Drain Cleaner Branches Into Used Cooking Oil Business Per Customers’ Suggestion

For drain cleaners who are interested in diversifying their services but aren’t sure where to start, John Remstedt offers a sound strategy: Just listen to your customers. “One of the main reasons we got into collecting used cooking oil was because our current customers kept asking us if we could do it,” says Remstedt, who owns Grease Masters in St. Charles, a suburb of St. Louis, along with his wife, Pam. “We were able to use our current vacuum truck fleet to do the collection, so all we had to purchase were the oil-collection bins, which cost about $500 apiece. But