The best applications and methods of pest control in restaurants

Insect control in restaurants aims to prevent insects from entering. Food, surfaces, and cooking equipment are exposed to contamination or damage. 

With the presence of pests, the food will not be appetizing to customers and it will be a reason for customers to leave the restaurant.

Insect control in restaurants to prevent food contamination:

Insects are very attracted to contaminated places like garbage and it reproduces in large numbers because it carries a lot of germs it contaminates food and foodstuffs.

Just the presence of a single pest or insect could indicate that more of them exist and it contaminates food once it stands.

Pests carry many germs that cause diseases: -

• Flies control: it exists in all seasons of the year and it carries more than 100 types of germs that cause diseases it is fed by spitting out salivary and digestive fluids to liquefy food.
• Cockroaches Control: quick to reproduce, prefer warm and damp areas (crevices) and it carries more than 50 types of germs that cause diseases such as salmonella and cholera. Seeing cockroaches during the day indicates high density.
• Ants control: active in summer and winter; infestation abounds in summer and Infestation occurs when there are a large number of ants on food products.
• Rodents and rats control: consume, contaminate food, and carry a lot of germs that cause diseases. And rodents (like rats and mice) can gnaw into all types of minerals except steel so it can damage equipment used to cook food.

The leftovers and greases could provide a golden opportunity for these insects to feed on these greases. And as soon as a single pest appears in a restaurant food could be contaminated. Therefore, pest control must be done in restaurants to prevent pest problems from occurring.

Not garbage and leftovers only are attractive sources for pests there are also attractants like:

• Cracks: cracks, warm and damp places are good harborages to pests. Inside cracks and openings, you can find ants, cockroaches, and rats or mice.
• Neglected food: neglected or exposed food are an attractive source for pests.
• Equipment for cooking food: like frying pans from the surfaces that are exposed to pest contamination. Pests are attracted to it because it contains fats.
• Food storage: food stocks of foodstuffs and products that are used for cooking are exposed to contamination and damage through pests.
• Catering: you can find pests on warm, damp places and surfaces in a restaurant like on the walls and dining tables.

All pest attractants should be checked during insect control in restaurants to prevent the entry of pests or insects to the restaurant and places in which restaurants cook, store and serve food and to prevent pest activity or infestation.

The difference between the occurrence of an activity or an infestation is that pests activity means there's a low number of pests like 1 rat or 9 flies or less but infestation means the spread of the pest.

We at Orkin Egypt follow an integrated pest management (IPM) system.

Integrated pest management is a system that depends on the use of all appropriate technology and management practices to achieve pest prevention and suppress it in a cost-effective and environmental manner.

And this system includes four strategies:

1. Biological
2. Behavioral/cultural
3. Physical/mechanical
4. Chemical

From challenges that face integrated pest management:

1. Cleaning problems
2. Entrances leading to pests entering
3. Cracks and burrows
4. Ineffective barriers
5. Neglected or exposed food
6. Stagnant water
7. Poor handling with Orkin's equipment's

Pest control service for restaurants from Orkin Egypt:

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