Work order management and trades coordination for hospitality operators.
Restaurant Facilities:Who Keeps Locations Running
51 companies across the 7 layers between a broken fryer and someone fixing it.
Facilities is the largest vendor ecosystem around restaurants and the least written about. It is also the one where the brand on the contract is most often not the company that turns up: several of the biggest names here are federations of regional service companies rather than single national operators.
That structure is the reason this page leads with a layer diagram rather than a grid of logos. Knowing that an aggregator sits between the operator and the technician is worth more than knowing another vendor name, because it tells you who actually signs and who actually serves.
- 51
- companies
- 7
- categories
- Restaurant facilities & equipment software13
- Contractor-side field service software4
- National multi-site service networks5
- Kitchen equipment & refrigeration service7
- Grease, cooking oil & liquid waste9
- Pest, sanitation, waste & water8
- Fire, life safety & energy5
Last updated August 2026
The channel
Nobody in this chain sells straight to the restaurant.
The brand on the contract is rarely the company holding the wrench. An operator signs a chain-wide agreement with an aggregator, who dispatches through a regional network, who sends a technician who may work for none of them. Several of the largest names here are federations of regional companies rather than single national operators — which is why this market cannot be read as a list of logos.
- 1Operator software
- 2Multi-site aggregator
- 3Regional service network
- 4Local technician
The vocabulary
Terms you will hear on every call in this world.
- Facilities manager
- Owns the physical estate across an operator's locations; the buyer for most recurring service contracts.
- Service contract
- Recurring per-location maintenance agreement — the revenue model for most of this world.
The map
Who is actually in this market.
01
Restaurant facilities & equipment software
13The defensible core of this market and the layer a buyer can actually enumerate — restaurant and multi-site repair-and-maintenance platforms, frontline operations, and equipment IoT. It is a short list, and that is the finding.
Restaurant repair-and-maintenance platform with vendor management and asset analytics. Its own footer now reads 'A Parts Town Unlimited Company'.
Restaurant-focused CMMS for asset tracking, work orders and vendor coordination.
Multi-location facilities platform with a service-provider marketplace. Owned by Fortive.
Enterprise CMMS for high-volume work order, asset and vendor management. A JLL product.
Facilities and HVAC/R management for multi-location operators, with restaurants a primary industry.
Facilities and maintenance management listing restaurants as a served sector.
Multi-location maintenance for work orders, assets, inspections and vendor coordination.
Restaurant operations software covering checklists, tasks and daily execution.
Frontline operations app with restaurant checklists, food safety and equipment maintenance.
Cloud and IoT monitoring, diagnostics and menu updates across Welbilt-brand equipment.
Open Kitchen IoT for restaurant equipment and energy monitoring. Owned by Middleby, which its own site does not mention.
IoT condition monitoring and digital task management, including foodservice temperature and HACCP logging.
02
Contractor-side field service software
4What the HVAC, refrigeration and fire vendors themselves run on. Worth knowing because it is where a restaurant's service history actually lives — on the contractor's system, not the operator's.
Trades software for dispatch, scheduling, CRM and invoicing, with a commercial kitchen equipment service offering.
Field service management for commercial contractors including refrigeration, fire protection and kitchen exhaust cleaning.
Commercial contractor platform spanning mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire and refrigeration.
Asset intelligence for field technicians — equipment history, guided workflows and AI job summaries.
03
National multi-site service networks
5The aggregators who take a chain-wide contract and then dispatch through a network they mostly do not employ. This is the layer that makes the market hard to map: the brand on the contract is rarely the company holding the wrench.
Property and facilities maintenance platform and vendor network across 100+ metros.
Facility maintenance across 40+ trades including foodservice equipment and refrigeration.
Nationwide interior and exterior facility maintenance for multi-site organisations.
Service programmes for multi-site operators — maintenance, landscaping, snow, paving, signage and rollouts.
Total facility maintenance, self-performing in 18 states and brokering the remainder through partners.
04
Kitchen equipment & refrigeration service
7The companies that actually fix the fryer and the walk-in. Several are roll-ups of regional service companies rather than single national operators, which is worth knowing before you pitch one as a single account.
