From opening till close, grocery store floors take constant abuse. Spills, weather-related messes, and heavy foot traffic leave their mark throughout the store, while grease and food fall in deli/café areas create potentially dangerous conditions. The All...
Ray Chow knows food service. Since 1997, Chow owned and/or managed several restaurants and catering business in and around Raleigh-Durham, NC. Today, he spends most of his time – about 12 hours a day – at Catering Concepts. This commissary kitchen serves as home base...
When it comes to cleaning large floors, many facility managers look to auto scrubbers. While they definitely outperform mops, these machines come with a lot of downsides too. Luckily there are auto scrubber alternatives that fit every floor cleaning task. The Trouble...
Ah the restrooms. Everyone’s most hated cleaning job, especially when it comes to cleaning the toilet. Yet clients, customers, and guests demand fresh restrooms and sparkling clean toilets every time they visit your establishment. In fact, your company’s reputation...
Recreational facilities bring communities together. According to the National Recreation and Park Association’s Engagement with Parks Report, more than 280 million Americans visited a local park or recreation facility at least once during the past year. They come to...
School events raise money and help bond community. They also create big messes. The positive outcomes definitely outweigh the extra cleaning school events require. Studies show that students who participate in extracurricular activities and social events...
Veterinary clinics, just like any medical facility, need to be clean and sanitary for the health of both patients and staff. Good cleaning and disinfection practices also protect the reputation of your clinic. After all, 97% of pet owners consider their pets as part...
Spills in a quick serve restaurant (QSR) demand immediate attention. Whether they happen in the kitchen, behind the counter, or in the dining area, spills are more than a messy inconvenience. They create dangerous slip and fall conditions for both employees and...
Keeping a correctional facility clean is about much more than aesthetics. Of course, good maintenance practices help prevent the spread of infections and disease in any crowded, congregant setting. But proper cleaning in a correctional facility does even more....
Cleaning to improve indoor air quality creates healthier spaces for everyone. Indoor air quality (IAQ) describes how the air inside a space can affect health, comfort, and ability to work. Considering we spend about 90 percent of our time indoors, IAQ is vital...
Regular carpet cleaning comes with many benefits. Routine maintenance keeps carpet looking good and extends the material’s life. The practice also removes allergens and impurities, protecting your facility’s indoor air quality. Carpet maintenance can also be a...
Commercial buildings contain a variety of flooring types. This assortment makes for attractive, comfortable, and efficient interiors. It also complicates maintenance routines. Cleaning a greasy kitchen floor is very different than maintaining terrazzo or carpet. And...
Clean stadium restrooms enhance the game day experience for everyone. Sure, sports fans focus mostly on the action, but they also buy lots of concessions. In fact 72% of US fans always or usually purchase food at a game, while 76% always or usually buy a beverage,...
Louisville School District, in Louisville, OH, educates, empowers, and engages learners from pre-kindergarten to high school. Around 3,000 students and staff members fill the district’s four schools and administrative building throughout the year. Tim Volkert,...
Knowing how to clean a commercial kitchen is a big part of any restaurant’s success. Granted, running a restaurant has never been easy. But outside forces—the pandemic, the great resignation, and high food costs—challenge restaurant owners even further. The result?...
Custodians clean schools every day. But summer break lets them clean deeper. Without the constant stream of students, staff, and parents moving in and out of the building, janitors are free to tackle the big project cleaning and maintenance tasks without fear of...
Nothing tarnishes a restaurant’s reputation faster than a pest problem. A single sighting is enough to send diners running to the door. And local news outlets love to report about health code violations or evidence of infestation. This makes...
With over 63,000 supermarkets and grocery stores in the United States, consumers have a lot of choice when it comes to buying food. Between superstores and mass marketers like Walmart and Target along with discount grocers like Aldi and WinCo, shoppers spend an...
Here are ways to keep a basketball court floor safe and looking great on event day and every day.
Unpleasant restrooms can ruin your company’s reputation. More than just a punchline (think about the tv/movie troupe of repulsive gas station bathrooms) unpleasant restrooms have real world consequences. Customers remember smelly, littered, or unclean restrooms and...
Cleaning spills seems intuitive. Just throw something absorbent down and get back to work, right? Absolutely not. Spills cause more than unsightly messes. Spills can be responsible for delays, lost productivity, accidents, expensive lawsuits, and in the worst cases...
Choosing a No-Touch Cleaning® system from Kaivac is smart. Armed with this technology, employees can service restrooms much faster and more completely than they ever could with mops and rags. The machines deliver consistent, repeatable results leaving restrooms...
Road salts help protect people but wreak havoc on flooring materials. Smart application of ice melt chemicals makes winter walking and driving safer. But once tracked into your building these granules leave a terrible mess. Road salts can permanently scratch and mar...
Keeping a major university’s newest and largest dining facility clean and safe can be challenging. This two-story dining hall bustles with activity from 7:00 am until 9:00 pm, serving around 6,000 meals every day. The facility features a dozen food stations and two...
The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) expires soon. This federal grant program, administered by the U.S. Department of Education in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, totals a whopping $189.5 billion. But as of last year McKinsey &...
