How Commercial Restaurants Deal with Rodents

Rodents are naturally attracted to restaurants since it tends to be warm year-round in the kitchen and there is potentially large amount of food available. Dealing with them can be done a few different ways, but it is almost always a good idea to consult with a professional about your options.

Removing Rodents From a Commercial Kitchen

The three main ways to take care of a rodent problem include:

• Cleaning thoroughly

• Setting your own traps

• Using an exterminator

The Importance of Cleanliness

Taking a little bit of time to remove food scraps from your floors and counters can cut down on the food source available to mice and rats. If the food is harder to get, they will sometimes go elsewhere to get an easier meal, without sticking around to create offspring. While this can help keep rodent population under control, if they are getting food from somewhere you cannot reach, you may need to take stronger action.

Using Standard Traps

Traps that are available at big-box stores or even specialty retailers can help you get rid of the rodents currently infesting your restaurant. Often, you will catch a few right away, reducing the population, but not all of them will fall for these fairly simple traps. What can happen is that you temporarily reduce their numbers, but if you do not fix the underlying reason why the rodents showed up in the first place, they will be back relatively quickly. Though it is a temporary fix, it does not hurt to put a few down while you work on a more permanent solution.

Benefits of an Exterminator

In order to get rid of rodents for an extended period of time, you will usually have to get in touch with an exterminator. As a professional, they would be able to tell you why the rodents are coming into your restaurant, how they are probably getting in, and what can be done to stop them. In most cases, a pest control specialist will spray repellant and poison around the areas where they think the rodents congregate. This gets the mice and rats out of their comfort zone, making it more likely that they will try to get out of your building. The poison acts as a rodenticide to eliminate remaining pests. An exterminator will sometimes lay down their own professional-grade traps, especially if there are some very large rodents that may not respond well to the poison.

Need mice or rat help? Call Preventive Pest Control today for effective commercial pest control in Utah.