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Oil Guyz · Lomita

Used Cooking Oil Pickup From Pacific Coast Highway to Narbonne Avenue — Lomita Restaurants Run Cleaner

Serving roughly 120 restaurants along Pacific Coast Highway, Narbonne Avenue, Lomita Boulevard, and Western Avenue. Free service, no contracts, on-time every week.

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Used Cooking Oil Pickup in Lomita

Free for restaurants. Scheduled weekly. CDFA-licensed. Pickup in Lomita starts within a week.

Lomita Restaurants Get Used Cooking Oil Pickup Free

Looking for used cooking oil pickup, recycling, disposal, or fryer oil collection near you in Lomita? Our restaurant service team handles all four — free, scheduled, and with compliance manifests on every pickup — for restaurants, commercial kitchens, hotel kitchens, ghost kitchens, and food service operators across Los Angeles. No contracts, no hidden fees, no missed restaurant pickups.

How Lomita Restaurants Simplify Used Cooking Oil Pickup

Lomita is one of the smallest cities by area in Los Angeles County, sitting between Torrance, Harbor City, the Palos Verdes Peninsula, and the Harbor Gateway corridor. Despite covering less than two square miles, the city packs roughly 120 food service kitchens into four main corridors. Pacific Coast Highway runs east to west across the city's northern edge and anchors the densest restaurant strip, with classic SoCal diners, family-owned Mexican kitchens, Korean barbecue, sushi counters, and the auto-service-adjacent eateries that have served the corridor for decades. Narbonne Avenue runs north to south through the city's commercial core and holds the neighborhood diners, pizzerias, donut shops, and the prepared-food counters that anchor daily breakfast and lunch service. Lomita Boulevard and Western Avenue round out the city's restaurant footprint with strip-plaza kitchens, taco stands, and the smaller independent operators serving residential Lomita.

Service in Lomita reflects the city's compact, working-character feel. The PCH restaurant strip has classic Caltrans-managed shoulder access, with rear service alleys and shared trash enclosures behind buildings that have stood since the 1950s. Narbonne Avenue has a tight downtown grid with limited rear apron parking and a steady flow of competing delivery trucks. The Lomita Railroad Museum and the surrounding civic blocks bring weekend visitor traffic that affects loading windows, especially Saturday mornings. Our drivers run the South Bay daily and know the rear access patterns along PCH, the loading windows on Narbonne, and the strip-plaza trash enclosure protocols on Lomita Boulevard and Western Avenue.

Our Lomita route covers the full Pacific Coast Highway corridor across the city, the Narbonne Avenue commercial core, Lomita Boulevard and Eshelman Avenue, the Western Avenue plazas, and the smaller cluster around the Lomita Railroad Museum and Lomita Park. We coordinate pickup timing around your kitchen's busiest service so used cooking oil collection never interrupts the lunch rush, and we work the PCH rear-of-house access the way longtime Lomita operators expect it worked.

Aerial view of Lomita restaurant district at golden hour

Cooking Oil Compliance for Lomita Commercial Kitchens

Lomita sits inside the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts service area and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health's restaurant inspection program, and the city's stormwater drains feed into the Machado Lake watershed at Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park and ultimately into the Los Angeles Harbor. The Regional Water Quality Control Board treats Machado Lake as a sensitive water body, and FOG enforcement in the surrounding cities reflects that. Inspectors routinely cite operators on the Pacific Coast Highway and Narbonne Avenue corridors for unsealed exterior containers, missing manifests, and shared trash enclosures where used cooking oil mixes with general kitchen waste. Having a reliable scheduled pickup with digital manifests on file gives your kitchen instant documentation when a County Health sanitarian or a city public works staffer shows up. Our CDFA Inedible Kitchen Grease transporter license, manifest paperwork, and route reliability are designed to slot directly into the recordkeeping the County and the city expect to see during both routine and complaint-driven inspections.

What Your Lomita Restaurant or Commercial Kitchen Gets

  • Scheduled weekly or biweekly pickup along established Lomita routes
  • Sealed locking containers for shared rear-of-house enclosures on PCH and Narbonne
  • Digital manifests emailed after every pickup for County Health and city FOG records
  • Coverage from Pacific Coast Highway and Narbonne to Lomita Boulevard and Western
  • Coordination with property management for shared trash enclosure access
  • Emergency overflow response within 4 hours along the PCH corridor

Neighborhoods We Serve in Lomita

Pacific Coast Highway CorridorNarbonne Avenue CorridorLomita Boulevard CorridorWestern Avenue CorridorEshelman AvenueLomita Railroad Museum AreaLomita ParkHarbor City BorderWalteria BorderPalos Verdes Drive North CorridorPennsylvania AvenueCypress Street Plaza

Restaurant & Commercial Kitchen Services in Lomita

We serve every Lomita restaurant, commercial kitchen, and food service operator with free used cooking oil pickup, recycling, disposal, and grease trap cleaning. Whether you run a fast food franchise, a fine dining restaurant, a hotel kitchen, a ghost kitchen, or a catering operation, our Los Angeles route covers your commercial kitchen on a fixed restaurant schedule.

