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Oil Guyz · Long Beach

Used Cooking Oil Pickup and Recycling for Long Beach Restaurants, From Belmont Shore to Bixby Knolls

Drivers on your schedule. Locked containers to stop theft. Digital manifests before the truck leaves.

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Now on the official list

Listed on the City of Long Beach’s official Waste Cooking Oil Collection Companies list

Oil Guyz is included on the City of Long Beach's official Waste Cooking Oil Collection Companies list, maintained under its FOG Program, alongside established haulers like Baker Commodities and Darling International. This is a public listing, not an endorsement or recommendation.

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  • 5.0 on Google

    From real restaurant reviews

  • CDFA-registered

    Recycled into clean fuel

  • Free locked bin

    Delivered and placed for you

  • Manifest every pickup

    Inspection-ready, 2-year records

Quick Answer

Long Beach restaurants can have used cooking oil picked up free of charge. Oil Guyz splits the city into three zones, from the Cambodia Town fryer houses on Anaheim Street and Belmont Shore's 2nd Street brunch spots to the port-area commissary kitchens, leaving a free locked bin and pumping it on your schedule. Every pickup produces a CDFA-compliant digital manifest (California Title 3, Section 1180), the exact record Long Beach's own city health department looks for. No contract, no fees, emergency overflow response, and oil recycled into biodiesel. That's why Long Beach kitchens choose Oil Guyz. Call (310) 810-2488; a real person answers, 24/7, and first pickups land within 3 to 5 business days.

Long Beach Grease Pickup, Free for Restaurants From Belmont Shore to the Port

Run a brunch kitchen on 2nd Street in Belmont Shore and you know how fast the fryer oil piles up. Weekend crowds mean frying session after frying session, and the used oil container out back fills faster than most services can keep up with. Let it sit too long and you get a sticky mess, a bad smell, and a health inspector who notices before your regulars do.

Oil Guyz picks up your used cooking oil across Long Beach for free. We install a locked, anti-theft container with a spill containment tray so nothing leaks into the alley, and after every stop we email you a CDFA-compliant digital manifest, the same kind of paperwork the Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services expects to see on an inspection. No contract, no fee, no minimum gallons, and a real person answers when you call. Your oil gets recycled into clean biodiesel, never dumped.

Fill out the form on this page to request pickup for your Long Beach kitchen. A real person calls you back the same business day, not next week. Whether you're near the port, in Bixby Knolls, or tucked along Pine Avenue downtown, most Long Beach kitchens land on a dependable route within the week. Get started now and stop worrying about where the oil goes.

Used Cooking Oil Recycling, the Way Long Beach Kitchens Want It Run

Long Beach packs more culinary diversity per square mile than almost any city in LA County. The Cambodian restaurants along Anaheim Street form one of the largest Cambodian food corridors outside of Phnom Penh. Add the brunch spots on 2nd Street in Belmont Shore, the craft breweries in the East Village Arts District, and the seafood houses near the waterfront, and you have a city where every type of kitchen needs a grease management plan that actually works.

The Port of Long Beach drives a massive secondary food economy. The truck stops, commissary kitchens, and worker cafeterias surrounding the port generate consistent oil volumes around the clock. These facilities operate on tight schedules dictated by shipping container throughput, and a missed pickup can mean grease overflow during peak dock hours, exactly when an inspection is likeliest to land.

Our Long Beach routes are split into three zones: the downtown and waterfront corridor, the central neighborhoods from Wrigley to Traffic Circle, and the eastern stretch from Belmont Shore through Marina Pacifica. This structure lets us keep arrival windows tight even in a city where traffic patterns shift dramatically between port hours and beach traffic.

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Cooking Oil Disposal & Health Department Compliance in Long Beach

Long Beach operates its own city health department, separate from LA County, which means restaurant inspections follow a local protocol that can differ from what operators experience elsewhere in the region. The Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services conducts unannounced inspections with specific attention to grease trap maintenance and outdoor oil storage conditions. Restaurants in the downtown Entertainment District and along the waterfront face additional scrutiny during major events like the Grand Prix and Long Beach Pride. A documented pickup schedule with digital manifests is one of the simplest ways to demonstrate compliance during these inspections without pulling staff away from service to dig through paper records.

Long Beach's Grease Management Program, Decoded

Long Beach is one of the few California cities with its own health department, and that department runs the Grease Management Program that inspects how kitchens handle fats, oils, and grease. The same department publishes the official list of waste cooking oil collection companies, updated annually, and Oil Guyz is on it.

What that means day to day: your grease equipment gets looked at by city inspectors who also know exactly which collectors are legitimate. Keeping fryer oil in a locked container and holding a digital manifest for every pickup answers both halves of their question, where the oil is and where it went.

What Your Long Beach Restaurant or Commercial Kitchen Gets

  • Three-zone routing covers downtown, central, and east Long Beach
  • Port-adjacent restaurants served on schedules aligned with dock operations
  • Free sealed containers with spill containment trays included
  • Digital manifests compatible with Long Beach Health Department audits
  • Flexible scheduling for event-driven volume spikes during Grand Prix week
  • Extra-capacity overflow pickups for the deep-fry-heavy Cambodia Town kitchens on Anaheim Street

What kitchens say about Oil Guyz

Verbatim Google reviews from the restaurants we serve. On time, genuinely free, and the compliance paperwork is always handled.

