Institutional kitchens are restaurants that answer to more people. The exhaust system is on the same NFPA 96 schedule, but the documentation may be reviewed by the fire inspector, a health surveyor, an accreditation body, and a risk manager — and the scheduling has to work around service hours that don’t pause.
We’re a local referral service for commercial kitchens. Call or send the form and we’ll connect you with a trained, insured kitchen exhaust cleaning company serving Lexington — one that cleans the full system to NFPA 96 and leaves you the documentation your fire inspector and insurer expect. No charge for the referral.
Hospital and senior-living kitchens cooking three meals daily for hundreds often land in quarterly; lighter-volume facilities semi-annually. School cafeterias with heat-and-serve operations may be semi-annual or annual, with cleaning timed to breaks and before the school year. Churches and community kitchens are typically annual — and must be cleaned before reopening after seasonal or extended shutdowns. Hotels with banquet operations frequently sit at quarterly because event volume spikes grease production. A tier assessment on the first visit settles it.
The compliant package — company, dates, areas cleaned and not, technician information, signed certification, photos, sticker — satisfies the fire inspector by design, and it’s exactly what surveyors and insurers ask for. For multi-site operators, one consistent report format across facilities is worth asking for up front.
Institutional cleanings happen when the kitchen isn’t cooking: overnight, between meal services, or during breaks. The companies we refer work those windows and can hold a recurring schedule across multiple buildings — which is the whole point for a facility manager: one vendor, one calendar, one binder per site.
Tell us the facility type, number of kitchens, and cooking profile, and we’ll connect you with a trained, insured company equipped for institutional scale and documentation.
We’re a local referral service for commercial kitchens. Call or send the form and we’ll connect you with a trained, insured kitchen exhaust cleaning company serving Lexington — one that cleans the full system to NFPA 96 and leaves you the documentation your fire inspector and insurer expect. No charge for the referral.
Lexington Hood Cleaning — Connecting Lexington restaurants and commercial kitchens with trained, insured kitchen exhaust cleaning companies.
Serving Lexington, Nicholasville, Georgetown, Versailles, Winchester, Richmond, Frankfort, and Central Kentucky.
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Information on this site is general guidance on NFPA 96 and commercial kitchen exhaust maintenance, not a compliance determination for your specific kitchen — your local fire authority makes that call. Lexington Hood Cleaning is a referral service and does not itself perform exhaust cleaning, inspection, or certification.