Restaurants and commercial kitchens face distinct challenges with insects and rodents. The environment provides food and water that attract several invaders. German cockroaches live indoors in kitchens and bathrooms and multiply quickly. American cockroaches come up from sewers and drains to enter your building. Turkestan cockroaches live outside in cracks in concrete and hollow block walls, and males fly to lights at night. House mice and roof rats contaminate food areas and surfaces with droppings and shed skins. Rodents also leave urine and gnaw marks on packaging and walls. House mice nest low in garages and wall voids. Roof rats nest high in palm trees, dense shrubs and attics, and they travel along block walls and utility lines. We set up an ongoing routine to address the spaces where cockroaches and rodents live and breed.
Establishing a scheduled service routine
A commercial kitchen cannot rely on a single visit when issues arise. You need scheduled service to keep food preparation areas clear. We work with you to establish weekly, twice monthly or monthly visits depending on the property. We offer discreet service, before opening or after hours. We assign a named technician to your account. This means the same person handles your restaurant on every visit. Our professional inspects the interior and exterior, identifies the insect, locates where they enter and what conditions support them, and discusses the findings with you. Having a named technician means they learn where your specific problem areas are. They learn the layout of your dry goods storage and the location of your plumbing penetrations.
Site logbooks and written reports
Documentation matters for every commercial kitchen. We keep a site logbook on site for inspections and audits. This logbook remains at your restaurant so your management team always has access to the records. We provide written service reports after every visit with activity found. These written reports detail the treatments we applied, the areas we treated and the insects we identified. The professional also adds recommendations to the logbook. This creates a clear history of what happens in your kitchen over time.
What your kitchen staff does
Our treatments work alongside the actions your staff takes every day. We separate our treatments from customer responsibilities. Prevention alone does not end an active infestation, but your daily routines remove the conditions that attract cockroaches and rodents. Our recommendations often include fixing leaks and moisture issues under sinks and around dishwashing stations. Storing food sealed in tight containers helps reduce attraction. Reducing clutter in dry storage areas and break rooms gives insects and rodents fewer places to hide. Trimming plants away from the exterior walls of the building is also important. Keeping gravel and woodpiles away from the house makes a difference. When you keep the exterior landscape tidy, you give rodents fewer places to hide near your foundation. When your team handles the daily sanitation and structure maintenance, our treatments perform better.
Treatments for rodents and cockroaches
Our approach depends on the insects and rodents active in your building. For German cockroaches, we apply baits and use sticky monitors to track activity in the kitchen. For rodents, our professional inspects the roofline, attic access, and exterior yard. We place locked, tamper-resistant bait stations outside the building. Inside the kitchen, we trap rodents and return for follow-up trap checks to remove the trapped rodents. We offer exclusion work to close entry points. The professional seals gaps with steel mesh and sheet metal. We never offer cleanup or sanitizing services.
Setting up your kitchen account
Every restaurant has a different layout and different requirements. Our office provides quotes after a site walk-through. You always see and approve the price before any treatment begins. We use commercial agreements designed for the needs of your business. The process begins when you reach out to our team. We answer requests sent through the website during business hours, usually the same business day. We return calls received after hours the next business morning. Read more about setting up commercial pest control for your Las Vegas restaurant.
