Used Cooking Oil Pickup and Disposal, City of Los Angeles Restaurants

Kitchens inside Los Angeles city limits carry a grease burden most cities never see: a LASAN Industrial Wastewater Permit with its own inspector, an LA County letter grade in the window, and an alley in Koreatown or Downtown shared with lofts, valet stands and produce trucks where an open oil drum draws pests, scavengers and a note on the next report.

Oil Guyz runs used cooking oil pickup for City of Los Angeles restaurants at no charge, with loops through Koreatown, Downtown and the Arts District, Hollywood, the Westside, the Valley along Ventura Boulevard and San Pedro at the harbor. Each kitchen gets a free locked bin sized to its alley or rear pad, a fixed pickup day, and a CDFA-compliant digital manifest after every stop for the LASAN FOG inspector and the county health inspector. No contract, no fee, no minimum.

Fill out the form on this page to request pickup for your Los Angeles kitchen. A real person calls you back the same business day to confirm your container size, your alley access and your first pickup, and most City of Los Angeles restaurants land on a dependable loop within the week.

Oil Guyz treats Koreatown as the densest stop on any Los Angeles route. According to the UCLA Labor Center and KIWA (2023), Koreatown holds 704 restaurants and eating places employing nearly 9,700 workers inside roughly two square miles, and the tofu houses, BBQ counters and fried chicken spots along Western, Vermont, Olympic and 6th Street fill a grease container faster than almost any other neighborhood in the City of Los Angeles. Those kitchens share alleys with apartment loading zones and close at two or three in the morning, so the bin has to be locked, compact and pumped before the lunch rush.

Downtown Los Angeles gives Oil Guyz a different problem: access, not volume. Grand Central Market vendors on Broadway, the Arts District kitchens along Traction Avenue and 3rd Street, Little Tokyo on 1st and 2nd, Chinatown on Broadway and Hill, and the Fashion District lunch counters all share alleys with residential lofts, valet stands and delivery trucks, and street parking is restricted through business hours. East of the river, Boyle Heights taquerias on Cesar Chavez Avenue and Highland Park kitchens on York Boulevard have more room but still keep the bin behind a locked gate. Oil Guyz times those Los Angeles stops to the hour the truck can actually reach the door.

Oil Guyz runs the rest of the City of Los Angeles as separate loops rather than one citywide schedule. Hollywood and the Fairfax and Melrose blocks get mid-morning stops after the overnight diner and bar shifts clear the alley. Westwood, Pico-Robertson, Sawtelle Japantown and Venice run on a Westside loop with compact caddies for kitchens that have no rear pad. Ventura Boulevard from Studio City through Sherman Oaks and Encino, plus Van Nuys Boulevard, form the Valley loop, and San Pedro and Wilmington kitchens near the port form the Harbor loop. Every loop uses the same free locked bin, the same CDFA-compliant digital manifest and the same Los Angeles line, (310) 810-2488.