, and potentially offering grease trap pumping.

Many hood cleaning services work exclusively nights when kitchens closed, build routes servicing restaurants on monthly or quarterly schedules, provide fire marshal inspection documentation, potentially offer emergency cleaning for failed inspections, work with restaurant equipment vendors for referrals, and scale by hiring crews operating multiple service rigs.