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Full Grout Joints Make Restaurant Kitchen Floors Faster to Clean

When grout joints are full, water and food debris slide right across the floor. When they are empty, your crew spends extra time every night digging them out.

What full joints do for your closing crew

A quarry tile floor with full, level grout joints is one smooth surface. Water, grease, and food debris slide across it to the drain with a squeegee or deck brush. Cleaning goes fast because there is nowhere for anything to hide.

What empty joints cost you

When grout wears down or washes out, every joint becomes a small trench. Food, grease, and dirty water collect in those trenches. Squeegees skip right over them. Your crew has to scrub joint by joint, and even then debris stays behind and starts to smell.

That adds time to every closing shift, every night. Over a year, it adds up to a lot of labor hours spent fighting the floor.

It also matters for inspections

Health codes require kitchen floors to be easily cleanable. Floors with empty, debris-filled joints are hard to clean and easy to write up. Keeping the joints full helps with both your labor and your inspection score.

Keeping joints full

We cut the old, greasy grout out with a wet saw and fill the joints with a premium fast-setting hydraulic grout, overnight after you close. Your crew comes in to a smooth floor that cleans fast from day one.

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