Restaurant Grease Traps

Restaurant owners are under fire for discharging excess oil and grease to the sanitary sewer in many locations around the U.S. some because their grease traps are not properly maintained and others for lack of an adequate grease trap system. Maintaining a restaurant grease trap is expensive, whether you are performing the work yourself or having a vacuum truck company pump the trap. The frequency of cleaning depends on many factors; size and location of the grease trap and even the menu items prepared by the kitchen.

Larger grease traps (3-500 gallons) are usually maintained by a professional service, costs can run into hundreds of dollars each month. Added to the service cost you must consider the smell and mess the customers may be exposed to.