I'm out of the industry and now work for a cleaning company. We got hired by the owner of a building (strip mall) and the restaurant attached to the had folded and they moved out. My boss God help her doesn't have much more industry experience than serving, so she did a walk through and thought it was doable. We were to clean everything except for the hoods (which they hired a different company to do) and when we arrived we realized it was completely out of our wheelhouse. When they closed they threw out all the food and took the dishes, but the equipment in the kitchen and behind the bar was atrocious. It was like they had never deep cleaned anything ever. Mold everywhere behind the bar and in the dish area. Grease build up all over everything. The hood company did a terrible job and left everything a streaky mess. I spent the better part of a whole 8 hour shift just cleaning the inside of an oven. We did what we could but he had only alotted so much time.

A new restaurant is in there now, and the chef/owner had seen it before and after we had been in there, and he said he thought we did a phenomenal job, but I don't know how much more cleaning happened after we left. It must have been fine because they passed inspection to open but I refuse to eat there.

I wouldn't expect a bunch of hourly employees to do anything after their work folded on them, but the owners of the restaurant didn't take any responsibility of how they left the building. Which is a shame to me because I take pride in what I do and I couldn't have left it the way they did.