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Restaurant Cleaning

Restaurant cleaning services handle the dining room, restrooms, entry and floors after close, plus scheduled deep cleaning of kitchen floors, walls and equipment exteriors. Cleaning and sanitizing food-contact surfaces during service normally stays with your kitchen staff, and exhaust hood cleaning is a separate specialty. Pick your city below to compare the most-reviewed local cleaning companies, or request free quotes.

What restaurant cleaning usually covers

• Dining room tables, chairs, booths and high chairs.
• Restrooms cleaned, disinfected and restocked.
• Floors in the dining room, bar and kitchen, including degreasing kitchen floors and drains.
• Entry doors, glass, host stand and menus.
• Periodic deep cleaning of kitchen walls, ceilings and equipment exteriors.

What is different about restaurants

Food-contact surfaces such as prep tables, cutting boards and slicers are covered by your state or local health code, and the FDA says regulators use the FDA Food Code as the model for those rules. That work is normally done by your own kitchen staff during and after service, so agree in writing exactly what the cleaning company touches in the kitchen and which chemicals it may use there.

Kitchen exhaust hood and duct cleaning is done by specialist hood cleaning companies, not general janitorial crews. If you need both, book them separately.

Questions to ask before you sign

• Have you cleaned restaurants before, and can we call one of them?
• Can you start after close and finish before the morning prep crew arrives?
• Which kitchen areas are yours, and which stay with our staff?
• Are your chemicals safe for use near food areas, and how are they labeled and stored?
• How do you degrease kitchen floors and keep floor drains clear?

For the insurance, bonding and contract questions every building should ask, see janitorial services.

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