Food outlets or restaurants are primary targets for rodents such as rats and mice. Food is available to rodents through leftover foods dumped in to garbage bags and cans. This is reason why rodents invade restaurants more than other business establishments. You can easily spot mice scavenging food from garbage bins placed in the restaurant periphery. This is a pointer towards the impending calamity of food poisoning and resultant rodent carried diseases. A restaurant is a busy business outlet that continuously serves food and smell of food is too overpowering to resist for rats and mice. This is bad for your restaurant business so it is time that you call professional pest control Vaughan like BBPP, leader in mice extermination in the area and for nearby areas.
Signs that tell your restaurant have mice infestation
- In a restaurant it is not abnormal to find mice because the establishment is the obvious choice for them- it provides food and shelter. Infestation can be easily detected by telltale signs left behind by rats and mice. You will scratch mark on shelves, food packets, walls, and food preparations space. You will find rice sized black mice droppings, urine stain, and hair on the floor. You would also find runway markings along the wall that mice use extensively to access various parts of the restaurant.
- Mice will bite in to anything that smells of food. They will gnaw chairs and tables to collect nesting materials and also rip open food or grain packets to collect food and eat. They will also waste food by scattering on the floor and in the process contaminate them by urinating on the spilled food. There will be large scale waste of food items when you have mice infestation and your restaurant will suffer food and profit loss tremendously.
- Your kitchen and dining area may smell like rat, strong and pungent ammonia like odor and it will be an unpleasant experience for customers. Nobody likes such odors and it is likely that they will never return to your establishment. By harboring rodents in restaurant owners may invite infections, allergies and deadly diseases.
How to prevent rodents from running over your business?
Prevent entry
This is the best solution as it will effectively cut off access to your restaurant. Place door sweepers to seal the gap under the door, close window panels, install mesh screen on the windows. Find holes and wall crevices and seal them with impregnable sealants like caulk, cement, steel wool ball or steel wire mesh, anything less than that will be breached by the sharp front teeth of rodents.
Remove food and food smell
Remove leftover foods and dump them in thickly lidded containers or trash bins. Clean all restaurant surfaces with water and disinfectants. Pay attention to food preparation areas, food shelves and hidden areas like behind the fridge, under the sink and near cooking range. Do not leave food on the table carelessly and make sure to remove food spills from the floor. Applying strong disinfectants while cleaning will prove fruitful in deterring mice.
Employ Cats and traps
Leave a cat during nights and also place mouse traps to catch stray rodents. Clap traps or bait stations have proved effective in eliminating rats and mice but they are not enough to exterminate a family of mice containing dozens of them.
Prevention is better than cure, but the ploy may fail if your restaurant is already teeming with rats. This scenery will need you to call professional help like BBPP, most sought after pest control service Vaughan to get rid of the infestation. Contact them on phone number 647-910-6315 or by sending mail to info@bbppcanada.com and get a free quote.