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Oil Guyz · Malibu

Used Cooking Oil Pickup From Cross Creek to Point Dume — Malibu Restaurants Run Cleaner

Serving roughly 150 restaurants along the PCH coastal corridor from the Malibu Country Mart to Trancas Country Market. Free service, no contracts, on-time every week.

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Used Cooking Oil Pickup in Malibu

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

Malibu Restaurants Get Used Cooking Oil Pickup Free

Looking for used cooking oil pickup, recycling, disposal, or fryer oil collection near you in Malibu? 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 Malibu Restaurants Simplify Used Cooking Oil Pickup

Malibu stretches 21 miles along the Pacific Coast Highway and is one of the most distinctive restaurant markets in Los Angeles County, with chef-driven independents, seafood houses, beach club kitchens, and celebrity-driven dining rooms concentrated in tight clusters along PCH between the Topanga line and the Ventura County border. The Cross Creek and Malibu Country Mart core alone holds more than 30 food establishments, ranging from the sushi counters and bakeries at the Country Mart to the patio seafood houses at the Malibu Lumber Yard and Malibu Village, and the operators here serve a mix of locals, weekend visitors from the city, and a steady stream of production catering tied to the studios using Malibu as a location.

Beyond Cross Creek, the restaurant base spreads down PCH in distinct coastal clusters. The Carbon Beach and Las Flores Canyon stretch east of the pier hosts long-running classics like Nobu Malibu, Soho House Malibu, and a lineup of patio kitchens that put up significant fryer and grill volume during summer evenings. Point Dume and the Zuma Beach corridor anchor a second cluster around Heathercliff Road and the Point Dume Village center, with cafes, gastropubs, and family kitchens that drive heavy weekend brunch and dinner traffic. Trancas Country Market at the north end of town runs another tight cluster of restaurants serving the western Malibu and Malibu West neighborhoods, and the Pepperdine University catering operations on the bluff add a campus-driven volume layer. Many of these kitchens are working in compact coastal footprints with limited back-of-house space, no traditional alley access, and direct exposure to ocean weather, so a hauler that respects narrow PCH pull-offs and seasonal storm windows is essential.

Our Malibu route covers everything from the Topanga line east of the pier out to the Ventura County border at Leo Carrillo, including Cross Creek and Malibu Country Mart, the Malibu Lumber Yard and Malibu Village, the Carbon Beach and Las Flores stretches, Point Dume Village, the Zuma Beach corridor, Trancas Country Market, the Big Rock and Malibu Colony areas, and the Pepperdine campus kitchens above PCH. We schedule around your kitchen's busiest hours so used cooking oil pickup never interrupts service, and our drivers know the access constraints around the PCH pull-offs, the Cross Creek loading area, the Point Dume Village back lots, and the seasonal winter storm closures that can isolate sections of the coast.

Aerial view of Malibu restaurant district at golden hour

Cooking Oil Compliance for Malibu Commercial Kitchens

Malibu sits inside the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health jurisdiction, and routine inspections of every food facility from Cross Creek to Trancas are conducted by LA County environmental health specialists. The coastal water quality picture in Malibu is unusually sensitive — the Surfrider Foundation, Heal the Bay, and the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board all monitor PCH discharges, and the city itself runs an aggressive Civic Center wastewater treatment facility for the restaurant cluster on Cross Creek that was built explicitly to keep cooking oil and grease out of Malibu Creek and the Surfrider Beach watershed. Restaurants in unsewered coastal areas using onsite wastewater treatment systems are under even tighter rules from the city of Malibu's Environmental Sustainability Department. Inspectors regularly check for documented used cooking oil disposal and any sign of oil discharge into storm drains that lead directly into the surf zone, and a single overflow event near the beach can trigger immediate enforcement. Having a reliable scheduled pickup with digital manifests on file gives your kitchen instant documentation when an LA County DPH sanitarian, a city Environmental Sustainability inspector, or a Regional Water Board investigator arrives, and our CDFA Inedible Kitchen Grease transporter license, manifest paperwork, and route reliability are designed to slot directly into the unusually strict coastal recordkeeping Malibu expects.

