Restaurant cleaning in Los Angeles.
Nightly cleaning, kitchen exhaust service, and grease interceptor programs for multi-location groups across LA County — scheduled around the letter grade in your window and the fire marshal who signs off on your hood.
The grade in your window is arithmetic.
Los Angeles is unusual in how public it makes the result. The placard is the first thing a guest reads, and the number behind it is entirely mechanical — which also makes it predictable.
An A is 90 or better, and below C there is no letter
LA County Public Health assigns the placard from the final routine inspection score: 90 to 100 is an A, 80 to 89 is a B, and 70 to 79 is a C. At 69 or below you do not get a letter at all — the window gets a numeric score card instead, which reads to the public exactly as badly as it sounds.
Every violation has a published price
Each inspection opens at 100 points. A major critical risk factor costs 4 points, a minor critical risk factor costs 2, and a good retail practice violation costs 1. Mark two or more majors and another 3 points come off on top. Two majors on their own is therefore 11 points — an 89, and a B in the window — before a single minor violation is counted.
Below 70 is a closure conversation
A routine inspection score under 70 makes the permit subject to suspension and is treated as an imminent health hazard, which carries immediate closure authority. There is no grace period built into that number, and no version of it that stays quiet.
Three cities in the county are not the county
LA County Public Health is the enforcement agency for nearly all of Los Angeles County, but Long Beach, Pasadena, and Vernon run their own environmental health departments. They work from the same California Retail Food Code, but they are separate agencies with their own inspectors, their own scheduling, and their own file on you. A group with a room in Long Beach and a room downtown is managing two relationships, not one.
What we run in Los Angeles.
This is our home market and our largest — 21 neighborhoods and change, most of them reachable by a crew on the same night.
Nightly cleaning across the county
Line, fryers, floors, and front-of-house reset after close, to one crew standard whether the room sits downtown, in Hollywood, in Koreatown, out on the Westside, or through Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley. A group running Beverly Hills alongside Long Beach gets the same close-out in both.
Hood and exhaust on what you actually cook
Cleaned to NFPA 96 intervals driven by cooking volume rather than calendar convenience: monthly for solid fuel, quarterly for high-volume charbroiling and wok cooking, semiannually for moderate volume, annually for low. The certificate stays on the premises naming the company, the technician, and the date, because that is what gets asked for.
Grease interceptors on the permit path
Inside the City of LA, food service establishments holding an industrial wastewater permit must install and maintain an approved, adequately sized gravity grease interceptor — 300 gallons minimum. Where space genuinely will not allow one, LA Sanitation can grant a variance for alternative grease removal devices. We schedule against the device you actually have and keep the records per location.
Deep cleans timed against the grade cycle
Equipment pulls, wall tile, floor drains, and walk-in seals — sequenced to land before a routine inspection window rather than in response to a bad one.
Why LA jobs run differently.
The regulatory picture is only half of it. Los Angeles adds its own physical constraints, and they are mostly about distance and air.
One county, many fire marshals
Health inspection is nearly county-wide. Hood cleaning enforcement is not. The City of LA answers to LAFD, unincorporated areas and contract cities to LA County Fire, and Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Pasadena, Burbank, Glendale, Culver City, and Long Beach each run their own departments. All of them apply NFPA 96 through the California Fire Code, but plan check, documentation habits, and how strictly an interval gets read vary by jurisdiction. Multi-location groups feel this far more than single rooms do.
Traffic is a scheduling input, not an excuse
A crew that can service three Westside rooms in one night cannot service one in Santa Monica, one in Pasadena, and one in Long Beach the same night, not with any honesty about arrival times. We cluster locations geographically and sequence overnight work so the last room does not get a rushed close-out at 5am.
Smoke and ash events load filters early
Wildfire and Santa Ana conditions push fine particulate into rooftop make-up air and exhaust filters on a schedule no interval anticipates. After a significant smoke event, filters and rooftop units want attention regardless of where the calendar sits. We flag it on the visit rather than waiting for the next scheduled cleaning.
The placard is a storefront asset
Because the grade hangs in the window, the inspection result is customer-facing in a way it is not in most cities. Operators who treat it purely as a compliance chore rather than part of the storefront tend to learn the difference from a review site.
Let us walk your Los Angeles locations.
An A is arithmetic, which means the work that protects it can be scheduled. Every visit we make is photographed and filed by location, and every interceptor service keeps its record — so the documentation exists before an inspector or a fire marshal asks for it.
Also serving New York City, Dallas, and Miami. Practical guides for operators are in our resource library — start with how often hoods need cleaning in LA.