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Free Used Cooking Oil Pickup Throughout the Inland Empire

Oil Guyz collects used cooking oil from restaurants across the Inland Empire — Riverside, San Bernardino, Ontario, Corona, Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga, Moreno Valley, Chino, Murrieta, Temecula and the surrounding cities — for recycling into biodiesel feedstock. CDFA-compliant chain of custody on every pickup.

Used cooking oil collection truck on a Riverside service route in the Inland Empire

Free Used Cooking Oil Pickup for Inland Empire Restaurants

If you run a restaurant in the Inland Empire — a taqueria on Magnolia Avenue in Riverside, a barbecue smokehouse in Fontana, a Vietnamese pho shop in Ontario, a Korean BBQ in Chino, a steakhouse in Temecula wine country, a chain restaurant inside the Ontario Mills mall food court, a brewery kitchen in downtown Riverside, a Mexican grill in Moreno Valley, a college-town sushi spot near UC Riverside, an Italian kitchen along Foothill Boulevard in Rancho Cucamonga — used cooking oil is one of those operational problems that gets ignored until it cannot be ignored anymore. The container in the back lot fills up between scheduled pickups, the local hauler who showed up reliably for the first three months stops returning calls, the manifest you needed for last quarter’s compliance review never made it into your filing cabinet, and then a Riverside County DEH inspector or San Bernardino County environmental health officer asks for your last six pickup records and you realize you have nothing on paper. Oil Guyz takes that problem permanently off your plate. We provide free scheduled used cooking oil pickup for restaurants across the entire Inland Empire — Riverside County and San Bernardino County, from Ontario and Chino in the western IE through Riverside, Moreno Valley, and Corona in the central corridor, out to the desert edges of Temecula, Murrieta, and Hemet in the south, and up through Rancho Cucamonga, Upland, Fontana, and Redlands along the foothills — with no contract, no monthly fee, and no per-pickup charge.

When you sign up, we drop off a sealed steel container sized to your kitchen — a 50-gallon drum for a small breakfast cafe or coffee shop, a 100-gallon container for a mid-volume taqueria or family restaurant, a 250-gallon lockable tank for a high-volume operation like a Korean BBQ in Chino, a fried-chicken counter along Foothill Boulevard, a brewery kitchen in downtown Riverside, or a mall food court anchor at Ontario Mills or Tyler Galleria. The container is placed where your kitchen currently stores oil — beside the grease trap, in the back alley, behind your enclosed dumpster gate, 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 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 Riverside County DEH, San Bernardino County environmental health, the City of Ontario industrial waste program, or your local health inspector asks for documentation, you forward the email and you are done.

All 14 Cities in Inland Empire

ChinoChino HillsCoronaFontanaHemetMoreno ValleyMurrietaOntarioRancho CucamongaRedlandsRiversideSan BernardinoTemeculaUpland

Inland Empire local line:

(909) 500-2488

Oil Guyz Service Area in Inland Empire County

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, we serve restaurants throughout Riverside County and San Bernardino County — the full Inland Empire footprint. Our active service area covers Riverside, San Bernardino, Ontario, Corona, Fontana, Moreno Valley, Rancho Cucamonga, Chino, Chino Hills, Murrieta, Temecula, Hemet, Redlands, and Upland as the anchor cities, with surrounding incorporated towns picked up on the same route network. Whether your restaurant is in a strip center along Magnolia Avenue in Riverside, inside the Ontario Mills food court, in the brewery district of downtown Riverside, along Foothill Boulevard in Rancho Cucamonga, in the Temecula wine country, or in any of the dozens of smaller IE communities, we have a truck on a regular route through your area. Sign-up takes less than a minute and most IE restaurants are on a scheduled route within one week.
Yes — completely free, with no contract and no per-pickup charge. We make our revenue on the back end by recycling your used cooking oil into renewable biodiesel feedstock, which means your kitchen waste has real commodity value. Instead of paying a hauler to remove it, your restaurant gets professional, CDFA-licensed service at zero cost. The sealed steel container is free, the scheduled pickups are free, the digital manifest after every pickup is free, and the emergency overflow response is free. Many IE 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 multi-unit operators, hospital cafeterias, university food service contracts, or commissary kitchens — we also offer a commodity-based rebate. Ask about it when you sign up if your volume qualifies.
Most IE restaurants are added to a route within one week of signing up. Because we already run daily routes throughout both Riverside and San Bernardino counties, adding a new stop is straightforward. After you submit the signup form or call our office, 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 the high-density IE corridors — downtown Riverside, central Corona, the Ontario Mills area, the 60/91 freeway interchange zone, central Rancho Cucamonga — are often added within one to two business days. Locations farther out in Temecula, Hemet, or the high-desert edges of the IE may take up to one week depending on the nearest route. 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 all of Riverside County and San Bernardino County. 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 so you always have proof of compliant disposal on file. We also carry full commercial auto and general liability insurance on every truck, and Riverside County DEH and San Bernardino County environmental health both accept our digital manifests as compliance documentation. Drivers on our IE routes carry a copy of our license in the truck cab, and you can verify our license status directly with CDFA at any time.
Most restaurants across the Inland Empire qualify for free used cooking oil pickup, regardless of cuisine, size, or how much oil you go through. We pick up from independent neighborhood spots, multi-location chains, food trucks with a commissary kitchen, hotel restaurants, brewery taprooms, mall food court anchors, and full-service catering operations. The cuisines that produce the most fryer oil in the IE — carne asada and birria spots across Riverside, Moreno Valley, and Ontario, Korean BBQ along Foothill Boulevard in Chino and Rancho Cucamonga, fried chicken counters and chain restaurants at the Ontario Mills food court, Vietnamese pho shops along Magnolia Avenue, brewery kitchens in downtown Riverside and Rancho Cucamonga’s Inland Empire Brewing Co. corridor, steakhouses and wine-country restaurants in Temecula, family kitchens across Hemet, Redlands, and Upland — all qualify. There is no minimum volume to start service. Kitchens producing less than 30 gallons monthly get scheduled on a monthly cadence rather than weekly, but the service stays free either way. Restaurants in seasonal IE zones like the Temecula wine country (which surges in spring and fall) and the Ontario Convention Center area (which spikes during trade shows) 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’s oil volume. Small breakfast cafes and coffee shops typically get a 50-gallon drum. Mid-volume operations like family taquerias, sushi counters, or pho shops usually get a 100-gallon container. High-volume fryer-heavy operations — Korean BBQ houses along Foothill Boulevard in Chino, fried chicken counters at the Ontario Mills food court, brewery kitchens in downtown Riverside, steakhouses in Temecula wine country — get our 250-gallon lockable tank. The container is placed wherever you currently store oil behind your kitchen, and it stays in that exact spot permanently. Your line cooks pour fryer oil directly into the container after closing the fryers. On every scheduled pickup, the driver pumps the oil out right where it sits and leaves your container empty for the next shift. We never swap or exchange containers. If your container is damaged, dented, scratched, or needs cleaning at any point, we replace it at no charge. There is no rental fee, no deposit, and no removal fee if you ever cancel service. The container is yours to keep using for as long as we serve your restaurant.
The Inland Empire used cooking oil collection market includes large national haulers, regional CA-licensed operators, and a layer of unlicensed underground operators who solicit IE restaurants in cash and disappear after a few months. Oil Guyz is a California-licensed operation running daily routes throughout Riverside County and San Bernardino County, 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 IE 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 manifests are emailed automatically after every pickup. No chasing paperwork weeks later. Drivers on our IE 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. Most of our IE customers find us after their previous hauler stopped showing up, started skipping pickups, started adding mystery fees to monthly invoices, or after they discovered the local underground operator who pumped their barrel last month was unlicensed and gave them no manifest at all.
Your used cooking oil leaves your Inland Empire 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 Riverside County DEH, San Bernardino County environmental health, the City of Ontario industrial waste program, 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 brewery sustainability stories, restaurant marketing materials, or corporate ESG records — we can pull that report for any time period on request. Biodiesel made from IE restaurant cooking oil powers commercial vehicles across Southern California — including some of the same trucks running our IE collection routes.

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