A restaurant is two buildings for pricing purposes. The front of house is cleaned like retail, on a tight nightly schedule with a high standard because customers see it. The kitchen is a different job with different equipment, different chemicals and different frequencies, and the specialist work behind it is usually not the cleaning contractor's at all.
Front of house and kitchen, priced apart
Mixing them into one rate hides which half is under-specified, and it is almost always the kitchen. Ask for the two areas quoted separately even if one contractor does both, because the frequencies that make sense for each are not the same.
What is not in a cleaning contract
Kitchen exhaust hood and duct cleaning is a fire safety service on its own schedule, and grease trap work is a drainage service. Both are specialist trades with their own contractors, and a cleaning proposal that appears to include either is worth reading carefully.
The nightly close and why it is not cleaning
Most restaurants have kitchen staff doing a close every night. The contractor's work sits on top of that, and the boundary between the two is the thing to write down: a contract priced assuming a thorough close, delivered after a rushed one, fails within a month.
Frequency is set by service, not by area
A site open seven days needs seven visits, and the size of the dining room barely moves that. This is the building type where frequency dominates the price most clearly, which is why a small restaurant open every day can cost more to clean than a far larger office cleaned three nights a week.
Questions people ask about restaurant cleaning services cost
How much does restaurant cleaning cost?
It is priced from the same units as other commercial cleaning, with the kitchen typically above front of house. The published ranges on this site are the national reference point.
Is hood cleaning included?
No. Kitchen exhaust cleaning is a separate fire safety service on its own interval, and it is usually a different contractor.
How often should a restaurant be cleaned?
In practice every day it opens, with periodic deep work on the kitchen on a shorter cycle than most other building types.
Who cleans the grease trap?
A drainage specialist rather than the cleaning contractor. It is worth confirming who holds that contract before assuming it is covered.