How It Works

Step 1

Request a Pickup

Fill out a 30-second form or call us. No credit card. No commitment.

Step 2

Pickup Day Is Pickup Day

Your scheduled window is locked in. A CDFA-licensed driver completes the pickup, pumps your container empty, and we email your digital manifest the moment the work is logged.

Step 3

Stay Compliant Automatically

Get digital manifests, pickup confirmations, and compliance records — all in your dashboard.

What Lomita Restaurants Say

We have been on PCH for thirty years and our rear alley is always crowded with delivery trucks. Their driver knows our window, slides in, and is gone in fifteen minutes. The previous hauler kept missing us during lunch and we were getting complaints from the building owner.
Sofia Alvarez at Salazar Tacos, Pacific Coast Highway

Sofia Alvarez

Salazar Tacos, Pacific Coast Highway

Narbonne loading windows are tight and the property owner does not want trucks blocking the front. They built our pickup around the morning window and we have not had a complaint since. Manifest in my email every Wednesday before service.
Kevin Nguyen at Narbonne Sushi Bar, Narbonne Avenue

Kevin Nguyen

Narbonne Sushi Bar, Narbonne Avenue

Our plaza has a shared enclosure with four other tenants and other people kept dumping their kitchen waste into our oil container. They installed a real locking container and coordinated the key with property management. Problem solved and the inspector liked the paperwork.
Marco D. at Lomita Boulevard Grill, Lomita Boulevard

Marco D.

Lomita Boulevard Grill, Lomita Boulevard

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Lomita Used Cooking Oil Pickup FAQ

Scheduling used cooking oil pickup in Lomita takes less than a minute. Call us or fill out the request form on this page with your restaurant name, address, and preferred pickup day. We confirm your spot on our established South Bay route within two hours of your request. Most Lomita restaurants are added to a route within one week, whether you are on the Pacific Coast Highway strip, on the Narbonne Avenue commercial core, on a Lomita Boulevard strip plaza, or out along Western Avenue near the Harbor City border. We coordinate pickup timing around your kitchen schedule so the process never interrupts the lunch rush, and our drivers know the rear-of-house access along PCH, the loading windows on Narbonne, and the shared trash enclosure protocols at every Lomita Boulevard and Western plaza. Once scheduled, your pickups happen automatically on the same day each week or every other week, depending on your oil volume and container size. No contracts required and you can adjust your schedule anytime by calling or texting.
Yes. Pacific Coast Highway from the Torrance border east to the Harbor City border is the densest restaurant strip in Lomita and one of our most active South Bay routes. PCH restaurants have classic 1950s-era buildings with rear service alleys, shared trash enclosures, and Caltrans-managed shoulder access that limits how a hauler can stage a truck for pickup. Most haulers either block the front parking apron at peak lunch or skip the stop entirely when the rear alley is congested with delivery trucks. Our drivers run PCH daily, so they know which restaurants share a rear enclosure with a neighboring tenant, which buildings have rear gate codes, and which loading windows the property owner enforces. For shared enclosures we provide a locking container labeled to your kitchen so other tenants and passersby cannot dump waste oil or trash into your container. Every PCH access protocol is captured on our route notes and briefed to every driver.
Our average emergency response time for Lomita restaurants is under four hours during business hours and under six hours during off-peak times. Lomita sits at the center of our South Bay route network, with active routes running through Torrance, Harbor City, the Palos Verdes Peninsula, Carson, and the Harbor Gateway corridor every day. When you call our emergency line, a dispatcher confirms your address and container status immediately, then routes the next available driver as a priority stop. Whether you are on PCH near the Torrance border, on Narbonne in the commercial core, on Lomita Boulevard, or on Western near the Harbor City line, you are typically less than fifteen minutes from a truck already on route. Emergency pickups include the same digital manifest documentation as scheduled service, so your compliance records stay clean even when the call is unplanned. If a container is actively overflowing into a rear alley or shared enclosure, we prioritize containment on arrival before beginning the pumping process, which protects you from a County Health citation and a city public works follow-up inspection.
Yes. We hold a current California Department of Food and Agriculture Inedible Kitchen Grease (CDFA IKG) transporter license, which is the state requirement for any company that picks up, transports, or processes used cooking oil in California. The license is recognized by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and by the city's public works staff who enforce the local FOG control program tied to the Machado Lake watershed and the Harbor drainage. Our CDFA license number is displayed in the footer of every page on this site and on every manifest we issue. Every used cooking oil load we collect in Lomita is documented with a digital manifest that lists pickup address, date, time, gallons collected, and driver name, and we keep that record on file in case County Health, city public works, or a Regional Water Quality Control Board inspector requests proof. The oil we collect goes to permitted rendering and biodiesel feedstock processors, never to landfill or the storm drain. We also carry comprehensive general liability and commercial vehicle insurance as required by the state and the county.

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

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17662 Irvine Blvd STE 20, Tustin, CA 92780, USA

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