5.0on Google
Kengo Kido, Google reviewer

Kengo Kido

Google review

5.0
“Joey took care of our needs quickly, efficiently and professionally. I highly reccoemnd his service to anyone!”
Brenda Wu, Google reviewer

Brenda Wu

Google review

5.0
“Prompt response from Joey. Great service with problem solving. Highly recommended!”
Camille Bamford, Google reviewer

Camille Bamford

Google review

5.0
“Fast and great to work with!”
John Kim, Google reviewer

John Kim

Google review

5.0
“Fast efficient service”
Olivia Valdivia, Google reviewer

Olivia Valdivia

Google review

5.0
“Oil Guyz are A+++!! We had 14 containers of used frying oil from our little league snack bar. They helped us on our last day to meet and pick up our containers. They made it easy, and we will be looking to use them for our next season!! Thanks Joey!!”
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Long Beach Used Cooking Oil Pickup FAQ

Free means free in Long Beach: no pickup charge, no rental on the locked collection bin, no fuel surcharge, and no contract or minimum volume tying you down. We make our money on the recycled oil itself, so the service costs your kitchen nothing whether you run a small brunch spot on 2nd Street or a high-volume fryer line in Cambodia Town. The bin, the scheduled route, and the digital manifest after every visit are all included. If another hauler is quoting monthly fees or equipment rental for cooking oil collection, you are being billed for something we provide at no cost.
Storage takes almost no effort. Pour cooled oil straight into the locked collection bin we place at your location and close the lid. Do not water it down, and try to keep food scraps and large solids out, since cleaner oil is easier to recycle. Let hot oil cool fully before transferring so nobody gets burned and the bin stays intact. You never need to filter or strain it for us. If your kitchen in Belmont Shore or Bixby Knolls is tight on back-of-house space, we will help position the bin where your team can reach it without crossing the line during service.
Yes, and switching is the most common reason kitchens call us. Because there is no contract and no minimum, you can leave a hauler that ghosts you and start with us right away. We will set a real route schedule, place a free locked bin, and size it to your actual output so a heavy fryer week in Downtown or near Traffic Circle does not leave you overflowing. A real person answers the phone, so you are not stuck leaving voicemails when a bin fills early. Most restaurants are fully switched over within a few days of that first call.
Long Beach runs its own city health department, separate from LA County, so inspectors here follow local protocol when they check grease management. What they want is documentation, and the service produces it automatically: every pickup generates a CDFA-compliant digital manifest with a documented chain of custody to a licensed renderer, and two years of records stay on file for you to pull on the spot. The city publishes its FOG requirements through the grease management program, so between your manifest history and the program guidance, a grease question during an inspection has a one-minute answer.
No on both counts. Pouring grease down a drain causes the fat, oil, and grease blockages that the Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services and the city's water quality program watch for, and it can trigger violations plus expensive sewer backups in older Downtown and Wrigley plumbing. Tossing liquid oil in the trash invites leaks, pests, and citations. Used cooking oil is not classic hazardous waste, but it does have to be recycled through a proper collector. Our free scheduled pickup keeps it out of your drains and dumpster entirely, with a manifest documenting every gallon.
Yes. Downtown Long Beach is on an established weekly route covering Pine Avenue, the Promenade, the Pike Outlets area, and the East Village Arts District. Drivers on the route know the downtown grid, including the one-way streets and the parking rules that shift during events, and pickups are timed so the stop does not collide with your service hours. Many downtown restaurants have limited back-of-house space, so we work with your team to position the container where it is actually reachable. If you share alley access with other tenants, we coordinate arrival timing so the pickup does not stack up behind another vendor's delivery.
Absolutely. Cambodia Town along Anaheim Street between Junipero and Cherry is one of our established route corridors in Long Beach. Many Cambodian restaurants in this area do heavy deep-frying and produce higher-than-average oil volumes relative to their square footage, so we account for that during container sizing rather than leaving you with an undersized bin that overflows between pickups. Drivers on the route see these kitchens week after week, and pickup timing is scheduled around the lunch-to-dinner transition when the kitchen is quietest. If your output climbs, we upsize the bin and tighten the frequency instead of waiting for a problem to show up behind the building.
Port-adjacent restaurants and commissary kitchens run on schedules set by ship arrivals and dock shifts rather than typical meal times, so we build the port-area stops around those patterns and confirm a pickup window that lands during actual kitchen downtime instead of the early-morning rush. Facilities near the port also tend to need more capacity because of the concentration of workers in the area, so we provide up to 300-gallon sealed bins for high-output kitchens and can schedule multiple pickups per week when volume warrants it. If your facility has its own access requirements, we work through those details with you during onboarding so pickup day stays uneventful.
No separate city permit is required. Used cooking oil transport in California is governed by the CDFA Inedible Kitchen Grease program, and that state framework covers Long Beach the same as every other city. What Long Beach adds is its own health department with inspection authority over grease practices at food facilities, and inspectors there care about proof, not promises. The proof is the manifest: every pickup is documented with a CDFA-compliant digital manifest carrying the license details the program requires, the oil goes to a licensed renderer, and records are kept for two years. Your restaurant receives a manifest after each service for its compliance file.
Oil Guyz offers free, no-contract used cooking oil pickup for restaurants across Long Beach, and it's listed on the City of Long Beach's official Waste Cooking Oil Collection Companies list page alongside established haulers like Baker Commodities and Darling International. Every pickup is documented with a CDFA-compliant manifest naming the licensed renderer destination, the exact record health inspectors ask busy Cambodia Town and waterfront kitchens to produce.

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Oil Guyz Service Area in Long Beach

We provide free used cooking oil pickup and recycling to restaurants throughout Long Beach and surrounding areas.

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