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Restaurant Cleaning to Prevent Pests

Restaurant Cleaning to Prevent Pests

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...

Tips for School Project Cleaning

Tips for School Project Cleaning

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...

How to Clean a Grocery Store: The Definitive Guide

How to Clean a Grocery Store: The Definitive Guide

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...

How to Break the Curse of Unpleasant Restrooms

How to Break the Curse of Unpleasant Restrooms

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...

Best Way to Clean Spills

Best Way to Clean Spills

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...

How to Choose Your No-Touch Cleaning System from Kaivac

How to Choose Your No-Touch Cleaning System from Kaivac

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...

Feeling Salty? How to Protect Floors from Road Salts

Feeling Salty? How to Protect Floors from Road Salts

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...

Using ESSER Funds to Keep Schools Healthy and Safe

Using ESSER Funds to Keep Schools Healthy and Safe

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 &...

Fastest Way to a Clean Convention Center

Fastest Way to a Clean Convention Center

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,...

Connect People, Equipment, and Results with KaiNect

Connect People, Equipment, and Results with KaiNect

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...

How to Clean a Hotel Lobby

How to Clean a Hotel Lobby

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...

Guide to Cleaning Airport Terminals

Guide to Cleaning Airport Terminals

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...

Kennel Cleaning to Keep Pets, and Pet Businesses, Healthy

Kennel Cleaning to Keep Pets, and Pet Businesses, Healthy

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...

How to Clean Up After a Flood

How to Clean Up After a Flood

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....

Airplane Cleaning for Health and Safety

Airplane Cleaning for Health and Safety

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...

Restaurant Kitchen Cleaning Checklist

Restaurant Kitchen Cleaning Checklist

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...

Cooler Case Cleaning Made Easy

Cooler Case Cleaning Made Easy

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...

How Much do Dirty Grocery Coolers Cost Your Store?

How Much do Dirty Grocery Coolers Cost Your Store?

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...

Classroom Cleaning for Health

Classroom Cleaning for Health

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...

Locker Room Cleaning for Health and Safety

Locker Room Cleaning for Health and Safety

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...

Best Way to Clean Casino Restrooms

Best Way to Clean Casino Restrooms

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,...

A Guide to Crime Scene Cleaning

A Guide to Crime Scene Cleaning

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...

The Ultimate Restroom Cleaning Checklist

The Ultimate Restroom Cleaning Checklist

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...

A Guide to Deep Cleaning Restaurant Floors for Safety

A Guide to Deep Cleaning Restaurant Floors for Safety

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...

Benefits of a Floor Cleaning Machine

Benefits of a Floor Cleaning Machine

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....

Cleaning Hospital Floors for Health and Safety

Cleaning Hospital Floors for Health and Safety

Clean hospital floors create healthier, safer hospital environments. Bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens regularly pollute hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare settings. Leaving these germs in place increases the risk of cross contamination and contracting a...

The Best Way to Clean Amusement Park Restrooms

The Best Way to Clean Amusement Park Restrooms

Clean amusement park restrooms can make, or break, an expensive family outing. Thanks to legendarily high maintenance standards set by Uncle Walt himself, guests expect every inch of a Disney property to be absolutely spotless. The Disney cleaning protocol is so...

The Best Way to Clean a School Cafeteria

The Best Way to Clean a School Cafeteria

A clean school cafeteria is vital for student health. Often serving two meals a day, with lunch a rapid-fire marathon of hundreds of students cycling in and out, school cafeterias can be as busy as any restaurant. Yet food service, and food safety, are not typically...

Disgusting School Restrooms Harm Health and Morale

Disgusting School Restrooms Harm Health and Morale

The report card is in. Smelly, disgusting school restrooms actively harm student health, impede learning, and chip away at morale. It’s not surprising. The state of the restroom sets the tone for any organization. Filthy toilets, broken sinks, unpleasant smells, and a...

Best Practices for Cleaning a Baseball Stadium

Best Practices for Cleaning a Baseball Stadium

Cleaning a baseball stadium is a monumental task. After all, baseball stadiums are big. The largest, Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, CA, clocks in with 56,782 seats. But even the smallest, Progressive Field, in Cleveland, OH, holds a respectable 34,830. That’s not to say...

Benefits of a Professional Tile and Grout Cleaning Machine

Benefits of a Professional Tile and Grout Cleaning Machine

If you’ve ever tried to clean a kitchen or restroom floor by hand you know the benefits of a professional tile and grout machine. Maintaining any floor is hard work. Floors are the biggest surface in a building. They take a literal beating every day and must still...

The Invention of the AutoVac

The Invention of the AutoVac

Bob Robinson, Sr., CEO of Kaivac In about 2008, my wife, Carlene, and I joined a local fitness club here in Hamilton, Ohio. I liked to do the spin class, and she liked the yoga class. One day, spin was right before yoga, so she convinced me to stick around and try her...

Clean Better with a Restroom Pressure Washer

Clean Better with a Restroom Pressure Washer

Restroom pressure washers make quick work out of the most difficult, most unpleasant, costliest task in the Jan/San industry. Restroom cleaning is hard. The standard method of scrubbing, wiping, and mopping takes a lot of time. The required bending, twisting, and...

The Best Ways to Clean Racetrack Facilities

The Best Ways to Clean Racetrack Facilities

Auto racing is one of the hottest spectator sports today. NASCAR and open-wheel racing, also known as Formula One, are exploding in popularity, especially among young people and women. This shift makes racetrack cleaning protocols more important than ever. A spotless...

Spring Cleaning Checklist

Spring Cleaning Checklist

Get your cleaning checklist ready, it is time for Spring Cleaning. After a long season full of extreme winter weather, nothing delights clients more than walking into a fully refreshed facility. Hopefully, your regular maintenance schedule keeps interiors in good...

Clean Restrooms that Stop Complaints for Good

Clean Restrooms that Stop Complaints for Good

Clean restrooms help your entire facility shine. Sparkling, well-stocked, fresh smelling restrooms make your customers feel good. They say management is competent and cares about  the safety and well-being of staff and customers. Poor restroom cleanliness tells...

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