Where is my grease trap?
Your grease trap is either under your sink in a metal box, in your kitchen floor under a metal sheet, or outside your restaurant under 1, 2, or 3 man-hole covers. This device is designed to catch grease and food particles that go down the the floor drains or sink drains in your commercial kitchen. So it is somewhere between where the water goes down the drain and the sewer main. The little ones inside a restaurant are usually 20-60 gallons. So if you have ruled out that you do not have an indoor grease trap or grease interceptor (these are inte…
How to “Own Your Neighborhood” and Grow Your Sales: Student Marketing Interns
For many years, Greasecycle has employed part-time student marketing interns to help us grow the company. Typically run in the summer months, our three month program is designed for students who want to learn sales and marketing and other practical life skills while getting paid to help us grow. This program is modeled after a similar program I instituted for Marriott’s College/University food service in the 90’s and early part of the last decade. As recycling partners of over 1200 restaurants and other institutional food service establish…
How often should I pump my grease trap?
Each municipality requires the restaurants on its sewer collections system to follow different maintenance schedules. Durham and Orange County require a grease trap to be pumped out every 30 days. Carry requires every 60 days. Wake County requires grease traps to be pumped before the grease and solids build up in a grease trap acount for 25% or less of the total volume of liquid. Here is a good source of pre-treatment ordinances for various municipalities in North Carolina. A good basis would be to have a pumping frequency of every 60 days to s…
How Do I Open A Grease Trap (man Hole) Lid With No Special Tools?
Ever want to see if the company you pay to pump out your grease trap is actually doing what they are charging you for? Pumping out grease traps creates a strong odor. So it is really in everyone’s best interest if it is done off hours. But other than the bill the company sends you, how do you know the job is getting done? Well, on the day that the trap was pumped, all you have to do is open up the manhole cover and see if the trap is empty or not. Doesn’t that require some kind of special tool? Well yes it does, but if you are a McGyver fan, th…