Practical advice on pricing, invoicing, getting clients, and growing your business.
Missed access panels, half-cleaned filters, and weak paperwork cost hood cleaners repeat visits and accounts. Here's a checklist to fix each one before you leave the site.
A single signature can replace a dozen sales calls. Here's how hood cleaning operators pitch, price, and service multi-location restaurant accounts without underbidding.
Most grease fire risk on a hood cleaning job hits before and after the scrubbing. Here's the shutdown, suppression-check, reassembly and documentation protocol that keeps jobs safe.
Fire inspectors and insurance adjusters are the most under-used referral partners in hood cleaning. Here's how to become the name they hand out — without paying for it.
What IKECA certification for hood cleaning actually involves, what it costs, and how certified operators use it to win multi-location contracts and hold higher pricing.
Adding documented kitchen exhaust inspections to your hood cleaning business typically adds $150–$400 per visit — here's the training path, pricing, and sales pitch.
A grease fire, a failed inspection, or an insurance dispute can turn into a lawsuit fast. Here's the photo and paperwork system that protects your hood cleaning business when it does.
When a client's restaurant fails its hood cleaning inspection, the next 48 hours decide whether you keep the account. Here's how to document, communicate, schedule, and price the fix.
What gear actually lands your first hood cleaning accounts, what can wait, and what a minimum viable rig versus a full pro setup really costs.
Most restaurant owners have never heard of NFPA 96 — until an inspector shows up. Here's how to explain it clearly and turn compliance into a reason they hire you.
Turn your hood cleaning client list into a predictable recurring revenue base by mapping NFPA 96 cleaning intervals across every account — before your competitors do.
Add $150–$400 to every hood cleaning visit by making exhaust fan hinge kits and filter replacements a routine part of your inspection conversation.