This program has given you more than just instructions on how to clean a hood. It will provided you with a complete roadmap — the science...

Long before there was Facebook, LinkedIn, or even much email, there were bulletin boards. Robert Hinderliter from Delco ran one, Ron...

The Day I Played Golf with Jack Nicklaus I was able to start golfing again back in 2006. Once I picked it up, I really leaned into...

NFPA 96 ,  Standard for Ventilation Control and Fire Protection of Commercial Cooking Operations , sets out essential requirements to...

– The Smoking Rags Hood cleaning takes a lot of rags. Mountains of them. We’d wash our own, dry our own, and think nothing of it. Just...

By the 1990s, we had 5-6 trucks running every night. We’d hired a full-time mechanic because those used trucks always had a way of...

I wanted to get into the grease filter exchange business. Back then in Chicago, it was a pretty big thing, and I figured there was an...

When I got my first pressure washing machine, I thought I was unstoppable. I was ready to clean anything that stood still. I started with...

– The Dunkin’ Donuts Debacle My first hood cleaning job… and my first disaster. Fresh out of Black Magic school in the 1980s, I was...

Sign up for our KEC class and instantly unlock  a  PWNA Enterprise Membership  for six month after the class of the KEC program—covering:...

Back in 1992, I went down to Fort Worth, Texas, for the very first PW&A convention. That’s where I met a gentleman named Robert...

Early Career and Beginnings (1960s–1970s) Phil Ackland entered the commercial kitchen exhaust cleaning industry in 1966, marking the...

Black Magic I got my start in fast food back in high school and into college. Like a lot of kids, I thought maybe one day I’d open a...