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Free Used Cooking Oil Pickup Across the San Francisco Bay Area

Oil Guyz collects used cooking oil from restaurants across the Bay Area — Fremont, Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, Hayward, Berkeley, and the surrounding cities — for recycling into biodiesel feedstock. CDFA-compliant chain of custody on every pickup.

Grease collection truck behind a restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area

Free Used Cooking Oil Pickup for Bay Area Restaurants

If you run a restaurant in the Bay Area — a dim sum spot in San Francisco’s Richmond District, a taqueria in Oakland’s Fruitvale, a ramen counter in Berkeley near campus, a Vietnamese kitchen in San Jose’s Little Saigon, a Filipino restaurant in Daly City, an Afghan kitchen in Fremont near the Centerville neighborhood, a brewery kitchen along Treat Boulevard in Concord, a high-end farm-to-table restaurant in the Mission, a Chinese seafood house in Cupertino, a fried-chicken sandwich shop along Telegraph Avenue in Oakland — used cooking oil is the operational problem that always falls through the cracks until it forces itself to the front of the line. The container behind the kitchen fills up faster than your hauler returns calls. The City of San Francisco SFPUC FOG program, the East Bay Municipal Utility District, the Santa Clara County environmental health office, or the Alameda County environmental health team asks for your last six manifests and you cannot find them. Oil Guyz takes that problem permanently off your plate. We provide free scheduled used cooking oil pickup for restaurants across the entire Bay Area — the East Bay, the Peninsula, San Francisco proper, the South Bay, and the Tri-City area around Fremont — with no contract, no monthly fee, and no per-pickup charge. Routes are anchored out of Fremont and reach the full Bay Area service footprint.

When you sign up, we deliver a sealed steel container to wherever your kitchen currently stores oil — beside the grease trap in your back alley, behind your enclosed dumpster gate, in your parking lot bay, in your basement service area. Sizes range from a 50-gallon drum for a small cafe or breakfast spot, to a 100-gallon container for a mid-volume kitchen, to a 250-gallon lockable tank for a high-volume operation like a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco’s Sunset District, a Vietnamese pho shop in San Jose’s Little Saigon, a Korean BBQ in Oakland Chinatown, or a brewery kitchen in Hayward. Your line cooks pour fryer oil straight into the container after closing. The route truck swings by on your scheduled day, the driver pumps the oil out right where the container sits, and the container is empty and ready for the next shift before the truck pulls away. Every pickup generates a digital manifest with the date, gallons collected, our CDFA license number, and the destination renderer, emailed automatically to your inbox. When SFPUC, EBMUD, Santa Clara County, Alameda County, or your local health inspector asks for documentation, you forward the email and you are done.

All 26 Cities in Bay Area

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Bay Area local line:

(415) 319-7606

Oil Guyz Service Area in Bay Area County

We provide free used cooking oil pickup and recycling to restaurants throughout Bay Area County, CA and surrounding areas.

