Kitchen Guard of Birmingham - Commercial Kitchen Hood Cleaning

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About Us

The Team at Kitchen Guard of Birmingham

Kitchen Guard is excited to bring premier commercial kitchen exhaust/hood cleaning to the greater Birmingham and Tuscaloosa areas.

How We’re Different

About Us

It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it…and we’re proud to bring Birmingham a professional, customer-focused, and dependable commercial kitchen exhaust cleaning business.

Hello! We are Kitchen Guard® of Birmingham, the nation’s premier commercial kitchen exhaust cleaning franchise.

We are excited to serve the greater Birmingham and Tuscaloosa areas (see counties, cities, and zip codes below).

Meet the owner, Owen Elliott, a former investment banker who would rather keep your commercial kitchen safe and operating efficiently, than look at spreadsheets all day.

Frequent eaters at several popular restaurants in Birmingham (including Bottega, Ovenbird, The Bright Star, The Waysider Restaurant, and Archibald’s), Owen and Daryl, a Fire & Life Safety Consultant, are proud to keep kitchens fire-safe, compliant and operating at their best.

Who do we serve in the great state of Alabama? Our customers include restaurants, sports venues, universities, hospitals, and any business with a commercial kitchen. Our goal is to help our customers be fire-safe and compliant by providing professional cleaning and repair services to their exhaust and ventilation system. We aim to ensure our community’s commercial kitchens are fire-safe and compliant with local, state, and federal regulations. We only clean to the highest standards established by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA 96).

We can’t wait to serve you.

About Kitchen Guard®

Founded in 2009 in San Diego, California by Nathan Leathers, Kitchen Guard is a disruptive new B2B franchise revolutionizing the commercial kitchen exhaust cleaning industry. In 2023, The Riverside Company, a global private investor, acquired Kitchen Guard to add to its B2B portfolio managed by EverSmith Brands. Kitchen Guard offers a variety of professional services from full kitchen exhaust/hood cleaning to filter exchange and fan maintenance programs, consultation, technical repairs, and more. All designed to help protect its customers’ capital investments.

Where We Serve

We clean Hoods, Ventilation Systems, and Rooftop Fans – the entire Commercial Kitchen Exhaust System – in these areas:

Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Mountain Brook, Homewood, Vestavia Hills, Hoover, Alabaster, Trussville, Bessemer, Pelham, Helena, Cullman, Hueytown, Center Point, Gardendale, Talladega, Chelsea, Jasper, Irondale, Moody, Calera, Sylacauga, Leeds, Forestdale, Clay, Fairfield, Fultondale, Pleasant Grove, Clanton, Montevallo, Pinson, Oneonta, Tarrant, Midfield, Kimberly, Warrior, Sumiton, Brighton, Lipscomb, North Port, Indian Hills, Cottondale, and Lake View.

Why Businesses Choose Us

We Know the Code

We Know the Code
Inspection Reports with Digital Photos

Inspection Reports with Digital Photos
Responsive and Communicative

Responsive and Communicative
Responsive & Reliable

Responsive & Reliable
Professional & Reliable Technicians

Professional & Reliable Technicians
Emergency SMS Alerts

Emergency SMS Alerts

Meet The Crew

Owen Elliott

Owner, Kitchen Guard of Birmingham

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Owen Elliott

Owner, Kitchen Guard of Birmingham

Owen Elliott

Owner, Kitchen Guard of Birmingham

Owen spent the first decade of his career in investment banking until pivoting to Franchise Ownership with Kitchen Guard. He has always wanted to own and operate his own business, and doing so via Kitchen Guard provides him the opportunity to serve the establishments he loves throughout Birmingham.
Daryl Whitfield

Fire & Life Safety Consultant

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Daryl Whitfield

Fire & Life Safety Consultant

Daryl Whitfield

Fire & Life Safety Consultant

Daryl is a former collegiate athlete with approximately 30 years in the restaurant industry – from ownership to general management and everything in the middle. He knows the importance of a clean, safe, and efficient commercial kitchen.

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Keep Your Kitchen Running Efficiently

Premium Hood & Ventilation System Cleaning

Hood Cleaning

From the canopy to the entire ducting network and all the way to the fans on the roof, we clean your commercial kitchen to NFPA 96 standards.

This is our core competency. We clean it correctly the first time reducing any fire risk.
We clean the entire system, not just a portion of it.
We use a commercial-grade pressure washer and other equipment to clean as thoroughly as possible.
We’ll show you proof (before and after pictures) and documentation to file for compliance.

Filter Exchange

This hassle-free program frequently replaces your dirty filters – the first line of defense against grease – keeping your kitchen running efficiently (and looking good).

We know your filter sizes and we always keep clean, spare filters in our vans so we can quickly change out your dirty ones, proactively managing fire risk.
We do it so your kitchen staff doesn’t.
We clean each by pressure washing, soaking, and hand-scrubbing to ensure a thorough and proper clean to the highest standards.

Green Steam

Green Stream

While we’re cleaning your hood and filters, we’ll also Green Steam your kitchen floors, drains, bars, awnings, patios and dumpster areas, and more, keeping your curb appeal and customer experience high.

By providing “wet steam” deep cleaning, Kitchen Guard reaches all the areas your tired employees aren’t getting with a mop during their closing duties.
We’ll remove any unsightly build-up on pipes, drain lines, walls, and flooring by utilizing our wet steam technology (in which our commercial machines can reach temperatures of up to 300 degrees at 3500 PSI).
We apply an active enzyme in our cleaning chemical that sanitizes surfaces and keeps working after we leave.

Repairs

We can fix anything including access panels (curved and flat styles), fan replacement (upblast and utility-set), belt replacement, curb extensions and reductions, hinge kits with grease containment, roof repair (from grease damage) and any custom work request you have.

While cleaning, our trained technicians will also be able to detect and diagnose issues in your kitchen exhaust system. That’s why we offer a full line of repair options.
Our repairs keep your system in compliance with the highest safety standards established by the National Fire Protection Association.
From fixing or creating access panels on your fans to belt and entire fan replacement and grease containment or roof repair, Kitchen Guard can repair it.

Safe and Clean Kitchens for Every Industry

From fast food to 5-star full service restaurants and stadiums – we cover it all.

Restaurants

If you own one or many restaurants, we’ll keep your kitchens fire safe, clean and fully operational.

Corporate Cafeterias

Like the employees in your office building, we’ll keep your Corporate Cafeterias fully functional to the highest quality NFPA 96 standards.

Sports Venues

Your stadium’s commercial kitchens will perform as well as the teams competing with our comprehensive cleaning services.

Hospitals & Assisted Living

We help restore commercial kitchens to be high-performing, safe and clean for your in-need patients and their families.

Educational Institutions

We study proper cleaning techniques and fire protection strategies, using commercial grade equipment, to ensure your kitchen is fully functional and your students are safe.

Hotel Chains

Your hotel’s complimentary breakfast or alluring 5-star rated luxury restaurant kitchens needs proper regular cleaning performed at the highest quality standards to keep you hospitable to the daily influx of guests.

Stories from Our Clients

We use Kitchen Guard for all our restaurants for one simple reason – they’re easy to do business with.

David Jones
Director of Operations, Verant Group

Kitchen Guard keeps our restaurant (and our wood-burning oven) clean, safe and to the necessary standards required by law.

Ivan Derezin
Owner, The Bellows Restaurant