Fast food Joints

[Clean County]

How do people here that clean fast food joints figure out there pricing? And what is the typical cleaning that these types of places want from a powerwasher co.?

I'm guessing they would want a price for any flat work, dumpsters, and maybe even there hoods. Probably a good Idea is to find out from them what exactly they want cleaned and go from there.

I have a lead to maybe land a couple of these places and my biggest fear is that they will want a price to also clean the hoods which is something that I don't do. If so I might look for another company in my area that I could subcontract the hood work to.

Which leads me to one more question. What is the typical price to clean a hood at these fast food joints, and when doing this type of work what else is also included in this cleaning?

Thanks

 

[PressureClean]

Jon, just make sure if you are subbing the vent hood work out that your subs are insured to cover those things. If something happens and they only have say a half million in coverage and the place burns down, the owner is coming after you as the lead contractor and you are only going to recover what you can from their insurance and their assets above that. Having subs is such a minefield of liability problems that we only use them on simple things like flat work and decks. I figure what's the worse that can happen with cement and decks and I always call the day before they work on a job for us and make sure their insurance is good. We actually haven't been doing vent hoods for about the last six months now and it's nice not having to worry about liability issues like these any more. With the commercial accounts we have we do the flat work, dumpster areas, etc., and we just recommend another local company that we have a prearranged deal with for the vent hoods and they do the work seperate from us. It works out nice since they specialize in vent hoods and we don't, so they actually refer business to us for flat work, building exteriors and such and we refer them the vent hood leads and don't have the liability problems for their work.

Just be careful if you decide to venture into the world of subbing out work and make sure you are incorporated and fully insured to be able to take the hit if one of your subs royally screws up.

 

[john orr]

Lance, Do you get $$ for referrals on the hoods? I'm not an attorney, but you may want to check with one, as to whether this would keep you "in the liability loop". A customer had an issue with a painter I had referred, but because I had not received any $$, I was not dragged into it. (It worked out fine...in fact, my customer hired me afterwards to do some other work, as well as refer me to others.)

I was told that paying for referrals was ok, but being paid for them isn't...at least according to my atty here in VA.

 

[PressureClean]

You're right John. We don't accept referral fees, we do more of a joint marketing type of arrangement. We push them whenever we have an opportunity to push vent hoods and they push us as a contractor for flat work and building exteriors. Even got a few deck strip/seal jobs off them. It's a nice arrangement. But no, neither of us pay each other for the leads themselves as I would think that would still lead to liability issues if something did happen. Best thing is to have a total seperation from the other company that way nothing can be traced to you in any way. You may have recommended them, but that's the same thing as a neighbor telling you they like this guy who mows their lawn.