If you are a contractor that does restaurant hood cleaning, (sometimes referred to as kitchen exhaust hood cleaning), or just pressure washing commercially, you have come to the right place. Here at Hood Cleaning Helper, my goal is to equip other professionals with the right tools to help them achieve success. We make a living in an industry that looks upon us as the bottom of the barrel and I plan on changing that, one contractor at a time.
Hood cleaning prices are all over the board across the country and this isn’t good for the customers we serve, nor our company’s long term success. While bidding on contracts, a restaurant owner may have one price as low as $70 then another in the thousands. How can two different companies be so far from each other on price when they are suppose to be doing the same scope of work? The truth is, it usually comes down to what is actually being cleaned. Company A may only clean the hood and Company B is cleaning the entire kitchen exhaust system from hood to fan.
Over the years of restaurant hood cleaning, I have seen very good work and I have seen work that made me embarrassed to call myself a hood cleaner. Sometimes bad hood cleanings happen because the contractor wasn’t properly trained or didn’t have the proper tools to clean the kitchen exhaust system from top to bottom to bare metal as suggested by the NFPA #96. Sometimes, they are just lazy. I can’t help with the former, but I intend to help those of you who are looking for help because you want to do the job correctly.
I plan on passing down the years of personal experience, learned knowledge, specialty tools, business forms and many other things that will build up this industry and help those of you who are in the restaurant hood cleaning business to stay.
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Fire started in ventilation system that was scheduled to be cleaned today!!! Wow. Kitchen exhaust cleaning is being put on the back burner by some restaurants struggling to stay above water in this economy. Now it will cost this owner a lot more than the price to have his vent hoods cleaned.
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by Ryan Hutchins/For The Star-Ledger WOODBRIDGE — The Shalimar Restaurant on Oak Road in the Iselin section of Woodbridge was destroyed by a fire this …
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It was 2 years ago that a major restaurant grease fire changed how restaurant hood cleaning was regulated from then on. I think we hood cleaners need to think of these two fire-fighters every time we are feeling lazy about doing our jobs correctly. Somebody’s life could be on the line.
Two years ago fire struck a restaurant in West Roxbury in the city of Boston. The fire rapidly advanced necessitating the striking of four alarms. Two Boston firefighters, Paul Cahill and Warren Payne, perished during the fire.
The WatchDesk Post – http://www.watchdeskpost.com/
This restaurant will be shut down for awhile thanks to his hood vents catching fire. Wonder if this restaurant owner saved money by going with the cheapest hood cleaning price he got?
When crews arrived flames and smoke were visible on the roof, said Tim Wheeler, EFD fire prevention chief. The fire was contained to the restaurant's …
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If you are anything like me, you want to have a restaurant hood
cleaning business that is growing; not dying. How we do that is by
marketing our business constantly and consistently. I would like to
share some of the things that have helped me market my hood cleaning
business over the years.
The first thing you need to do is familiarize yourself with AIDA. AIDA
stands for Attention, Interest, Desire, and Action. In all your
marketing you need to have a headline that attracts attention. I
personally study ads that I have seen for years in the backs of
magazines because I know that they are working.
Next to you need to pique the restaurant owner’s interest by stating a
problem that they are probably having. Is their current hood cleaning
company leaving a mess in their kitchen? etc…
Then, you want to offer the solution to their problem which will create
a desire in them. “We don’t leave messes when we’re done, how would
you like to come in the next morning and see your kitchen cleaner than
you left it the night before?” Something like that.
Finally, EVERY piece of advertising you put out must have a clear,
immediate call to action. “Call now for free inspection”, or “fill out
this form on our web page to have a representative call you right
away”. It must be clear.
Well, I hope these simple tips help you market your hood cleaning
business a little better in the future. I will have many more to come
so please fill out your name and email address in the update list to make sure you don’t miss
any. Also, please leave comments if you have some more advice on
marketing a restaurant hood cleaning business or pressure washing
business.
Whoever does their kitchen hood cleaning will be going through a terrible time in the upcoming months. Even though it sounds like the fire didn’t start in the exhaust system, you can bet that the hood cleaning company will be dragged into court about this. It is sooo important that you have the best tools available to get the job done correctly because your entire business can change in the blink of an eye.
*Fire* damages historic restaurant | San Francisco Examiner
A kitchen fire ruined lunchtime at the historic Tadich Grill on Monday, but The City’s oldest restaurant should be back in business soon. About 11 am, a two-alarm blaze that started in the restaurant’s wood-burning stove spread to a flue … An accumulation of cooking grease in the flue quickly heated up, resulting in tall spires of flames ejecting from the vent on the roof of the seven-story building at 230 California St. The flames lasted for about five seconds before …
Local News – http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/
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Initial reports say the fire started in the flue. I bet the hood cleaner is sweating bullets this morning; if there was a hood cleaner for this place.
San Francisco firefighters this morning are responding to a restaurant fire in the city’s Castro district, a dispatcher said. Units responded to fire …
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