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...

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...