Maintaining a clean convention center takes a lot of work and resource. Convention centers are huge, with the biggest, McCormick Place in Chicago, boasting 2.6 million square feet of exhibition space alone. The venue also has enormous meeting rooms, ballrooms,...
KaiNect, from Kaivac, simplifies training, increases visibility, and streamlines fleet management, all from one app. Using Internet of Things (IoT) technology, KaiNect collects actionable information from a single Kaivac machine, or an entire Kaivac fleet, so...
A clean hotel lobby serves as the best company calling card. Just like eyes are the windows to the soul, hotel lobbies reflect the company’s brand, setting the stage for the rest of the experience. Depending on the property, hotel lobbies can be funky or formal, cozy...
Air travel is back, making spotlessly clean airport terminals more important than ever. With pandemic-based disruptions and fears fading, 2024 looks to be a milestone year for global passenger traffic recovery. Experts predict 9.4 billion passengers will take to the...
There is a better way to protect patients and staff from infections in the hospital, clinic and doctor’s office. Here are cleaning tips for healthy patient rooms.
Keeping floors in top shape is important, but different materials require different tools, techniques and approaches. Here is a guide to maintaining floors by their type.
Retailers understand the importance of good floor design. Flooring materials do more than set the scene, they tell a story. The right mix of hard and carpeted surfaces supports exploration, creates comfort, and encourages shoppers to spend more time—and money—during...
Proper kennel cleaning helps keep dogs healthy and safe. In the U.S. over 65 million households own a dog (although “own” may not be the right word as 97% of pet owners consider their pets part of the family). And, just like any family member, health and comfort are...
As the frequency and severity of bad weather events increase, knowing how to clean up after a flood can get you back to business sooner. Big, devastating flooding events are on the rise, according to Flood Defenders, a non-profit advocacy group for flood victims....
ServiceMaster Mexico is one of the largest, most renown Building Service Contractors in Mexico. Operating in 14 states, the company’s 2,700 employees clean offices, schools, and factories. But ServiceMaster Mexico is best known for healthcare cleaning, with clients...
Proper, thorough airplane cleaning should be a given in a post-COVID-emergency world. But judging by multiple news articles about disgusting airplane conditions it seems like airplanes are actually less clean and safe than before. Why would airplane cleaning...
Arm yourself with facts about the flu you may not know for a healthier, better protected flu season.
With over 2,700 locations in North America alone, Popeyes is one of the largest fried chicken Quick Serve Restaurants in the world. Gilligan Company owns and operates several Popeye locations, including seven in Columbus, OH with two more slated to open in the next...
A restaurant kitchen cleaning checklist may look simple but this vital tool helps keep customers healthy and your business thriving. No restaurant owner wants to see their establishment end up on a failed inspection list or featured in the local newspaper because of...
For busy grocery store managers, out of sight often means out of mind. Take cooler case maintenance for example. Calling an HVAC professional in for routine cleaning is expensive. Asking staff to tackle the work costs, less but employees may feel overwhelmed by the...
Keeping grocery coolers in top shape is your store’s biggest expense, according to the Grocery Facilities Benchmark Report from ServiceChannel. The typical U.S. grocery store spends about $101,900 every year on all equipment repairs and maintenance, says the...
The new semester is about to start, and classroom cleaning for health is on everyone’s mind. Threats like flu, COVID, RSV, and common colds did not go away during breaks. But with everyone coming back together instances of these illnesses, and maybe some mysterious...
Proper locker room cleaning is vital for health and safety. Warm, humid, and busy spaces, locker rooms are the perfect petri dish for a variety of dangerous pathogens to thrive. Without proper cleaning strategies in place, these pathogens will grow and spread, putting...
Proper casino restroom cleaning is vital to the success of the operation. Casinos, just like every other sector of the hospitality industry, bet on the quality of their interiors to attract and delight customers. But they are more than just any old restaurant, hotel,...
Crime scene cleaning requires training, rigor, and a whole lot of compassion. These workers take on the difficult task of cleaning blood, body fluids, and other biohazards from crime scenes, suicides, hoarder situations, and more. The job is dangerous, exposing...
A well-thought-out restroom cleaning checklist can help businesses run more smoothly and be more profitable. That may seem like a big promise from a little printed worksheet, but formal restroom cleaning instructions do a lot of heavy lifting. They set out clear...
Restaurant deep cleaning is a complicated job. It is also vital to protect the health and safety of your workers and customers. But maybe not for the reason you’re thinking. Most people think about food safety when considering commercial kitchen cleaning. It is a...
A large midwestern school district containing over 100 educational and administrative buildings relies on a fleet of No-Touch Cleaning® systems from Kaivac to service their restrooms. The newly adopted technology is a huge improvement over the rags, mops, and toilet...
Using floor cleaning machines gives superior results on nearly every metric. After all, floor cleaning by hand is tedious, backbreaking work. Surfaces must first be swept or dry mopped to remove debris then wet mopped or scrubbed to get rid of dirt, germs, and stains....
The Joe Nuxhall Miracle League Fields at Hatton Park in Fairfield, OH allows adults and children experiencing physical, emotional, or mental disability to enjoy unrestricted play. Envisioned by Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame pitcher and announcer Joe Nuxhall and brought...
