Free Used Cooking Oil Pickup for Santa Clara Restaurants
Oil Guyz provides free used cooking oil pickup and recycling for Santa Clara, CA restaurants. Call (415) 319-7606 to schedule service.
Koreatown on El Camino Real, the Old Quad, the Lawrence Expressway tech campuses and the stadium and convention center area: a free locked bin, a set pickup day and a manifest after every visit.
Santa Clara pickup terms at a glance
- Pickup fee
- $0. Free scheduled pickup for restaurants and commercial kitchens
- Minimum volume
- None
- Contract
- None. Month to month, cancel anytime
- Container
- Free locked, anti-theft bin, delivered and placed for you
- Paperwork
- CDFA-compliant digital manifest after every pickup, 2 years of records
- Schedule
- Weekly or biweekly route, set around your kitchen hours
- Insurance
- Fully insured; pickups performed by registered transporters, oil recycled through licensed renderers
- Phone
- (415) 319-7606 and a real person answers, 24/7.
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Same-business-day callback
A real person answers, 24/7
Free locked bin
Delivered and placed for you
Manifest every pickup
Inspection-ready, 2-year records
Quick Answer
Oil Guyz provides free used cooking oil pickup, recycling and disposal for Santa Clara restaurants in the City of Santa Clara, next to San Jose, from the Korean kitchens of Koreatown on El Camino Real and the Old Quad around Santa Clara University to the Lawrence Expressway tech hub, the Northside by the Convention Center and Levi's Stadium, and Rivermark Village. Each kitchen gets a free locked bin, a set pickup day and a CDFA-compliant digital manifest that is ready for the Santa Clara Water and Sewer Utilities FOG inspector. No fee, no contract, no minimum. Call (415) 319-7606.
Free Recycling of Used Cooking Oil, From El Camino Real to the Northside
A restaurant on El Camino Real, a pizza counter near Santa Clara University and a kitchen close to Levi's Stadium fry on very different schedules, yet each wants a bin that stays closed and a paper trail for the oil.
Oil Guyz collects used cooking oil free from restaurants in the City of Santa Clara, with no contract and no minimum. Each kitchen gets a locked bin sized to the back door, or a compact caddy where a shared lot is tight. The oil is pumped out where the bin sits, a CDFA-compliant digital manifest follows by email after every visit, and the oil is recycled into feedstock for renewable diesel and biodiesel.
Call (415) 319-7606 or send the form on this page with the restaurant address. A person calls back the same business day to set bin size and the pickup day, and the first pickup follows in 3 to 5 business days.
How Free Used Cooking Oil Disposal Works for Santa Clara Restaurants
El Camino Real is where the City of Santa Clara eats. The city's own visitor guide calls it the culinary epicenter, with its Koreatown and Japanese, Indian, Mediterranean and Mexican kitchens spread farther east. Oil Guyz collects the used cooking oil from these kitchens in a locked bin sized to the kitchen, set at the back door and pumped in place on a set pickup day. A restaurant that shares a back lot with its neighbors, or has no room for a full bin, gets a compact locked caddy instead.
The Old Quad is the historic center of Santa Clara, with Santa Clara University, Mission Santa Clara de Asis and the Franklin Square shopping center. The university sits on El Camino Real and runs on a quarter system, ten-week terms followed by finals, so a cafe or pizza counter nearby can make more used cooking oil in term and less at a break. A kitchen like that can call when the calendar changes, and Oil Guyz moves the pickup day or the bin size to match, at no cost.
The Northside is built around events. The city's guide puts Levi's Stadium, California's Great America and the Santa Clara Convention Center within a mile of one another, with hotels, Mercado Santa Clara and Mission College close by. A kitchen on that side of town can ask for an early-day stop, and can call to add a pickup of used cooking oil before a big event week. Tech campuses and the Santa Clara Square Marketplace fill the middle of the city, Lawrence Plaza sits on the Sunnyvale line, and Rivermark Village serves the Rivermark district. Every one of them gets the same free bin, set day and manifest.
Get Free Pickup in Santa Clara
Free locked bin · No contract · No minimum. First pickup in 3 to 5 business days.
Prefer to talk? Call (415) 319-7606
What Santa Clara Asks of Restaurant Kitchens, and How Free Pickup Covers It
Santa Clara Water and Sewer Utilities runs the grease program for restaurants, and the sewage ends up at the San Jose-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility, which the two cities own together. The County of Santa Clara Department of Environmental Health looks after food safety inside the kitchen. For used cooking oil, the ask is short: none in the sinks or floor drains, and a kitchen that is ready for an unannounced visit that checks the outdoor areas and the paperwork. The Oil Guyz bin locks and stays closed outside, and the CDFA-compliant digital manifest emailed after each pickup is that paperwork, kept two years. Interceptor pumping is a separate job.
