There have been a lot of restaurant grease fires lately. I have been linking them on twitter and here and some other places and to be honest, it’s hard to keep up with them all.
I wonder if it is because of the extreme winter weather this time of year and hood cleaners aren’t taking the time to go on the roofs of these places and clean the exhaust fans and ducts. With snow and ice up there, it’s easy to skip it.
This article says that there was creosote buildup in the ventilation system. Who knows when it was cleaned last? Owners and managers of restaurants sometimes give their cleaning duties to the lowest bidder and usually that lowest bid is low for a reason; they don’t clean the entire kitchen exhaust system!
I use this line in my advertising often, because it is so true, “Sometimes the cheapest price isn’t the least expensive choice”. Now, I’m not blaming the hood cleaner for this fire because to be honest, they can happen even if the system has been cleaned properly, but for arguments sake, lets say that the restaurant owner saved a few bucks on choosing this contractor.
They may save a couple of hundred dollars, even a thousand or so over the life of their contract. But, how much money did they lose from being closed and now having to repair their restaurant by choosing that lowest price?
For all of you hood cleaners out there, stick to your guns on prices! We know how much our insurance is. We know how much money it takes to run our businesses, it ain’t cheap! So when that restaurant owner says the last guy was cleaning it for $200 and you look down the duct and see months/years of build-up, you’ll know why they were only charging $200. They were simply cleaning where the owner could see and that was it.
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The news story says that the fire started in the kitchen and spread through the ductwork. It doesn’t sound like it burned too badly though, they are just waiting for the health department’s approval to reopen.
The Restaurant That Burned
Restaurant grease fire detroys a lot of restaurants every year. Be sure to have your kitchen exhaust system serviced by a professional. Then make sure they do their job correctly by requesting pictures of the ducts and exhaust fans on every cleaning. http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwestcoast911.com%2Fwp%2F2010%2F01%2F15%2Flong-beach-towne-centers-lucilles-catches-fire%2F
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Fire claims another restaurant. Just a reminder to have your grease ducts cleaned by a professional, then check their work to make sure they actually cleaned them!
By Andy Paras An early morning fire heavily damaged a Captain D’s restaurant on US Highway 52 in Goose Creek on Friday. No one was hurt. …
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Fire started in the motor on the roof. Scary stuff.
Firefighters are cleaning up after a fire broke out tonight at the Sugar Bowl Restaurant in Gaylord. Details are vague, but firefighters tell Fox 32 News …
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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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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 …
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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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