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Who is Bare Metal Standard

Bare Metal Standard is the industry’s leading commercial kitchen exhaust cleaning company. We have serviced commercial kitchen exhaust for fire safety since 1964

Bare Metal Standard is a commercial facility service company. We provide risk assessment and risk mitigation services to the commercial cooking operations in the form of kitchen exhaust hood cleaning. This cleaning is provided as fire safety services to protect lives and livelihoods.

WHY is this necessary?

As fire codes have been developed over the years, commercial cooking operations have been one of the highest risks for any commercial facility. Fires occur when you have all three elements: heat / oxygen / fuel. In kitchen exhaust systems, all three are present at all times with the fuel being the grease.

Grease is a natural byproduct of cooking operations and with collect throughout the exhaust system. Fire codes were then developed to help guide the industry to best practices on how and when this grease needed to be removed.

Bare Metal Standard – A Legacy Begins

Bare Metal Standard began servicing kitchen exhaust systems for fire safety before any fire
codes required it. Working directly with commercial cooking facility owners who identified a
need to reduce the risk of fire, we began our efforts in 1964.

1964
THE STORY BEGINS
The Taylor Family Opens up hood cleaning business, servicing the first customer, The Big Bun Drive In.
1989
GROWING THE BUSINESS
Mike Taylor opens up the first office outside of Idaho. He moves him and his family to Phoenix, AZ to grow.
1999
SECOND GENERATION
Mike Taylor takes over the family business as the owner and operator.
2004
COMPANY EXPANSION
James Bedal joins the Bare Metal Standard team and over the next few years the company expands organically into other states: Utah, Oklahoma, and Texas.
2019
HELD STRONG DURING COVID
During COVID lockdowns we were able to keep working and are very proud that we did not let a single employee go.
2020
CONTINUED EXPANSION
Opening corporate owned location in Arizona, Texas, and Washington.
2021
I-3 TRAINING PROGRAM
The initial training of our in-house employee certification program to train technicians and instructors.
2024
EOS - IMPLEMENTATION
To help with our intercompany communication we onboarded EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) management structure to provide transparency and streamline communication.
2025
HALL OF FAME
Bare Metal Standard started its Hall of Fame Award to showcase the legends within our company throughout the years.
TODAY
ADVANCEMENT
Today you are a part of Bare Metal Standard history and its future. We are honored to have you work here with us.

Today, our service processes and technologies have increased drastically, but our mission remains the same. If you want to learn more about our history, watch our Legacy video below:

Purpose

Providing Needed Services to the Highest Standards

Kitchen Exhaust Services

Bare Metal Standard is the best provider in the kitchen exhaust cleaning industry. We can make this statement with confidence because we have been in the industry for so long that we are never comfortable or complacent. We are always innovating and bringing new technologies into our service process to provide better and more affordable services to our customers.

Core Values

We are able to do this because of our Core Values that are instilled at every level of our company. Our company Core Values are:

Work Ethic

Go the Extra Mile, Problem Solver, Industry Standard Knowledge, Subject-Matter-Expert (SME), Educator, Experience, Smart.

Uncompromising

Professionalism, Leader, Authentic, Does the Right Thing, Commitment to Performance, No compromises, Prepared.

Excellence

Outcome of our effort, the Bare Metal Standard Promise, Expert Excellence, Fanatical attention to Consistency & Detail, Making our company better.

All In

The Best, Your Best, Our Best, Trust, Loyalty, Integrity, Driven, Positive attitude.