What Your Malibu Restaurant or Commercial Kitchen Gets

  • Scheduled weekly or biweekly pickup along the PCH coastal corridor
  • Free sealed containers with anti-theft locking mechanism rated for salt air and storm exposure
  • Digital manifests emailed after every pickup for LA County DPH and City of Malibu records
  • Coverage from the Topanga line and Cross Creek to Point Dume, Trancas, and Leo Carrillo
  • Priority routing during summer peak season and winter storm windows on PCH
  • Emergency overflow response within 4 hours including coastal slide and closure detours

Neighborhoods We Serve in Malibu

Cross CreekMalibu Country MartMalibu Lumber YardMalibu VillageCivic CenterCarbon BeachLas Flores CanyonBig RockMalibu ColonyPoint DumeZuma BeachTrancas Country MarketMalibu WestPepperdine BluffLeo Carrillo

Restaurant & Commercial Kitchen Services in Malibu

We serve every Malibu 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 Malibu Restaurants Say

Cross Creek loading is brutal during weekend service and most haulers will not come anywhere near us before 11 am or after the lunch rush. Their driver knows our window and is in and out before we open the patio. Manifest is in my email by the time service starts.
Dr James Park at Marchetti Coastal Kitchen, Cross Creek

Dr James Park

Marchetti Coastal Kitchen, Cross Creek

We are tucked behind Point Dume Village and the back lot is shared with a yoga studio and a market. The driver here actually respects the parking and the schedule. After the last winter storm closed PCH for two days they rerouted through Kanan-Dume and still made our pickup.
Miguel Santos at Point Dume Cafe, Heathercliff Road

Miguel Santos

Point Dume Cafe, Heathercliff Road

Storm drain compliance up here is no joke and we had a Regional Water Board inspector ask for our oil disposal records out of nowhere. I pulled twelve months of digital manifests on my phone right at the counter. Inspector closed the visit in five minutes.
Talin K. at Trancas Seafood Bar, Trancas Country Market

Talin K.

Trancas Seafood Bar, Trancas Country Market

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Malibu Used Cooking Oil Pickup FAQ

Scheduling used cooking oil pickup in Malibu 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 PCH coastal route within two hours of your request. Most Malibu restaurants are added to a route within one week, whether you are in the Cross Creek and Malibu Country Mart cluster, at a patio seafood house along Carbon Beach, in Point Dume Village, at Trancas Country Market, or up on the Pepperdine bluff. We coordinate pickup timing around your kitchen schedule so the process never interrupts service, and our drivers know how to work around the narrow PCH pull-offs, the Cross Creek loading area, the Point Dume Village back lots, and the seasonal winter storm closures that can detour the coast highway. 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.
Our Malibu service area covers the entire 21-mile city length along PCH from the Topanga line at the east end to Leo Carrillo State Beach at the Ventura County border. We service restaurants at Cross Creek and the Malibu Country Mart, the Malibu Lumber Yard and Malibu Village, the Civic Center cluster around city hall, the Carbon Beach and Las Flores Canyon patio kitchens, Big Rock, Malibu Colony, Point Dume Village along Heathercliff Road and Westward Beach Road, the Zuma Beach concession kitchens, Trancas Country Market, the Malibu West residential commercial cluster, the Pepperdine University catering operations above PCH, and the kitchens out near Decker Canyon, Encinal Canyon, and Leo Carrillo. Catering kitchens supporting film and TV production using Malibu as a location are welcome on the route, as are ghost kitchens, school cafeterias across the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, beach club dining rooms, and event venues. If you are inside the Malibu city limits, we cover you.
Our average emergency response time for Malibu restaurants is under four hours during business hours and under six hours during off-peak times, with the caveat that winter storm closures and PCH slide events can extend response windows. Malibu is accessible from PCH east through Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica, west through Oxnard, and inland through Kanan-Dume Road, Malibu Canyon Road, and Topanga Canyon Boulevard, which gives our trucks multiple route options when a section of the coast highway is closed. 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 using the cleanest open access. If you are at Cross Creek, along Carbon Beach, in Point Dume Village, or at Trancas, you are typically on the next available run that day. Emergency pickups include the same digital manifest documentation as scheduled service, and given Malibu's coastal water quality sensitivity, we treat any container near a storm drain or the surf zone as the highest containment priority. If a container is actively overflowing, we prioritize containment on arrival before beginning the pumping process, which protects you from a city of Malibu Environmental Sustainability citation, an LA Regional Water Quality Control Board investigation, or an LA County DPH 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, by the City of Malibu Environmental Sustainability Department, and by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board that monitors the Malibu Creek and Surfrider Beach watersheds. 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 Malibu 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 LA County DPH, the city, or the Regional Water Board request proof. The oil we collect goes to permitted rendering and biodiesel feedstock processors, never to landfill, the storm drain, or the surf zone. We also carry comprehensive general liability and commercial vehicle insurance as required by the state, the county, and the city.

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

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