Source: The Atlanta Journal Constitution The stock market has plunged, interest rates have climbed, inflation may be biting, and talk of recession is in the air, but business has been pretty good at Filta Environmental Kitchen Solutions. Like many Georgia employers, the Athens-based company has been less worried about finding customers and more worried about obtaining workers […]
Continue Reading →First the pandemic and now a war. World events have created an unsuspecting victim: commercial kitchens that rely on cooking oil. But the good news is that there’s a way to extend the life of your precious cooking oil while also reducing its overall consumption. Saga of the Shortage In May of 2021, this time […]
Continue Reading →April 22 is Earth Day, but Filta clients work each and every day to save the planet by filtering and extending the life of cooking with FiltaFry, reducing energy consumption and food waste with FiltaCool, and turning oil into biodiesel with FiltaBio. With Filta as a partner, commercial kitchens across the country and the world […]
Continue Reading →From sea to shining sea, there’s a lot of extraordinary food – fried food. And no better place to spot it than at state fairs across the U.S., which offer an extravaganza of indulgence, fun and once-a-year extremes of sights, sounds and tastes – some of the strangest being fried. From fried collard greens (healthy, […]
Continue Reading →As we reported a couple of weeks ago, FiltaCon2022 was a huge success. “All Systems Go” was the theme and all pistons were surely firing as Franchisees developed new skills, refined business practices, and learned tips and techniques to improve Filta’s operations coast to coast. But FiltaCon is much more than all business and, as […]
Continue Reading →Filta Franchise Owners attended in full force when FiltaCon2022 kicked off the first weekend of March. Nearly 100 Franchisees attended, arriving from California to Connecticut, Washington to West Virginia, and anywhere in between. Everyone was eager to get together for the first time since the pandemic and all systems were a go for a productive […]
Continue Reading →Fried foods are delicious and easy to cook at home, but oil clean-up can have a less than pleasant outcome if you don’t dispose of it properly. Pouring it down the drain – or any bit of plumbing – can have catastrophic effects not only on the plumbing at your own house but also down […]
Continue Reading →Food waste is staggering. In the United States, restaurants generate an estimated 22 to 33 billion pounds of food waste every year, and institutions like schools, hotels, and hospitals are responsible for an additional 7 to 11 billion pounds. Pair these gigantic numbers with the fact that 12.3% of Americans experienced food insecurity in 2016, […]
Continue Reading →Simply Buckhead, a monthly magazine in the Atlanta area, takes a look at how local restaurants are using eco-friendly ways to save Mother Earth – including using Filta’s microfiltration services which ultimately result in cooking oil being recycled into biodiesel fuel. Writer Michael Jacobs not only covered how John Lopez, Filta’s franchisee in the Atlanta […]
Continue Reading →Tom Dunn, Filta’s CEO, recently told Retail & Restaurant Facility Business how the company can help restaurants and commercial kitchens nationwide keep cooking oil prices low and also assist with the labor shortage. In the Q&A, Dunn outlines how Filta comes into a kitchen and extends the life of cooking oil by micro-filtering it instead […]
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