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Free Used Cooking Oil Pickup in Los Angeles County

Oil Guyz collects used cooking oil from restaurants across LA County — Downtown to the South Bay — for recycling into biodiesel feedstock. CDFA-compliant chain of custody on every pickup.

Grease collection service truck behind a restaurant in the Los Angeles restaurant district

Free Used Cooking Oil Pickup for Los Angeles Restaurants

If you run a restaurant in Los Angeles — a Korean BBQ in Koreatown, a torta spot in Boyle Heights, a sushi counter in Little Tokyo, a tempura kitchen in Sawtelle, a burger joint in Hollywood, a kosher deli in Pico-Robertson, a brewery kitchen in Highland Park — used cooking oil is one of those parts of the operation that gets handed off to a hauler you barely remember signing up with, and then somewhere along the way it becomes a problem. The hauler stops showing up. Or they show up but skip a week. Or they show up but never send a manifest. Or they show up, send a manifest, and quietly add fees that were not in the original agreement. Meanwhile your container is overflowing behind the kitchen, your kitchen manager is calling the office for the third time this month, and a FOG inspector from LA County Sanitation just asked your assistant manager to produce the last six pickup records. Oil Guyz solves that permanently. We provide free scheduled used cooking oil pickup for restaurants across the entire LA County service area — from Downtown and Koreatown to the San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley, South Bay, and the beach cities — with no contract, no monthly fee, and no per-pickup charge.

When you sign up, we deliver a sealed steel container to the spot behind your kitchen where you currently store oil — beside the grease trap, by the back delivery door, in your alley enclosure — and it stays there permanently. Sizes range from a 50-gallon drum for a small deli or breakfast cafe to a 250-gallon lockable tank for a high-volume operation like a Korean BBQ in Koreatown or a fried-chicken counter on Crenshaw. 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 they pull 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 LA County Sanitation, the City of LA Bureau of Sanitation FOG program, or a health inspector asks for documentation, you forward the email and you are done.

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Oil Guyz Service Area in Los Angeles County

