Restaurants provide predators with a regular and abundant supply of food and warmth, from the most casual fast food store to the most upscale dining venue. In the food service industry, insects, cockroaches, bees and rodents are extremely common and can pose dangerous issues.

In the kitchen, pests will contaminate food and spread disease to your patrons, as well as wreak havoc on your food and goods inventory. A restaurant with a strong reputation will easily lose business and incur significant financial losses if a pest makes its way into the dining room.

Cockroaches often carry bacteria that cause gastroenteritis and diseases like diarrhoea, dysentery, typhoid fever, and cholera, among others. Staff members who are exposed to cockroaches on a regular basis can experience allergic reactions such as swelling of the face, dermal infections and severe respiratory problems.

Disease-causing microbes can be carried by rats and rodents, which can be particularly dangerous to workers and consumers. Directly transmitted diseases by rodents include lymphocytic choriomeningitis, tularemia, and the plague, as well as diseases transmitted indirectly. Some mice, in fact, can spread Hantavirus, an unusual respiratory illness with no proven treatment that can be lethal in humans.

It might be tempting to attempt and deal with a pest infestation yourself in order to avoid drawing attention to it, but with your life on the line, you require a professional pest control contractor to not just eradicate the rodents, but also to implement an advanced pest prevention policy and clean your restaurant for you and your employees.