UniVac Streamlines Kitchen Cleaning Process; Delivers Superior Results

Cleaning the kitchen floor is your employee’s most dreaded task. After a long shift of prepping, cooking, and serving, workers just want to clock out and go home. Instead, they face a physically demanding, multi-step, multi-tool, cleaning and degreasing process.

The results are even more discouraging. After all that time and back breaking work, tiles feel tacky, grout looks grimy, and crumbs remain under equipment. That means repeating the process, costing you more in labor hours. Or leaving the mess in place, costing you more in project cleaning.

Sound familiar? Then it’s time to improve your process. The UniVac® from Kaivac streamlines and standardizes kitchen floor cleaning, delivering superior results every time no matter who is doing the work. Here’s how the UniVac compares to standard kitchen cleaning protocols.

Mops, Brushes, Buckets, Scrubbers

There are endless methods for conventional kitchen floor cleaning. Some protocols ask workers to just mop with degreasing chemicals. More thorough approaches call for pre-sweeping, flooding sections of the floor with degreaser, scrubbing with a deck brush, letting the solution dwell, rinsing, and drying with mop.

One kitchen may mop, scrub, and then use a wet vac to dry the floor. A different kitchen might integrate an automated mini-scrubber to try for better results (at least on the walkways. No scrubber can fit under equipment). “Everyone has their own idea of what kitchen floor cleaning looks like,” says Marc Ferguson, Vice President of Global Sales, Kaivac.

No matter the method, results look similar. Floors remain a little greasy, grout looks black, and bits of food stay trapped under equipment. This means frequent calls for expensive deep cleaning sessions or risk failing your next audit.

UniVac Makes Kitchen Cleaning Easy

The UniVac from Kaivac replaces this variability with an efficient, effective process that delivers superior results time and time again. Workers simply:

1. Flood the floor with cleaning solution
2. Spread the solution with the speed scrubber
3. Vacuum the mess away

The process does not require pre-sweeping (although large bits of debris should be picked up) and there is no need to let cleaning chemicals dwell. The tool easily reaches around and under kitchen equipment, reducing the need to pull heavy appliances out and away from the walls as frequently.

The UniVac leaves the entire floor completely clean, dry, and grease free in about half the time of conventional cleaning methods. As it removes 60 times more soil than a mop and bucket, the UniVac restores tiles and grout to like-new conditions. “That means employees don’t have to combat residual soils,” says Ferguson. “They only have to remove the dirt and grease created that day.”

With the UniVac, employees work with purpose. Instead of wasting time and effort on a cleaning process that doesn’t really clean, employees engage with a tool that delivers satisfying results. The UniVac actually turns a frustrating, time-consuming job into an easy task that workers enjoy.

Don’t believe that your staff could possibly enjoy cleaning the floor? Check out these testimonials from restaurant managers that made the switch. They report happier, more engaged workers, streamlined cleaning processes, savings in labor and supplies, and most importantly, clean, grease-free floors.

Click here to learn more about how the UniVac can improve your cleaning process.