Description

Kitchen Guard specializes in comprehensive commercial kitchen cleaning services, including hood cleaning, filter exchange, green steam cleaning, and equipment repair. Kitchen Guard focus is on ensuring kitchens meet NFPA 96 standards, enhancing safety, and maintaining optimal performance. Kitchen Guard’s solutions cater to a wide range of businesses, with services designed to minimize disruption and reduce fire risk through state-of-the-art cleaning technology and certified technicians​.

 

By The Numbers

Total Units:

Home Office: San Diego, California

Year Founded: 2009 (Formerly Green Guard Services)

Franchising Since: 2023

 

Opportunities Kitchen Guard Provide

Kitchen Guard offers a comprehensive range of services to ensure the safety, cleanliness, and efficiency of your commercial kitchen. With Exhaust System Cleaning utilizes advanced technology and thorough methods to ensure your kitchen exhaust and hood system meets NFPA 96 standards, creating a compliant environment for your customers. In addition, Kitchen Guard Filter Replacement Service, chosen by about 80% of clients, allows your team to make regular visits, sometimes weekly, fostering strong, ongoing relationships.

Kitchen Guard also provides technical repairs and expert consulting, taking a holistic approach to managing your exhaust system by handling everything from installation panel access and faulty hinge repairs to recommending proactive system upgrades that enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty. Lastly, the Eco-Friendly Steam Cleaning service, through the use of a rotary head surface cleaner, restores both interior and exterior surfaces—such as sidewalks, dumpster areas, and patios—bringing them back to their original pristine condition.

Why Start a Franchise with Kitchen Guard?

• Guaranteed Demand

Commercial kitchen cleaning is more than a safety and cleanliness necessity—it’s legally mandated. Local, state, and federal regulations require restaurants to maintain specific standards, guided by the National Fire Protection Association’s NFPA 96 regulations for ventilation and fire safety. Kitchen Guard ensures compliance by delivering cleaning, inspections, and repairs that meet these exacting standards. This creates a reliable, ongoing demand you can depend on.

• Efficient, Proven Systems

Optimized for Growth and Professionalism. Kitchen Guard has elevated commercial kitchen cleaning with advanced systems, cutting-edge technology, and a customer-focused approach. Our streamlined processes and multi-layered sales strategies ensure efficiency while supporting sustainable business expansion. By keeping customers at the center of our operations, we’re positioned for consistent, long-term success.

• Recurring Revenue

Reliable Income Stream. Commercial kitchens require regular cleaning and maintenance to uphold food safety and hygiene standards. As a franchise owner, you’ll create recurring contracts with predictable revenue streams, ensuring financial stability and reducing uncertainties while laying a solid foundation for growth.

• Diverse Revenue Opportunities

Fostering Lasting Partnerships. Our B2B model drives rapid growth with short sales cycles, a retention rate of over 90%, and multiple service opportunities per customer annually (typically quarterly for restaurants). With offerings like hood cleaning, filter programs, repairs, and more, you’ll generate multiple income streams while building long-term client relationships supported by annualized contracts with CPI adjustments.

• Health & Safety Commitment

Protecting Your Community. Kitchen Guard’s services go beyond cleaning to support the health, safety, and operational wellness of commercial kitchens. By reducing fire risks, preventing workplace injuries, and maintaining compliance, we help businesses operate safely while lowering insurance costs and providing peace of mind. Your franchise will play a critical role in keeping kitchens in your community safe and functional.

• Leverage National Accounts

Expand Your Impact. Grow your brand and boost revenue by capitalizing on established and growing national accounts provided by Kitchen Guard’s corporate team. With the restaurant industry projected to exceed $1 trillion by 2030 (per the National Restaurant Association), there’s never been a better time to tap into this thriving market—starting right in your own community.

Franchisee Support

• Sales Proficiency

You’ll work directly with our Sales Excellence Leader to grow and manage your business through prospecting, solution development, networking, CRM management, and ongoing training, all while utilizing our exclusive sales and marketing playbooks to implement best practices and effective strategies.

• Operations & Analytics Assistance

Our dedicated field-based franchise business managers provide continuous support to help you master efficient operations.

• Advanced Technical Training

You’ll receive full-service, onsite technical training through our 10-day comprehensive program, utilizing the latest technology and equipment to master cleaning techniques, operate machinery, and navigate point-of-sale and customer relationship management systems, along with access to our learning management system and a library of training videos to ensure your team delivers high-quality service.

• Marketing Strategy & Lead Conversion Training

Work with our marketing specialists to leverage digital marketing tools, sales materials, and target personas, while also mastering social media strategies and digital advertising to engage leads, create impactful customer experiences, and convert them into long-term contracts.

Ready to have your Own Business?

Are you an experienced professional looking for a career change that lets you apply your sales expertise, work independently, lead your own team, and build wealth? Kitchen Guard provides a dynamic business opportunity that enables you to channel your ambition and take charge of your future. Join the leading commercial kitchen cleaning company in the nation and start your journey towards building a successful empire.

Start your journey with Kitchen Guard today and join an industry where safety and success go hand in hand. With Kitchen Guard support, expertise, and proven systems, you can build a thriving business in a growing market.