Who We Are

About Kitchen Guard of Phoenix

Locally owned and operated, we clean commercial kitchen exhaust systems to NFPA 96 standards across the Phoenix metro — Scottsdale, Glendale, Chandler, Tempe, Mesa and the West Valley. W2 technicians, photo-documented reports on every visit, and a free reclean if we miss anything.

Our Value Proposition
Corporate Kitchen WEB

Why Phoenix Restaurants Choose Kitchen Guard

  • NFPA 96 logo - Kitchen Guard cleans to NFPA 96 fire code standards
    NFPA 96 Compliance, Documented
    NFPA 96 Compliance, Documented

  • Before-and-After Photos Every Visit
    Before-and-After Photos Every Visit

  • On-Time, Every Time
    On-Time, Every Time

  • A Direct Line to Your Technician
    A Direct Line to Your Technician

  • W2, Background-Checked Technicians
    W2, Background-Checked Technicians

  • Emergency Response & SMS Alerts
    Emergency Response & SMS Alerts

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Meet Your Phoenix Crew

  • Troy Stansberry

    Troy Stansberry

    Co-Owner
  • Val Stansberry

    Val Stansberry

    Co-Owner

Careers at Kitchen Guard of Phoenix

We’re hiring technicians, foremen, and Fire & Life Safety Consultants across the Valley. Full-time W2 roles, paid training, and monthly safety certification — previous hood cleaning experience isn’t required.

The Story Behind Kitchen Guard

Meet the Founder

Nathan Leathers

Founder of Kitchen Guard

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What We Do

Commercial Hood & Exhaust Cleaning Services in Phoenix

Hood Cleaning

Hood & Exhaust Cleaning

Canopy, plenum, filters, the full duct run, and the rooftop fan — cleaned to bare metal and documented to NFPA 96 for kitchens across the Valley.

  • Roof down, hood up. The whole system every visit — no partial cleans, no shortcuts.
  • Photo-documented reports for Phoenix Fire Department and Maricopa County inspections.
  • Overnight crews in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale and Peoria.
  • Locally owned, W2 background-checked technicians and a free reclean if we miss anything.
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Kitchens We Clean Across the Phoenix Valley

Every commercial kitchen in Maricopa County answers to the same NFPA 96 standard and the same county inspectors — but a drive-thru, a hospital galley and a resort banquet kitchen each need a different plan. Here’s how we work in each.

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Restaurants

One location or thirty. We clean overnight so your line never loses a cover, and every visit ends with a photo report and a dated service label — the two things a Maricopa County inspector and your fire marshal both ask for. County inspection reports are public record. We clean like yours will be read.

Corporate-Cafeteria

Corporate Cafeterias

Tempe office towers, the Chandler Price Corridor, Deer Valley and the Sky Harbor campuses. We schedule around badge hours and building engineering, work after the last lunch service, and leave certificates your facilities team can drop straight into the building compliance file. Nobody smells it in the lobby Monday morning.

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Sports Venues

Concourse stands, club-level galleys and suite pantries, from the Glendale stadium district to downtown Phoenix. We work the dark days between events, and we know a special-event food operation has to be registered with Maricopa County Environmental Services before gates open. Whole system cleaned and documented before the next home stand.

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Hospitals &
Assisted Living

Kitchens that never fully close. We stage the work so one hood comes down at a time, keep the hot line running, and follow infection-control and life-safety protocol on the floor. ADHS posts three years of survey history on AZ Care Check — your documentation package is built to hold up there.

Educational-Institution

Educational Institutions

K-12 cafeterias, community college kitchens and university dining halls across the Valley’s largest districts. We book fall break, winter break and the summer window early, because every district wants the same three weeks. We clean with no student on site, and reports reach facilities and food service the same day.

Hotel-Kitchen

Hotel Chains

Complimentary breakfast lines, banquet kitchens and signature restaurants at Phoenix, Scottsdale and Paradise Valley resorts. We work the window between last call and first breakfast, run containment so nothing reaches a guest corridor, and plan around peak season — January through April is the wrong time to close a banquet kitchen.

Service Areas

Hood Cleaning Across the Phoenix Metro

We route our crews by area across Maricopa County, so your clean lands when your kitchen is closed instead of when it’s slammed.

  • Phoenix — Downtown, Roosevelt Row, Arcadia, Biltmore, Desert Ridge, and Sky Harbor area concessions.
  • Scottsdale — Old Town, the Scottsdale Airpark, and North Scottsdale resort kitchens.
  • Tempe — Mill Avenue, ASU campus dining, and the Town Lake corridor.
  • Mesa — Downtown Mesa, Riverview, and Superstition Springs.
  • Chandler — Downtown Chandler, the Price Corridor, and Chandler Fashion Center.
  • Glendale — Westgate, Arrowhead, and the stadium district.
  • Gilbert — the Heritage District and SanTan Village.
  • Peoria, Surprise, Goodyear and Avondale — full West Valley coverage.

How often does your kitchen need cleaning?

Under NFPA 96, frequency depends on what you cook, not just the calendar. Solid-fuel appliances such as wood and charcoal grills are cleaned monthly. High-volume kitchens running fryers and charbroilers are on a quarterly cycle. Moderate-volume operations are semi-annual, and low-volume kitchens such as churches, seasonal venues, and senior centers are annual.

Valley kitchens also run on their own rhythm. Snowbird season, spring training, and the stadium calendar all push volume up for months at a time, so we build your schedule around your peaks rather than a generic date. Fire inspectors across Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, Mesa, and the rest of the Valley will ask to see your service records, and every visit we make is filed to your client portal with dated before-and-after photos.

What Kitchen Guard Clients Say

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

Set it and forget it.

Adam Rinella
VP of Real Esate & Development, Ike's Love and Sandwiches
David Jones, Kitchen Guard of Phoenix hood cleaning customer
Ivan, owner of The Bellows, Kitchen Guard hood cleaning customer
Adam Rinella, Kitchen Guard of Phoenix hood cleaning customer
Before and After

See the Difference

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Stadiums

Full-service exhaust cleaning for stadium and arena kitchens, scheduled around event calendars.

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