We’re not just another pump truck. We’re the only grease management company in NWA with its own regional recycling and processing facility — and we built it specifically because the region needed one.
Walk through the grease trap pumping market in NWA and you’ll find a familiar pattern: companies that show up when they feel like it, pump your trap, hand you a receipt with no manifest documentation, and haul the waste to an out-of-state disposal site — adding cost, risk, and uncertainty at every step.
Restaurant owners end up in one of two situations: either they’re calling whoever picks up the phone when the trap backs up (reactive, expensive, stressful), or they’re locked into a schedule with a company that doesn’t prioritize commercial accounts and treats the service like a sideline.
Neither works. Not when a health inspector can walk through your door at any time. Not when a missed pump can shut down your kitchen. Not when FOG compliance is a legal obligation, not an optional expense.
Ozark Grease Pros was built as the answer to exactly that gap — a specialist grease management company with real infrastructure, designed from the ground up to serve the commercial food service sector in Northwest Arkansas.
Every other grease trap pumping company in NWA is a hauler. They pump your trap and drive the waste somewhere else — usually a disposal site in Tulsa, Little Rock, or further. That means longer transit, higher disposal costs passed back to you, and a supply chain with more points of failure.
Ozark Grease Pros is the destination. Our licensed grease processing and recycling facility in Siloam Springs, AR is where the waste goes — ours and other pumping companies’. We process it on-site: oil is extracted and recycled, water is treated to meet Arkansas discharge standards. The loop closes here.
What This Means
Ozark Grease Pros
Other NWA Pumpers
Disposal destination
Our Siloam Springs facility (local)
Tulsa, Little Rock, or further
Haul distance from NWA
30–50 miles (Siloam Springs)
100–300+ miles
Grease actually recycled?
Yes — on-site processing
Disposal only — no recycling
Manifest documentation
Issued every service call
Varies — not always provided
Water treatment compliance
On-site, licensed discharge
Third-party, unverified
B2B tipping fee access
Yes — $0.20/gal for haulers
No — they pay others
Most grease trap pumping companies in NWA won’t give you a price until they’re standing in front of your trap. Ozark Grease Pros operates on a transparent per-gallon model — you know the rate before we show up, and you’re billed based on documented manifest volume, not an estimate.
Service
Pricing Model
Direct grease trap pumping
~$0.40 per gallon — billed per manifest volume pumped
Grease trap cleaning
Combined with pumping service — contact for current rate
B2B disposal / tipping fee
$0.20 per gallon — for haulers bringing waste to our facility
Scheduled maintenance program
Custom contract — monthly or quarterly, fixed schedule
Used cooking oil collection
Contact for rate — typically per-pickup or monthly contract
What ‘per-gallon billing’ means for your restaurant:
Your trap is pumped and the volume is documented on the manifest. You’re billed for what was actually removed — not a flat rate that doesn’t reflect the real job. If your 500-gallon trap is only 60% full, you’re billed for what we pumped. Transparent. Auditable. No surprises.
FOG (Fats, Oils & Grease) compliance is a regulated obligation for food service operators in Northwest Arkansas. Municipalities across the NWA metro — Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers, Bentonville, and others — require restaurants to maintain functioning grease traps and, in many cases, to provide documented proof of regular service as part of their FOG compliance programs.
A lot of grease trap pumping companies in the region don’t consistently produce that documentation. A verbal confirmation that the trap was pumped doesn’t hold up when the health department asks for records.
Ozark Grease Pros issues a signed waste manifest on every service call, every time — no exceptions. That manifest documents:
This is the paper trail your restaurant needs. Keep it on file — it’s your answer if an inspector ever asks. |
Read our complete FOG compliance guide for Northwest Arkansas restaurants →
Reactive grease trap service is expensive, disruptive, and a sign that the system isn’t working. When a trap backs up during a Friday dinner rush, you’re not calling for routine maintenance — you’re in emergency mode. Emergency calls cost more, create more kitchen disruption, and put your compliance at risk because you weren’t on a schedule.
Ozark Grease Pros sets up restaurants on recurring maintenance programs tailored to trap size and kitchen volume. You get a fixed schedule, predictable costs, and the assurance that your trap is serviced before it becomes a problem — not after.
