Jay Yoo had just opened his Philly cheesesteak restaurant in a former Herfy’s Burgers when the same health inspector who had given him the green-light returned three hours later to shut him down. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Suppose the city where you live could show up at your house, demand that you dig a giant hole in your driveway or maybe the front ...

Every night, an employee at Eda Johnson’s new restaurant in the Stadium District dons a mask and heads downstairs to a storage room with a clipboard and a pen. The mission is to scrape the gunk out of ...

CHARLESTON — The greasy underbelly of the food industry is delaying openings and costing area restaurant owners tens of thousands of dollars — and sometimes much more. Upper King Street cocktail bar ...

Tacoma restaurant owners say the city’s rules on grease traps are costing them time and money, stifling development and discouraging culinary creativity. They want relief. The City Council, in what it ...

Every restaurant needs to cook, and cooking produces exhaust, grease, and noise. In New York City, the mechanical systems that handle these byproducts—venting, grease traps, and sound attenuation—are ...

Grease interceptors, like this one outside Edison Square in South Tacoma, act as a barrier between kitchen sinks and sewer mains. FOG is lighter than water, so it floats to the top, while heavy solids ...