Restaurant Pest Control

Pest Control for Restaurants and Cafés

Restaurants and cafés need pest control that is effective, food-safe, and conducted in a way that doesn't disrupt the dining room or the kitchen flow. A health inspection that flags pest activity can do serious damage to a small food-service business, but the wrong kind of pest treatment — visible during service hours, with broad spraying in food-prep areas — can do almost as much damage.

Apollo Pest Control works with small food-service businesses across Sidney, the Saanich Peninsula and Greater Victoria. Our approach is built around the way restaurants and cafés actually operate.

What We Cover

• Rodents in back-of-house, storage and delivery areas
• Cockroaches in kitchens, dish pits and warmer storage
• Fruit flies and small flies around drains, recycling and produce
• Ants in coffee stations, sugar storage and prep areas
• Wasps and yellowjackets around patios, entries and waste areas in summer
• Pantry pests in dry storage, bulk grain and packaged dry goods
• Mouse activity in dish pits, dry storage and food prep

How We Work Around Your Hours

We schedule visits early in the morning, between services, or after close — whatever works for your operation. Most treatments are discreet enough that customers and staff don't have to know a service was happening. Routine treatments are designed to be:

• Quick — most routine visits take under an hour
• Targeted — we treat where the pests are, not where they aren't
• Food-safe — products and methods appropriate for food-service environments
• Documented — every visit comes with a written record

Documentation

Each visit comes with a written service record useful for health-inspection visits and your own internal logs. For ongoing accounts we can build a simple binder you can hand a health inspector that shows when each visit happened, what was treated, and what recommendations were given.

Prevention Recommendations

Most commercial pest problems trace back to a handful of root causes:

• Dumpster placement, lid condition and how often it's emptied
• Drainage and floor sanitation in dish pits
• Back-door gaps and damaged weatherstripping
• Storage practices for dry goods and produce
• Fruit fly breeding sites in drains, mop buckets and bar mats
• Delivery boxes brought in from infested storage areas
• Gaps where utilities (gas, water, electrical) enter the building

We'll point these out during service so you can address them without major changes to the operation.

Patios, Outdoor Seating and Wasps in Summer

Outdoor dining areas attract wasps and yellowjackets — especially later in the season when the colonies are large and looking for sugary food. We treat nests in patio structures, soffits, garbage areas and ground openings, and recommend changes to waste management and recycling that reduce attractant pressure.

Routine vs. As-Needed Service

For most established restaurants and cafés, a routine monthly or bi-monthly visit is more cost-effective and far less stressful than waiting for problems to develop. For newer or smaller operations, we sometimes start with an inspection and as-needed service and move to routine visits only if the situation warrants it.