Restaurant drain cleaning
A restaurant drain problem is never only a plumbing problem. Standing water at a dish pit is a health inspection risk, a slip hazard and a reason to stop service — so the work has to happen on the kitchen's schedule, not ours.
What goes wrong
Restaurant drainage takes a harder load than almost any other building type. Hot greasy water, food solids, starch, detergent and sanitiser all go into the same lines, all day, every day. Floor sinks take the overflow from prep stations and ice machines. The dish pit is the heaviest single source of fat in the building.
The real cost of a kitchen backup is rarely the plumbing bill. It is service stopped during a dinner rush, a health inspector arriving while there is standing water on the floor, or a closure. Those outcomes are what the work is actually protecting against.
So we schedule around you. Most restaurant jetting happens after close or before prep, with the kitchen clean and fully operational for the next service. Where a kitchen has a chronic problem, we would rather put it on a documented schedule than keep turning up mid-rush.
Signs you need this service
Two or more of these together usually means the line is restricted rather than one fixture being blocked.
- Water standing at a floor sink or in the dish pit during service
- Drains that back up predictably on the busiest nights
- Smell from floor drains when the kitchen warms up
- Flies around drains or the interceptor
- Mop sink or prep sink draining slowly
- An inspector has already mentioned drainage
How we do it
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Schedule around service
After close or before prep. The kitchen is operational for the next service, with no hose across a working line.
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Cover the whole kitchen, not one drain
Floor sinks, dish pit, prep sinks, mop sink and the run to the interceptor — cleaning one drain in a kitchen that shares a line achieves very little.
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Hot-water jet the grease-bearing runs
Heat releases hardened FOG from the pipe wall so it flushes out instead of smearing further along.
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Check the interceptor inlet and outlet
A clean interceptor with a blocked inlet still backs up into the kitchen.
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Leave records and a service interval
Documentation for your health inspection file, and an interval matched to how hard the kitchen actually runs.
Who this is for
Independent restaurants
One kitchen, no in-house maintenance, and no capacity to lose a service.
Multi-site groups and franchises
Consistent scheduling and documentation across every location under one contact.
Bars, cafés and ghost kitchens
Smaller footprints, often older shared lines in buildings never designed for food service.
Where we do this work
We take restaurant drain cleaning work nationwide. Texas is our first fully mapped state, down to individual city coverage.
Restaurant Drain Cleaning in Texas
Expansive clay soil, aging cast iron and year-round root growth make Texas lines fail faster than the national average. We cover 1,228 Texas cities across 244 counties.
Not in Texas?
Call us anyway. We work nationwide, and more states are being mapped the same way. If we can cover your address we will tell you on the phone, and if we cannot we will say that rather than waste your time.
Restaurant Drain Cleaning questions
Can you come after we close?
Yes, and that is how most restaurant work is scheduled. Overnight or early morning, so the kitchen is ready for the next service.
How often does a restaurant need drain jetting?
High-volume kitchens are usually quarterly, lighter operations semi-annual. The honest answer comes from inspecting your lines rather than quoting a package.
Will you give us documentation for health inspections?
Yes — camera footage where taken, what was found and what was done, with dates. That is the record an inspector or a franchisor will ask to see.
One of our floor drains backs up every weekend. Is that fixable?
Usually, yes, but it needs diagnosis rather than repeated cabling. A drain that fails predictably under load is telling you the line is restricted or badly fallen, and a camera inspection will show which.
Other services
Sewer Line Cleaning
Clears the main line that carries waste from your building to the municipal sewer or septic tank.
Service detailsDrain Line Cleaning
Clears the branch lines running from individual sinks, tubs, showers and floor drains into the main.
Service detailsMain Sewer Line Clog Removal
Emergency clearing when the main line is fully blocked and waste is backing up into the building.
Service detailsCommercial Drain Cleaning
Scheduled and emergency drain service for buildings where a backup means closing the doors.
Service detailsGrease Line Cleaning
Removes hardened fat, oil and grease from kitchen waste lines and interceptor runs.
Service detailsStorm Drain Cleaning
Clears catch basins, area drains and storm lines so sites drain before the water reaches the building.
Service detailsNeed restaurant drain cleaning?
Describe what the drain is doing and we will tell you whether this is an emergency, a cleaning job, or something that needs a camera down the line first.
(833) 349-033324/7 emergency service