How to Clean Greasy Restaurant Carpet

Bane-Clene’s service company services very few restaurants because they are low-profit, usually cleaned in the middle of the night, choose the lowest bidder, want to pay in 90 days at best and sometimes go out of business before paying!

Our service company does service a few high-end restaurants where cleanliness and appearance are extremely important and the restaurant is willing to pay for good work. Such a restaurant clearly understands that to keep a restaurant carpet looking and smelling good, it must be thoroughly cleaned at least monthly. Unfortunately, most restaurants are not like that.

Steps for cleaning severely soiled, greasy restaurant carpets, including Chinese restaurants:

1. First, remove any walk-off mats and any other mats for separate, more thorough scrubbing and cleaning.
2. Place any loose chairs, etc. on tables to get them out of the way.
3. Pick up all loose, large objects on the floor, such as utensils, napkins, french fries, etc.
4. THOROUGHLY vacuum the carpet.
5. Take note of any areas of heavy spills, where wicking may be a problem, requiring extra attention, even the use of a Water Claw^® Sub-Surface Spot Lifter.
6. Especially on the heavy traffic area near the cooking area, apply a high-pH prespray such as TLS^® 2000 or a high-pH enzyme traffic lane spotter designed for greasy restaurants, such as Pro-Zyme. Be sure to apply enough to allow the pre-spray to work on the grease before it dries.
7. Thoroughly scrub the greasy carpet with buffer fitted with a mild shampoo brush or a white pad with drive block.
8. If you don’t have a rotary floor machine, use a stiff deck brush to thoroughly scrub in the traffic lane spotter.
9. If necessary, allow 30 minutes dwell time for the prespray enzymes to chemically attack the restaurant grease.
10. Re-scrub the carpet.
11. THOROUGHLY extract at as high a temperature as possible with a high-pH detergent such as PCA™ Formula 4 with Booster™.
12. Since you are creating soap through saponification as your high-pH alkaline detergent is attacking the cooking grease, you may need to add AFC™ Anti-Foam Concentrate Defoamer to your recovery tank or pre-apply Crystal Defoamer in severe cases.
13. Since this work is done in the middle of the night, you may finish shortly before the restaurant opens. To speed up the drying, you may need to use air movers to decrease the drying time.
14. Additionally, you may need to use dry cotton cotton bonnets after cleaning to reduce the drying time and reduce wicking.
15. Another problem with restaurant carpets is a large number of spills that may wick back up after cleaning. Use dry bonnets after cleaning and apply ARA Anti-Resoiling Anti-Wicking Agent in spill areas and Stain Blotter on specific heavy spills.
16. Clean the mats and replace them. The restaurant may also use a separate rental service for them.

Below are photos from Wm. F. Bane Co., the service company division of Bane-Clene^® Corp., of a recent restaurant carpet cleaning job using TLS^® 2000 Heavy-Duty Traffic Lane Spotter and LCA^®-256 with Booster™ for cleaning and Citrus APS™ where needed for removing tough spots.

Below are photos of restaurant cleaning from Allens Carpet Care Plus ,
cleaning carpet and furniture since 1989 in middle Tennessee and South Central Kentucky.

Below are recent photos of restaurant carpet cleaning jobs by Kennays Carpet Care in Illinois using Bane-Clene truck-mounted and Bane-Clene carpet cleaning products:

Below are photos of cleaning restaurant carpets courtesy of Windell’s Carpet Care providing exceptional residential and commercial carpet cleaning services in southern Indiana since 1970.

Below is a number of photos of recent restaurant cleaning jobs using Bane-Clene equipment and products by Fresh Clean Carpet Cleaning,
serving prompt and efficient carpet and furniture cleaning services to the Marinette, Menominee and all surrounding areas in Wisconsin since 2005.

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