Pest Control Blog - Restaurant Pest Control

A Pest Control Checklist for Cafeterias: Best Practices for Controlling Pests

Adding pest control duties to your maintenance schedule can go a long way toward maintaining safe and sanitary conditions in a cafeteria, not to mention keeping you compliant with local regulations and ensuring a positive dining experience. The following pest control checklist for cafeterias can be your guide.

How to Control Pests in Your Restaurant — Rules, Regulations, and What You Can Do (Including a Downloadable Checklist)

About 48 million people (1 in 6 Americans) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die each year from foodborne diseases, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Even if no one gets sick from vermin on your premises, pests can still ruin pricey stock, scare off customers, and result in expensive fines.

How to Get Rid of Bed Bugs in a Restaurant: Protecting Your Customers & Business

Bed bugs don’t just make their homes in beds, houses, and hotels. Any business can end up with an infestation, including restaurants. Understanding how bed bugs get into restaurants and knowing how to spot the warning signs can allow you to take quick action. This post explains how infestations start and shares tips on how to safely get rid of bed bugs in a restaurant.

How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies in Your Bar

No matter how regularly you clean your bar from the floor to the ceiling, fruit flies can still find their way into your taproom. Fruit flies are attracted to sweet smells and sugary liquids, so they can easily become a real nuisance without active preventative measures. Use this guide to learn how to remove fruit flies in your bar and prevent future problems.

How to Keep Mosquitoes Away From Your Restaurant Patio

When the weather is pleasant, many enjoy dining at restaurants with outdoor seating. What your diners don’t want, however, are mosquitoes biting them or buzzing around their seats as they’re eating and drinking. Discover the best ways to keep mosquitoes away so your customers will continue to return to dine on your patio.

Avoiding Infestation – What Should Food Workers do to Prevent Pests?

Anywhere there’s food, pests will likely be interested—and restaurants and food processing facilities are particularly vulnerable to infestations due to the high volume of food coming and going daily. Below, we’ll outline some of the most common pest issues and how you can educate your staff to prevent infestations.

Rodent Infestations: How to Get Rid of Rats and Mice in a Restaurant

Rats and mice enter restaurants because they provide all a rodent needs: food, water, and shelter from weather conditions year-round. Rodents can carry diseases and contaminate food, preparation areas, and dining stations. This contamination could not only make employees and patrons sick, it can damage a restaurant’s reputation in the process.   Mice and rats enter restaurants through doorways, garages, siding, or rooflines and can squeeze through tiny cracks and holes in walls or pipes.

How to Get Rid Of Cockroaches in a Restaurant

Restaurants often struggle to control pest populations. With daily deliveries, food scraps, and the dreaded “dish pit,” there are a lot of areas for pests—cockroaches, in particular—to hide. Not only are cockroaches a tough pest to manage once they’re established, they can also spread disease and potentially shut down your restaurant. This makes it even more important to take the right steps to manage cockroaches in your restaurant. 

Maintain Food Safety with a Restaurant Pest Control Checklist

Keeping your restaurant safe from pests is an ongoing task that requires diligent oversight on a daily basis. In addition to protecting your staff and clientele from illnesses spread by pests who make contact with food and utensils, restaurant managers must also comply with their local food service regulations.