How to Keep Your Commercial Kitchen Free of Pests

Summer has ended and winter is fast approaching. While we pile on sweaters and coats, pests are also looking for ways to beat the winter cold. Unfortunately, their solution is usually to invade homes and businesses where they’ll be nice and warm. Besides warmth, they’ll also need to find new sources of food as the ground freezes. Naturally, then, they’re attracted to nice warm commercial kitchens with stores of food everywhere. It can be difficult to keep pests out of your commercial kitchen during the winter, but it’s well worth the effort to keep your kitchen sanitary. Below you’ll find a few tips for preventing a winter time pest invasion this year.

  1. Keep your kitchen spotless
    Pests are attracted to warmth and food during the winter. You can’t help the fact that your kitchen will offer them a warm place to spend the winter, but you can keep them from being attracted by the promise of food. By keeping your kitchen clean and free of crumbs, you’ll be able to keep it from becoming prime real estate for pests this winter.
  1. Seal your kitchen
    Pests are not going to walk into your kitchen through the front door. At least, I really hope they won’t. They’re going to get in through small openings throughout your kitchen. Sealing these nooks and crannies can act as your first line of defense again pests.
  1. Arm your kitchen with traps
    Place traps wherever you think pests are likely to hide out in your kitchen. By doing so, you can prevent an all-out infestation by catching the first pests that try to set up a colony in your kitchen.When it comes to pests this winter, remember that prevention is far easier and less expensive than extermination. Keep your kitchen clean, sealed, and full of traps to discourage pests from setting up shop in your shop.