What Your Santa Clara Restaurant or Commercial Kitchen Gets
- No charge for the pickup, the bin or the manifests, with no contract and no minimum gallons
- Locked bins sized to the kitchen, from a Koreatown dining room to a high-volume hotel or event kitchen
- Compact locked caddies for restaurants that share a back lot or have no room for a full bin
- An early-day stop on request for kitchens near Levi's Stadium, Great America and the Convention Center
- An extra stop or a bigger bin, still free, when a campus term or an event week fills the fryers
- A CDFA-compliant digital manifest emailed after every stop and kept two years for the FOG inspector
What Bay Area kitchens say about Oil Guyz
Verbatim Google reviews from the restaurants we serve. On time, genuinely free, and the compliance paperwork is always handled.
Myk Espinoza
Oakland Ballers · Oakland, CA · Google review
“These dudes really bailed me out of a tough situation. My previous oil collection service had been really screwing me over. Spent 4 weeks of unanswered phone calls, texts, and empty promises with a company we've been using for two years just to get a used oil recepticle, all to no avail. We were sitting on 6 fryers with of oil I that I had nowhere to put. Called Joey and The Oil Guyz and he got me set up just a few hours later. Used oil container, service agreement, answered all of my questions. We're running a very odd program where our schedule is all over the place, so having a "regular" pick up schedule is out of the question. We worked out a way for quick/easy retrieval in about 5 minutes. Can't recommend these guys enough.”See full review
Noe Paniagua
Google review
“This guy's are amazing fast service”
trevor hedges
Google review
“These guys were extremely helpful in helping me get oil pickup for our business!”
Davide La placa
Google review
“Exceptional service! Oil Guyz is a fantastic company to work with. They are professional, reliable, and always provide excellent service. The team is friendly, knowledgeable, and takes pride in their work. It’s a pleasure dealing with people who truly care about their customers. Highly recommend Oil Guyz to anyone looking for dependable and professional service!”See full review
Bryan Baird
Google review
“We are a medium sized institutional kitchen located in San Juan Capistrano. When we needed a certified oil and grease removal partner the Oil Guyz were there. Fantastic customer service, fast, reliable, quick follow up and very efficient. They make it super easy to leave a GREAT review!”See full review
Alex Camacho
Google review
“I'm an up and coming new food vendor and properly disposing of used frying oil was a difficult task. That is until I contacted the Oil Guyz! There webpage made it easy to setup their free service of oil pickup. Within a few days I had a free container to store the used oil until ready for the free pickup. This service is very convenient and Joey has been very accommodating to answer all my questions and facilitate the process.”See full review
Ujwal Chaudhary
Google review
“Great service from Oil Guyz! They came and picked up my full barrel of used cooking oil completely free of charge. The process was easy, quick, and professional. I really appreciate their excellent customer service and reliable pickup. If you have used cooking oil that needs to be collected, I definitely recommend Oil Guyz. Great company and great people! 👍”See full review
Nicholas Saccoccia
Google review
“Excellent experience with Oil Guyz! They got me on the schedule fast, showed up on time, were very professional, and were in and out in no time! I would absolutely use them again.”
LA BREAKFAST CASITA
Google review
“We’ve had a great experience with Oil Guyz! I submitted a quote request through their website for our restaurant, and Joey reached out to us right away. From our first conversation, he has been extremely helpful, patient, and responsive. Joey really made the whole process easy for us. He was willing to work with our team on the best location for the bin, answered all of our questions, and kept in touch to make sure everything was taken care of. I especially appreciate his follow-through and willingness to help without ever making us feel rushed. Good customer service can be hard to find, and Joey has definitely made a great impression on us. We’re very happy we chose Oil Guyz for our used commercial oil pickup service at LA Breakfast Casita in Azusa, CA. Thank you, Joey, for making the process so smooth and for taking such good care of us. We look forward to working with Oil Guyz for a long time!”See full review
Santa Clara Used Cooking Oil Pickup FAQ
Where Santa Clara Kitchens Can Read the Rules
Santa Clara Water and Sewer Utilities runs the city's FOG Control Program for restaurants. Its page covers the plan check for a new or remodeled kitchen, how the unannounced inspections work and the best practices for food establishments, with guides and posters in English, Spanish and Vietnamese.
The County of Santa Clara Department of Environmental Health handles food safety for the kitchen itself, and the San Jose-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility treats the city's sewage. All of them point the same direction for fryer oil: it stays out of the drain, and the kitchen can show where it went.
Free pickup for your Santa Clara kitchen
Same-business-day callback. First pickup in 3 to 5 business days. No contract, cancel anytime.
Oil Guyz Service Area in Santa Clara
We provide free used cooking oil pickup and recycling to restaurants throughout Santa Clara and surrounding areas.
