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Guides for Commercial Kitchen Operators
Straight answers about grease traps, interceptors and what Calgary expects from food service establishments.
Calgary grease interceptor bylaw guide
What the City of Calgary expects from food service establishments handling fats, oils and grease — and what that means for your maintenance file.
How often should a grease trap be cleaned?
Interval is a function of capacity and fill rate — here is how to work out yours instead of copying someone else's schedule.
What affects grease trap cleaning cost
The variables that actually move the price, so you can compare quotes on something other than a headline number.
Grease trap vs grease interceptor
The terms get used interchangeably. Here is what each usually means in the field and why it changes how the unit is serviced.
Signs your grease trap needs cleaning
The symptoms that show up before a full backup, plus what a proper cleaning visit actually involves.
Grease trap maintenance checklist
What kitchen staff can do between services, and what belongs in your maintenance file, laid out as a working checklist.
What happens if a grease trap is not cleaned
The failure sequence, in the order it actually happens, and where the cost stops being a cleaning invoice.
Grease trap smells: causes and fixes
Sulphur, sour or musty — what each odour usually means, and the fixes that work rather than mask.
Preparing for a service visit
A short pre-visit list that keeps the job on schedule and stops the kitchen losing time it did not need to.
Grease trap sizing and capacity
How capacity is described, why undersized units fail early, and how to find out what you actually have.
Multi-tenant buildings
Shared interceptors, several food tenants, and how to keep responsibility and records straight.
Choosing a service provider
The questions that separate a full service from a quick skim, and what a good service record looks like.
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