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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| For those hood cleaners that dump their water out back of the restaurants. You better be really careful now. The school I attended to learn kitchen exhaust cleaning showed us how to dump our waste water out back. I was told that as long as it didn’t make it to a river or steam, everything was ok. I learned better ways over the years, but for those of you who are doing this, you better watch out. | |
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For those of you who didn’t know, I won the first annual Nobel Grease Prize a couple of days ago. One of the prizes that I won was a seat at the head table with two of the biggest names in the hood cleaning industry: Daryl Mirza and Phil Ackland, on Nov. 14th in Tx.
I’m going to give this prize away to those of you who are on my list AND going to the roundtable. You must be on the hood cleaning helper update list AND you must attend the FREE rountable in Texas on the 14th of this month. All you have to do is email me that you are attending and I will put you in the fish bowl for the drawing on Friday.
Friday is the cut-off!!! Ya snooze, ya lose. All the big guns will be there. The experts from Delco, pressure washing experts, fleet washing experts… it’s going to be awesome!
Oh yeah, if you need information on the rountable go here: Texas Roundtable
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.
