Category: Compliance & Regulation

Proper fryer oil storage protects food quality, prevents plumbing issues, and ensures inspection compliance. This guide covers safe handling, disposal, legal requirements, and how to turn used oil into profit.

Pump grease traps at one-quarter full, clean exhaust ducts regularly, swap filters weekly, recycle waste cooking oil via licensed haulers, keep records, and train staff steps in preventing sewer backups, fires, fines.

South Florida kitchens must pump grease traps routinely, hire licensed haulers, and keep signed service manifests. Skipping steps—like untracked hauling or dumping oil into drains—brings fines from $250 to $5,000, cleanup costs, and possible license suspensions. Proper disposal protects waterways, avoids sewer blockages, and preserves vital tourism dollars.

New Jersey fights a never‑ending battle against fatbergs—rock‑hard clumps of fat, oil, and grease (FOG) that glue themselves to sewer walls. In 2024 alone, Middlesex and Hudson counties logged more than 400 emergency clear‑outs, soaking rate‑payers for about $3 million. A single turkey‑fry mishap can add to that total. This guide shows you exactly how…

MIAMI — *More than 650 grease‑related blockages strike Miami‑Dade’s sewer network every year, costing rate‑payers over $500,000 in emergency repairs and threatening Biscayne Bay’s coral and seagrass. For homeowners frying pastelitos in Westchester and restaurateurs in Brickell’s sky‑rise kitchens, responsible grease disposal has never been more urgent: county fines reach $10,000 per incident and regulators inspect…