"We already have someone who does this." Why that's not the whole picture.

This is the first thing most GTA kitchen owners say when a hood-cleaning or grease-trap conversation comes up, and it's usually true. Most kitchens have a vendor for one side of compliance. The question worth asking isn't whether you have a vendor. It's whether that vendor covers both of your obligations, or just one.

One vendor rarely means full coverage.

Hood-cleaning specialists clean hoods. Grease-trap companies pump interceptors. Very few vendors do both, which means "we already have someone" almost always describes half the picture: NFPA 96 covered, O.Reg 347 and your municipal sewer by-law tracked separately, informally, or not at all. Nobody sets out to leave a gap. It's just what happens when two unrelated services get sourced independently.

What that gap costs in practice.

Coordinating two vendors means two schedules to remember, two invoices, and two sets of paperwork to keep straight, usually by the owner, on top of running the kitchen. If either vendor is slow to respond or unclear on documentation, that gap sits there until an inspection surfaces it. The point isn't that your current vendor is bad at their one job. It's that nobody owns the whole compliance picture.

This isn't a pitch to switch everything at once.

Both of Northfire's services are available bundled or on their own. If your current hood-cleaning vendor is working fine, the conversation can start with the grease-trap side alone, or the reverse. What matters is that the side you're missing gets a real schedule and a real compliance log, not that you tear up an existing relationship that's already working.

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