Restaurant Oil Collection — Free Pickup Across Southern California

Restaurant oil collection is free for the vast majority of Southern California kitchens. We do not invoice your restaurant for the pickup, the manifest, or the container. Used cooking oil is recycled into biodiesel and yellow grease feedstock, and the value of that downstream commodity covers the cost of running the route. You receive a free pickup, a free locked container, free digital manifests, and free seven-year record retention. The only services we charge for are grease trap cleaning and emergency overflow response, and both are quoted up front before any work. There is no minimum volume, no setup fee, no fuel surcharge, and no contract — if your kitchen is in our Orange County, Los Angeles, or San Diego service zone, the oil collection itself is free.

Most new restaurants are fully on a pickup route inside three to five business days. The clock starts the moment we receive your address, fryer count, and preferred pickup day. We confirm the kitchen on a quick call, recommend a container size, deliver and place the locked bin, and run your first pickup on the next available route slot. If your kitchen is in an urgent situation — an overflowing bin from a previous hauler who stopped showing up, for example — we can compress that timeline to 24 to 48 hours. Same-week onboarding is the norm; same-day is possible during high-priority cases.

No — both go into the same container and the same pickup. Fryer oil and used cooking oil are the same regulated waste stream in California (CDFA classifies both as Inedible Kitchen Grease). The container we drop at your kitchen handles both. If your restaurant runs flat-top griddles, deep fryers, woks, or even pressure fryers, the rendered oil all goes into the locked bin and gets pulled on your scheduled route. There is no need to separate by fryer type, oil age, or filter status — we handle it downstream at the rendering facility.

Yes — and this is one of the most common requests we get from multi-unit operators. Every restaurant location in your group rolls up into a single account with a single dashboard, single point of contact, and consolidated reporting. Each location gets its own container, schedule, and route driver, but you only manage one relationship. Adding a new restaurant location takes about two minutes — give us the address, the fryer count, and your preferred pickup day and we drop a container and start collection on the next available route. Many of our multi-location accounts started with one restaurant and added the rest as they expanded.

Our restaurant oil collection service covers Orange County, Los Angeles County, and San Diego County. That includes 93 cities — from Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Tustin, and Irvine in Orange County, to Long Beach, Pasadena, Burbank, Glendale, Santa Monica, and downtown LA in Los Angeles County, to San Diego, Chula Vista, Carlsbad, Oceanside, and Escondido in San Diego County. If your restaurant is anywhere in those three counties, we run a regular route past your kitchen. If you are outside the three-county service zone but interested in collection, give us a call — we evaluate expansion routes quarterly and can sometimes pick up bordering cities on existing routes.

Overflows are the most common reason restaurants switch providers, so we treat them as a service failure on our side and respond accordingly. Every account gets priority access to our emergency response line — call any time, including weekends and holidays, and we dispatch a driver within four hours to pump the container, clean the spill area, and reset your kitchen. If overflows happen more than once, our dispatch team automatically pulls your pickup forward on the schedule and increases container size or pickup frequency at no charge. There is no penalty, no surcharge, and no expectation that your kitchen pay extra for a service failure that should not have happened.