Frequently Asked Questions

We serve restaurants across the entire Bay Area service footprint. Our anchor cities are Fremont (where our Bay Area routes are based per our hauler’s Fremont facility), Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, Hayward, and Berkeley — but our route network reaches the surrounding cities in Alameda County, San Francisco County, Santa Clara County, and the East Bay corridor including Concord, Walnut Creek, Dublin, Pleasanton, San Leandro, Union City, Newark, Milpitas, Sunnyvale, and Mountain View. Coverage extends to South San Francisco, Daly City, San Mateo, Redwood City, and Palo Alto on the Peninsula. Whether your restaurant is in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Oakland’s Temescal district, the South Bay tech corridor, the Berkeley Gourmet Ghetto, or anywhere in between, we have a truck on a regular route through your area.
Yes — completely free, with no contract and no per-pickup charge. We make revenue on the back end by recycling your used cooking oil into renewable biodiesel feedstock. The sealed steel container is free, scheduled pickups are free, digital CDFA manifests after every pickup are free, and emergency overflow response is free. Many Bay Area restaurants switch to us after discovering they have been paying their previous hauler for a service that should cost them nothing. For very large generators producing more than 500 gallons per week from a single location — typically high-volume Chinatown restaurants, hotel kitchen contracts, university food service operations, or commissary kitchens supporting multiple food trucks — we also offer a commodity-based rebate. Ask about it when you sign up if your volume qualifies.
Most Bay Area restaurants are added to a route within one week of signing up. Our Bay Area routes are anchored out of Fremont, which gives us reliable daily coverage across the East Bay, San Francisco, and the South Bay. After you submit the signup form, a route coordinator reviews your location, your weekly oil volume estimate, and your preferred pickup day. We slot you into the nearest existing route so service can begin on the very next scheduled run. Restaurants in high-density Bay Area corridors — San Francisco’s Mission and Chinatown, downtown Oakland, San Jose’s Little Saigon, the Berkeley Telegraph Avenue corridor, the Fremont Centerville area — are often added within one to two business days. You will receive a confirmation with your pickup day and estimated arrival window within 24 hours of signing up.
Yes. We hold a current CDFA Inedible Kitchen Grease transporter license, which is the state-level California credential required by law to collect and transport used cooking oil. This license covers every county in California, including Alameda, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Contra Costa, and San Mateo counties — the full Bay Area footprint. Each pickup generates a digital manifest that meets CDFA recordkeeping requirements under Title 3, California Code of Regulations Section 1180.24. Your restaurant receives a copy of every manifest automatically. The City of San Francisco SFPUC FOG program, the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD), Santa Clara County environmental health, and Alameda County environmental health all accept our digital manifests as compliance documentation. We also carry full commercial auto and general liability insurance on every truck.
Most restaurants across the Bay Area qualify for free used cooking oil pickup, regardless of cuisine, neighborhood, or volume. We service Chinese kitchens across San Francisco’s Chinatown, Richmond, and Sunset districts, dim sum and noodle houses in Oakland Chinatown, taquerias and pupuserias throughout the Mission and Fruitvale, Vietnamese pho shops in San Jose’s Little Saigon and Oakland’s San Antonio district, ramen counters and izakaya across the Bay Area, Indian and Pakistani kitchens along El Camino Real, Filipino restaurants in Daly City and Union City, Korean BBQ houses in Oakland and Santa Clara, Ethiopian kitchens in Oakland’s Temescal district, brewery taprooms throughout the East Bay, ghost kitchens and shared commissary operations across the South Bay, and farm-to-table restaurants throughout the entire Bay Area. We pick up from independents, multi-unit chains, hotel restaurants, hospital cafeterias, university food service contracts, and event caterers. No minimum volume to qualify — smaller kitchens get monthly pickups, larger kitchens get weekly or twice-weekly. Restaurants in seasonal tourist zones like Fisherman’s Wharf, Pier 39, and the wine-country edges of the Bay Area get adjusted pickup frequency for surge volume at no additional charge.
When you sign up, we deliver a sealed steel container sized to your kitchen — a 50-gallon drum for a small cafe or breakfast spot, a 100-gallon container for a mid-volume restaurant, a 250-gallon lockable tank for a high-volume operation like a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco’s Sunset, a Vietnamese pho shop in San Jose’s Little Saigon, a Korean BBQ in Oakland Chinatown, or a brewery kitchen in Hayward. The container is placed wherever your kitchen currently stores oil — by the grease trap, behind the kitchen door, in your back alley or dumpster enclosure, in your basement service area, in your parking lot bay — and it stays in that spot permanently. Your line cooks pour fryer oil straight into the container after closing. On every scheduled pickup, the driver pumps the oil out right where the container sits and leaves it empty for the next shift. We never swap or exchange containers. If yours is damaged, dented, or needs cleaning, we replace it at no charge. No rental fees, no deposits, no removal fees if you cancel.
The Bay Area used cooking oil collection market is one of the most competitive in California — large national haulers like Darling and Mahoney compete with regional CA-licensed operators, brewery-grease specialists, biodiesel-aligned collectors, and a layer of unlicensed underground haulers. Oil Guyz is positioned as a California-licensed operation with daily routes throughout the Bay Area anchored out of Fremont, with full CDFA Inedible Kitchen Grease transporter credentials, that runs genuinely free pickups with no contract, no monthly fees, and no per-pickup surcharges. What Bay Area restaurants notice most are reliability and paperwork. We show up on the day we say we will, every week, every two weeks, or every month depending on your schedule — and digital CDFA manifests are emailed automatically after every pickup. No chasing paperwork weeks later. Drivers on our Bay Area routes identify themselves on dispatch so your back-of-house staff knows the scheduled pickup is on property. When you call, you get a person who can pull up your account immediately.
Your used cooking oil leaves your Bay Area kitchen and goes to a licensed CDFA-registered renderer where it is cleaned, filtered, and converted into renewable biodiesel fuel or animal feed ingredients. Nothing gets dumped, landfilled, or sold into underground markets. Every gallon is tracked from the moment the driver pumps it out of your barrel to the moment it arrives at the renderer, with chain-of-custody documentation that follows the load the entire way. The digital manifest you receive after each pickup includes the destination facility name, gallons collected, our hauler license number, and the pickup date — exactly the information SFPUC, EBMUD, Santa Clara County environmental health, Alameda County environmental health, and your local health inspector look for during compliance reviews. If you want a year-over-year report of how much oil your kitchen has diverted from the waste stream — useful for sustainability storytelling, restaurant marketing, B Corp certification, or corporate ESG records — we pull that report for any time period on request. Biodiesel made from your used cooking oil powers commercial vehicles across the Bay Area — including some of the trucks running our Bay Area collection routes.

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