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

Frequently Asked Questions

We cover all of Los Angeles County including the city of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, Torrance, Glendale, Burbank, Santa Monica, and more than 40 additional cities. Our route network spans from the San Gabriel Valley in the east to the beach cities in the west, and from the Foothills down through the South Bay and Gateway Cities. LA County has one of the highest restaurant densities in the country, and we run daily routes throughout the region to ensure every kitchen receives consistent weekly service. No matter where your restaurant is located in LA County, we have a route that passes through your area on a regular schedule.
Yes, our used cooking oil pickup service is completely free for Los Angeles restaurants. There is no monthly fee, no per-pickup charge, and no long-term contract. We make our revenue by recycling the oil into renewable feedstock, which means your waste has real commodity value. Instead of paying a hauler to remove it, you get professional service at zero cost. CDFA-licensed pickups arrive on a consistent schedule, and you receive a digital manifest for your compliance records after every pickup. Many LA restaurants switch to us after learning they have been paying another company for a service that should cost them nothing.
High-volume restaurants in Los Angeles can receive multiple pickups per week based on their output. When you sign up, we assess your average weekly oil volume and assign a pickup frequency that keeps your storage containers from overflowing. Restaurants producing more than 200 gallons per week typically receive two or three scheduled pickups. We also provide appropriately sized storage equipment at no charge so you have the right container capacity between visits. If your volume changes seasonally or after a menu update, just let us know and we will adjust your schedule. Our goal is to make sure you never have to think about your used cooking oil again.
We offer 24/7 emergency grease pickup across Los Angeles County for situations that cannot wait for your next scheduled service. If a storage container is overflowing, a grease trap backs up, or you have an unexpected event that generates a large amount of oil, call our emergency line and a truck will be dispatched to your location as quickly as possible. Emergency pickups are available seven days a week, including holidays. There is no surcharge for emergency calls during normal business hours. After-hours emergency service carries a modest fee that we quote before dispatching so there are never any surprises on your invoice.
Most restaurants across Los Angeles County qualify for free used cooking oil pickup, regardless of cuisine, neighborhood, or volume. We service Korean BBQ houses in Koreatown, sushi counters and tempura kitchens in Little Tokyo and Sawtelle, taco shops and birria spots across East LA and Boyle Heights, Chinese kitchens throughout the San Gabriel Valley from Alhambra to San Gabriel to Monterey Park, kosher fryers in Pico-Robertson and the Fairfax District, fried chicken counters along Crenshaw, gourmet kitchens in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, surf-and-turf restaurants from Malibu through Santa Monica, and family kitchens throughout the San Fernando Valley. We pick up from independents, multi-unit chains, hotel kitchens, hospital and university cafeterias, banquet halls, and event caterers. No minimum volume to qualify — if your kitchen produces under 30 gallons a month we schedule pickups monthly rather than weekly, but the service stays free. Restaurants in seasonal zones like Hollywood Boulevard, Venice Beach, the Sunset Strip, and Universal CityWalk get adjusted pickup frequency for tourist 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 deli or breakfast cafe, a 100-gallon container for a mid-volume taco spot or Italian kitchen, a 250-gallon lockable tank for high-volume fryer operations like Korean BBQ in Koreatown, Chinese restaurants in San Gabriel Valley, or fried chicken counters across Crenshaw and South Central. The container is placed wherever you store oil today — by your grease trap, behind the kitchen door, in your alley enclosure, 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 and ready for the next shift. We never swap or exchange containers. If yours gets damaged, dented, scratched, or needs cleaning at any point, we replace it at no charge. No rental fees, no deposits, no removal charges if you ever decide to cancel. The container belongs to your kitchen for as long as we serve you.
The Los Angeles used cooking oil collection market is crowded — large national haulers like Darling and Mahoney compete with regional outfits, small local operators, and a layer of unlicensed underground haulers who solicit restaurants in cash and disappear. Oil Guyz is positioned differently: a California-licensed operation with daily routes throughout LA 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 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. Our team identifies itself on dispatch so your back-of-house staff knows your scheduled pickup is on property. When you call, you get a person who can pull up your account immediately. Most LA restaurants switch to us after their previous hauler stopped showing up, started skipping weeks, or started adding mystery fees to monthly invoices that were never in the original agreement.
Your used cooking oil leaves your Los Angeles kitchen and goes to a licensed CDFA-registered renderer where it gets cleaned, filtered, and converted into renewable biodiesel fuel or animal feed ingredients. Nothing is dumped, landfilled, or sold to 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 travels with the load. 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 the LA County Sanitation Districts, the City of LA Bureau of Sanitation FOG 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 diverted from the waste stream for sustainability reporting, corporate ESG records, or restaurant marketing materials, we pull that report for any time period on request. Biodiesel made from your used cooking oil powers commercial vehicles across Southern California — including some of the same trucks that picked up your oil in the first place.
Yes. Los Angeles has more food trucks, ghost kitchens, commissary kitchens, and shared-kitchen operations than any other county in California, and we service all of them. Food trucks typically use a smaller portable container kept at the commissary kitchen where they dump oil between shifts. Ghost kitchens and cloud kitchens running multiple brands out of one space get a container sized to combined volume across all the brands. Shared commissary kitchens with rotating tenants get a centrally located container that all the tenants can use, with consolidated digital manifests that satisfy every operator’s compliance records simultaneously. Pickup frequency is adjusted based on actual fill rate — for high-volume commissaries running ten or more food truck tenants, we may schedule pickups twice weekly. For lower-volume ghost kitchens, monthly may be enough. All the same free-service rules apply: no contract, no monthly fee, no per-pickup charge, and a digital manifest after every pickup. We also pick up at production kitchens, catering kitchens, and event caterer commissaries throughout the LA area, including those in Vernon, Commerce, Carson, and Sun Valley.

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