Restaurant Type
Recommended Service Frequency
High-volume fast food / QSR
Monthly — traps fill quickly with high-throughput frying operations
Full-service / casual dining
Every 30–60 days — moderate FOG output, health department compliance focus
Cafeteria / institutional kitchen
Quarterly or bi-monthly — depends on menu and serving volume
Multi-location groups
Coordinated schedule across all locations — one contract, one contact
Restaurants with grease interceptors
Less frequent — quarterly typical, depends on interceptor size
B2B haulers using our disposal facility
As needed — manifest-based billing on every haul
Most plumbing and drain service companies in Northwest Arkansas offer grease trap pumping as one line item on a long list — alongside residential drain clearing, water heater installation, sewer repair, and a dozen other services. Grease trap work is a sideline, not a specialty.
Ozark Grease Pros does only grease management. Grease trap pumping. Grease trap cleaning. Grease recycling. Used cooking oil collection. That’s the entire scope. No residential calls. No fixture repairs. No emergency plumbing. Every piece of equipment we run, every schedule we build, every manifest we issue — it’s all for commercial food service.
For restaurants, that specialization matters. It means the person scheduling your service understands pumping frequency by trap size. It means our technicians know what a properly cleaned trap looks like versus one that still has residual solids. It means we understand FOG ordinance language and can tell you what your local municipality requires — because we work with those requirements every day.
What we don’t do — by design:
This focus makes us better at what we do — and more reliable for the restaurants that depend on us. |
The Northwest Arkansas metro stretches across Benton and Washington counties — from Siloam Springs in the west through Bentonville, Rogers, Springdale, and Fayetteville to the east. Add outlying communities like Gentry, Bella Vista, Centerton, and Farmington, and you have a region where a restaurant group with multiple locations could easily be dealing with three or four different local service providers.
Our processing facility in Siloam Springs sits at the heart of an 80-mile service radius that covers every major market in NWA — including border communities in Missouri and Oklahoma. Multi-location restaurant operators get a single point of contact, a coordinated service schedule, and consistent manifest documentation across all sites.
What You're Evaluating
Ozark Grease Pros
Typical NWA Pumping Company
Recycling / processing facility
Yes — Siloam Springs, AR (only one in NWA)
No — hauls to Tulsa or Little Rock
Manifest documentation
Every job, every time — signed & filed
Inconsistent — not always provided
Pricing model
Transparent per-gallon — billed on manifest
Flat rate or estimate — varies by company
Scheduled maintenance programs
Yes — custom frequency per kitchen volume
Emergency-only or loose scheduling
Commercial-only focus
Yes — no residential, no general plumbing
Often a sideline to broader plumbing work
Service area
80-mile radius — all NWA + MO/OK border
Varies — many limited to 1–2 cities
UCO collection
Yes — bins + scheduled pickup
Rarely offered
B2B disposal for other haulers
Yes — tipping fee: $0.20/gal
No
Environmental recycling output
Oil extracted, water treated on-site
Disposal only
Grease trap pumping, cleaning, and recycling is a regulated waste management process — not a general drain service. Specialists understand FOG ordinance requirements, proper manifest documentation, pumping frequency by trap size, and compliant disposal. A general plumber adding grease trap service as a sideline rarely provides the compliance documentation or consistency that a restaurant needs for health inspection readiness.
With Ozark Grease Pros, every load goes to our licensed grease processing facility in Siloam Springs, AR — not a field, not an unlicensed site, not a Tulsa disposal yard with an 8-hour haul attached. Every job produces a signed manifest that documents the disposal destination. That documentation is your legal protection.
Grease traps are typically smaller under-sink units found in restaurants — 250 to 1,000 gallons. Grease interceptors are larger in-ground systems often required for high-volume operations or larger commercial facilities. Both require regular pumping and cleaning; frequency and pricing differ by unit size and kitchen volume. Ozark Grease Pros services both.
Yes. Multi-location restaurant groups are one of our core client types. We coordinate service schedules across all your NWA locations, issue manifests per site, and provide a single point of contact for billing and scheduling. That consolidation eliminates the patchwork of different local vendors that most restaurant groups end up managing.
Not necessarily. Many of our restaurant clients run scheduled service during off-hours or early morning before kitchen prep. We work around your kitchen schedule. You receive the manifest documentation after each service call regardless of whether you’re on-site during the work.
Schedule your first grease trap service with Ozark Grease Pros and experience what a specialist grease management company looks like — manifest documentation included, every time.
