Restaurant cleaning covers the dining room, restrooms, entry and back-of-house floors that a kitchen team has neither the time nor the equipment for after close. Riverstone cleans restaurants and cafés across Fairfax, VA and Northern Virginia on overnight schedules built around service. Request a free walkthrough or see how our janitorial program is structured.
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Food-contact surfaces, sanitizer buckets and equipment breakdown belong to your kitchen staff under your food safety program, and no contractor should be touching them. Non-food-contact surfaces are where an outside crew earns its place. Virginia's Food Regulations require those surfaces be kept free of accumulated dust, dirt, food residue and debris.
Quarry tile holds grease in its grout lines, and that film is exactly what makes a back-of-house floor slippery for the people working fastest on it. Degreaser and a deck brush lift what a mop only spreads. Floor drains get flushed, and rubber mats are taken outside, washed and stood to dry rather than hosed in place.
Guests notice booth seams, table pedestals, chair legs, window sills and light fixtures long before they notice the floor. These are detailed on rotation so no single area drifts for months while the visible surfaces stay presentable.
A dirty restroom is one of the quickest ways for a good meal to end up in a bad review. Fixtures, partitions, floors and dispensers are serviced on a documented schedule, with frequency set by covers served rather than a generic template.
NFPA 96 requires kitchen exhaust systems to be inspected by properly trained, qualified and certified personnel, and where a vent cleaning service is used, a certificate showing the date of the inspection or cleaning must be kept on the premises. Frequencies run monthly for solid-fuel cooking, quarterly for high-volume kitchens running 12 to 24 hours a day, semiannually for moderate volume and annually for low volume. We do not perform hood and duct cleaning. We will tell you when yours is coming due rather than letting it quietly slide.
A coffee shop's problem is milk residue, syrup and sugar on counters and under equipment, plus a front-of-house floor tracked by every customer. A full-service kitchen's problem is grease at volume. The same crew handles both, but the products, equipment and time allowed differ, and a scope that ignores the distinction will underserve one of them.
Most of our restaurant clients are cleaned after close or before open, with crews holding keys and alarm codes under a documented access procedure. A team that already knows your layout works faster in the narrow hours you can spare.