Madison runs on institutional food service — a university’s dining halls, hospital kitchens on three services a day, corporate campuses feeding thousands, school districts, senior living. Same NFPA 96 schedule as any restaurant, with more people reading the paperwork and fewer hours when the kitchen goes dark.
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 the Madison area — one that cleans the full system to NFPA 96 and leaves the documentation your fire inspector and insurer expect. No charge for the referral.
Hospital and senior-living kitchens cooking continuously commonly land in quarterly; lighter facilities semi-annual. Campus dining halls run high volume in session — quarterly is the honest tier for most, with cleanings timed to breaks. Corporate cafeterias vary with headcount and menu; a grease-depth reading settles it. School cafeterias with heat-and-serve lines run semi-annual or annual, cleaned over summer and winter breaks. Churches and community kitchens: annual, and always before reopening after a shutdown.
The compliant package — company, dates, areas cleaned and not, technician information, signed certification, photos, sticker — satisfies the fire inspector by design and is exactly what surveyors, accreditors, and insurers ask to see. Multi-site operators: request one consistent report format across facilities up front, and audit season becomes a filing exercise.
Institutional cleanings happen when the kitchen isn’t cooking — overnight, between services, over academic breaks. The companies we refer work those windows and hold recurring schedules across buildings: one vendor, one calendar, one binder per site.
Tell us the facility type, kitchen count, 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 the Madison area — one that cleans the full system to NFPA 96 and leaves the documentation your fire inspector and insurer expect. No charge for the referral.
Madison Hood Cleaning — Connecting Madison-area restaurants and commercial kitchens with trained, insured kitchen exhaust cleaning companies.
Serving Madison, Middleton, Fitchburg, Sun Prairie, Verona, Waunakee, Monona, Stoughton, and Dane County.
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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. Madison Hood Cleaning is a referral service and does not itself perform exhaust cleaning, inspection, or certification.