Commercial equipment repair across cooking, refrigeration, HVAC and beverage. A portfolio of regional service providers.
Nationwide HVAC-R across design, install, maintenance and monitoring, with restaurants a named segment.
Commercial foodservice equipment repair and preventative maintenance, operating through owned and partner companies.
A network of 40+ member commercial foodservice equipment service companies.
Self-performing commercial HVAC/R and kitchen equipment service from 40+ regional offices.
Commercial kitchen equipment repair, install and planned maintenance, weighted to the Southeast.
OEM foodservice equipment parts distribution. Also owns 86 Repairs and Heritage Parts.
05
Grease, cooking oil & liquid waste
9The most genuinely restaurant-specific physical category on this page. Nothing else in facilities exists purely because a kitchen has a fryer.
Automated cooking oil delivery, filtration, monitoring and used-oil recycling for commercial kitchens.
Used cooking oil collection, grease trap cleaning and by-product collection. A Darling Ingredients brand.
Rendering, restaurant grease collection and jetting; family owned since 1937.
Used cooking oil pickup, grease trap cleaning and fresh oil delivery across 50 states.
Franchise network for fryer oil filtration, waste oil collection and kitchen deep cleaning.
Commercial kitchen exhaust hood cleaning plus filters, grease traps and exhaust fans.
Non-hazardous liquid waste — grease trap and interceptor cleaning, used cooking oil, drain lines.
Grease, septic and drain services, self-operating from 50+ locations.
Commercial drain cleaning and grease trap pumping.
06
Pest, sanitation, waste & water
8Recurring, compliance-driven services sold per location. Ownership here is heavily consolidated and largely invisible on the operating brands' own sites.
Restaurant pest elimination via inspection, targeted treatment, exclusion and monitoring.
Commercial pest control with a dedicated foodservice offering. Rollins is the public parent.
Commercial pest management including foodservice. Owned by Rentokil North America.
Route-based commercial hygiene franchise — restroom hygiene, drain treatment, tile and pressure washing.
Commercial water filtration for coffee, beverage, ice and steam applications.
Waste and recycling services plus a platform consolidating pickups, equipment and costs.
Fully managed waste and recycling across multi-location portfolios; owns no trucks or landfills.
Enterprise waste and recycling across 130+ streams including food waste and used cooking oil.
07
Fire, life safety & energy
5Inspection-driven and increasingly financed rather than sold — energy-as-a-service vendors install upgrades at no upfront cost and recoup through savings.
Fire, security and life safety inspection, service and installation across all 50 states.
Fire protection install, maintenance and monitoring including kitchen fire suppression.
Fire protection including kitchen suppression, extinguishers, alarms and emergency lighting.
Energy-as-a-service — finances and installs efficiency upgrades at no upfront cost, recouped through savings.
Energy management with equipment-level monitoring and automated HVAC control.
Restaurant-first, and national.
Local trades are deliberately out of scope. There are thousands of excellent HVAC, plumbing and pest companies serving restaurants in one metro, and no map can represent them honestly. What is on this page operates across many states, or is software built for restaurant operators and the contractors serving them.
Horizontal maintenance platforms are excluded on the same test the rest of Restaurant B2B uses: real products, commonly evaluated by restaurant operators, but not built restaurant-first. It is a map, not a ranking.
Serving restaurant facilities nationally and not on here?
Contact LumitraWhere this industry gathers
The associations, publications and shows that matter here.
RFMA
Restaurant Facility Management Association — facilities professionals and the vendors serving them; vendor membership, CRFP certification and an annual conference.
Facilitator Magazine
RFMA's official publication, six issues a year; accepts article and Best Practices submissions from the facilities ecosystem.
The Ron & Don Show
RFMA's own restaurant facilities podcast.
CFESA
Equipment service companies — overlapping ecosystem for refrigeration, repair and installation.
Selling into restaurant facilities
Everything that happens before the first call.
A facilities contract is priced per location, so the account is the operator and never the single restaurant. Lumitra maps locations to the operator that owns them, and keeps closed locations out of the list.