Essential waste and environmental services for Hospitality and Food Businesses in Brisbane
When you
are running a food business, such as a restaurant, or a hospitality business, perhaps
a hotel or a pub, it’s always go go go. There are a lot of moving parts in
both, different expectations from a very diverse group of stakeholders that must
be met.
These
stakeholders are not just the business owners. They are yur Brisbane neighbours. The
regulators. The customers. The employees. And even the contractors.
And the
expectations might be equally diverse. The owners might want profit and minimal
complications. The neighbours – well they would likely want peace and quiet. Or
at least a minimum of issues. Best practice waste management is often expected - so a good environmental services company is the way to go!
The regulators
want their license fees paid and for the business to be legally compliant with all laws and regulations. The employees want to be paid, and want to have a
safe and relatively pleasant working environment. The contractors to, have
similar expectations, in all probability.
And
somewhere in the middle of all this is a manager, in Brisbane, working a juggling act trying
to meet all of these.
A great
question that gets asked all too often is what areas often need more attention.
Lets start
with this answer and first look at the kitchen area. This is a space that needs
to be clean, compliant, and serviced correctly. If that doesn’t happen, we risk
food contamination, insect infestation, plumbing issues, odour, vermin, all
kinds of problems.
But how to
avoid these?
One of the
most common causes of unpleasant odours in kitchens isn’t actually bad cooking.
It often comes from the plumbing, when it is in need of maintenance or
cleaning.
And the most
likely culprit is usually the grease trap. You see, when a grease trap isn’t serviced,
it fills up with fat. It can block and overflow. And when the fat is left too
long it goes rancid. Hence the smell.
Getting a
regular grease trap pump out can lower the risk of all of these occurring. So
although there is a small cost associated, if its not done, the cost of a clean
up is often far higher.
One of the next
most common causes of issues in food premises is insect infestation and vermin,
such as rats and mice. We think everyone has heard a story where someone saw a
rat in a kitchen, or the dreaded cockroaches in food. Remember the movie Ratatouille - a movie about a rat, in a kitchen. Chaos.
Great movie though.
Again, a situation
that is totally preventable. A good manager will ensure that a competent
qualified company undertakes pest control services on a regular basis. These
might include spot treatments for cockroaches, spider treatments, flying insect
control, as well as ground based rodent pest management – mouse baits, rat
baits in non openable lockable bait stations.
We should
point out that there are rodent bait stations that are made of cardboard, but
these can be opened and the poison bait exposed. These are no longer able to be
used.
The final
item we are going to discuss in this post is waste management. Often when
people think waste management, they are thinking bins. In reality, the bins are
only a part of it. These need to be emptied, reliably, and safely, by a company
that can be trusted and is compliant with all of the relevant waste regulations.
Sound simple? You might think all waste companies are the same. If that was the
case, however they would all have reviews at the same level on the various
review sites. And is that the case? Not yet.
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