Built by Tech Founders to Fix the Used Cooking Oil Industry
Restaurants deserve a recycler that actually shows up, sends a real manifest, and answers the phone. We started Oil Guyz to make that the standard.
We Were Sitting at Lunch When We Saw the Problem
A few years back, Joey Bolohan and Matthew Ashrafi were finishing lunch at a restaurant when a used cooking oil hauler pulled up out back. The restaurant’s manager was arguing with the driver — the company hadn’t been out in three weeks, the oil was overflowing, and a health inspector had already shown up and threatened a fine. The manager was furious. The driver shrugged. That was the moment.
That was the moment we realized this industry was broken. Joey and Matthew are tech founders. They had spent the previous decade building software companies — clean interfaces, real workflows, software designed around the people who actually use it. And here was a dirty, oily industry still running on missed pickups, lost paper tickets, and handshake deals from thirty years ago. There had to be a better way.
So they got to work. They learned every step of the industry from the kitchen out — how containers get placed, how routes get planned, how manifests get generated, how oil gets transported, how it ends up at a biorefinery becoming biodiesel and renewable diesel. Then they built Oil Guyz from the ground up — software-first, designed around how restaurants actually run and how haulers actually operate. Every interaction got studied. Every workflow got rebuilt. Sign-up. Container delivery. Pickup cadence. Manifest delivery. Customer service. All of it engineered around one promise: a customer experience this industry has never offered.
That’s why Oil Guyz looks the way it does today. No more wondering if your hauler is going to show. No more digging through a binder for last month’s manifest when an inspector walks in. No more weeks of being ghosted while your container overflows in the alley. We built Oil Guyz so the system handles the mess — from your kitchen to the hauler to the biorefinery — and you get to run your restaurant.
“We’re passionate about the planet and closing the loop. Our kids deserve a cleaner planet to live on. That’s the heart of why we do this work in the used cooking oil recycling business.”
Software Built Around the Restaurant — Not Around the Truck
Mobile App for Pickups
Request your next pickup, change your schedule, or message customer service from your phone. The same app most haulers do not have.
Digital Manifests in Your Portal
The moment your container is empty, your CDFA-compliant manifest appears in your portal. Download a year of records as one PDF in ten seconds.
Real Customer Service
Call us. A real person answers. If something is wrong, our customer service team makes it right. That is the whole job.
What We Stand For
Reliability
We show up when we say we will. Every pickup is scheduled, dispatched, and confirmed inside the Oil Guyz platform — and you get a notification on pickup day so your team knows we are coming.
Transparency
No contracts, no hidden fees, no surprises. Pickup is free for restaurants and commercial kitchens. Higher-volume kitchens producing 300+ gallons a month may qualify for a rebate — ask our team. You always know exactly what you are getting.
Compliance
Every Oil Guyz hauler operates under an active CDFA Inedible Kitchen Grease transporter license, carries full insurance, and is trained on manifest requirements. Every pickup generates a digital CDFA-compliant manifest delivered to your portal. When an inspector asks, you pull it in seconds.
The Licensed Hauler Network Behind Every Pickup
Oil Guyz works exclusively with state-licensed used cooking oil haulers in every market we operate. Every truck on every route carries an active CDFA Inedible Kitchen Grease transporter license, full commercial and pollution liability insurance, and a digital manifest system tied directly to your Oil Guyz portal. Your kitchen stays compliant from the moment a driver arrives to the moment your oil reaches the biorefinery.
About Us — FAQ
Oil Guyz is a technology-led used cooking oil recycling service founded by Joey Bolohan and Matthew Ashrafi, both tech founders with a decade of software-company experience. We collect used cooking oil from restaurants and commercial kitchens and deliver it to licensed renderers and biorefineries — and we built a software platform around the entire experience. Every customer gets a mobile app to request pickups, a portal where their digital CDFA-compliant manifests live, and a customer service team that actually answers the phone. We launched with a single mission: make the used cooking oil recycling experience as good as the best software you use.
Yes. Every pickup generates a digital CDFA-compliant manifest that documents the date, time, volume, driver, vehicle, and destination biorefinery — meeting California Code of Regulations Title 3 Section 1180. Every hauler in the Oil Guyz network holds an active CDFA Inedible Kitchen Grease transporter license and full commercial and pollution insurance, so the chain of custody stays intact from your kitchen to the final biorefinery. Records are retained for seven years and available in your Oil Guyz portal anytime. When a health inspector or auditor asks for records, you pull them from your dashboard in seconds. Compliance is not a feature for us — it is the baseline.
Oil Guyz launched in 2026. We are newer to this industry, but our founders, Joey Bolohan and Matthew Ashrafi, are not new to building. Both spent the previous decade founding and operating software companies before deciding to bring that same engineering rigor to used cooking oil recycling. The mobile app, customer portal, digital manifest system, and scheduling platform were all purpose-built before we collected our first gallon. We did not bolt a website onto an old hauling business — we built a modern technology company that runs an oil recycling operation.
Oil Guyz currently operates routes across Southern California (Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego, Inland Empire), the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Tacoma–Seattle metro. We're actively expanding into new metros in 2026. The Oil Guyz mobile app, manifest system, and customer portal work the same in every market we operate — that's the whole point of building it as a platform from day one.
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