Restaurant Pest Control in Clermont, FL
After close, never mid-serviceYou know the feeling when the inspector walks in unannounced during the lunch rush.
Or when a guest posts a photo of a roach and it sits at the top of your reviews for months. In Florida, pests in a restaurant aren’t a housekeeping problem: they’re a High Priority violation on your inspection record, and one of the most common reasons restaurants get emergency-closed. We treat your kitchen after close, target the drains, dish pit and dry storage where problems start, and leave you with service records ready to hand over. So the next surprise inspection is just another Tuesday.
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Google rating
4.9Across 570+ reviews, homes and businesses.
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Orlando Sentinel
Gold MedalBest Pest Control in Central Florida, 2025.
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Better Business Bureau
A+Zero complaints in the last three years.
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Florida license
JB309802Licensed and insured. The owner is the Certified Operator in Charge.
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Commercial buildings
200–72,000 sq ftA café and a distribution center, one documentation standard.
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Family-owned
Since 2016Clermont office on Highway 50. Not a franchise.
What inspectors look for
DBPR inspects your kitchen. Pests are the finding that closes doors.
Florida restaurants are inspected by the DBPR Division of Hotels & Restaurants, unannounced. Every finding lands in one of three tiers, and pest problems are written up under two named violations, both citing Florida rule FAC 61C-4.019(7).
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Tier 1
High Priority
A direct threat to public health. Pest infestations are named as an example of this tier.
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Tier 2
Intermediate
Could contribute to a health risk if it isn’t corrected.
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Tier 3
Basic
Maintenance, cleanliness and administrative items.
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Violation
“No insects/rodents/animals”
Evidence of insects, rodents or other pests. Cites FAC 61C-4.019(7) and FDA Food Code 6-501.111.
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Violation
“Effective pest control”
Pest control measures that aren’t working. Scattered evidence gets written up; an infestation is High Priority.
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Beyond a violation
Emergency closure
16 of 19Florida pest closures that were roach-driven, Sept. 5–18, 2026
When conditions pose an imminent threat to public health, the state closes the doors on the spot. Roach or rodent activity is a common reason.
This isn’t rare, and it isn’t far away. Between Sept. 5 and 18, 2026, 19 Florida restaurants were emergency-closed for pest activity, 16 of them roach-driven, and from Sept. 30 to Oct. 6, 13 of 15 closures statewide were pest-driven. In Central Florida, 6 of 7 closures between Sept. 8 and 21 were pest-driven. On July 15, 2026, two Clermont restaurants were closed the same day after inspectors found roaches and rodent droppings. Sources: Florida Food Safety’s weekly closure roundups and News 6.
Health code and brand
The pests that fail inspections and end up in reviews.
Five groups an inspector, or a guest, will find first.
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Number one
Cockroaches
German, American (palmetto bugs) and smokybrown. The number one reason Florida restaurants fail inspection. We treat drains, dish pits, dry storage and wall voids after close, use baits that resistant populations still take, and leave records for your inspector.
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High Priority
Small flies
Drain, fruit, house and phorid flies. “Live, small flying insects” is a High Priority violation, and spraying adults doesn’t fix it: small flies mean a breeding site in a drain, a floor crack or the dumpster corral. We find and treat the source.
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Droppings
Rats and mice
Roof rats, Norway rats and house mice come in through the back door, the delivery entrance and the dumpster area. Rats fit through a ½-inch gap, mice through ¼ inch. We inspect, seal entry points and set stations.
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Dry storage
Stored product pests
Indian meal moths, weevils, cigarette and flour beetles live in flour, grain, rice and dry goods, and in kitchen heat they go from egg to adult in under a month. We find the infested lot, treat the storage area and set monitors.
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Prep area
Ants
Ghost and sugar ants find prep areas and soda lines; fire ants own the patio, the walkways and the dumpster pad. We treat trails, voids and mounds, and come back free if they return between visits.
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Not sure?
Tell us what you saw
We identify it on site at the free inspection, then put the plan and the price in writing before any work starts.
Book your free inspection →
Who it’s for
If food is served under your roof, this page is yours.
Different formats, same inspection. Where your operation sits changes where pests get in. It doesn’t change what the inspector writes when they find them.
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Your name on the door
Independent restaurants
There’s no corporate office to absorb a closure day. The program is built so the file is ready before the inspector is: treatment on schedule, records in one place, and a provider whose owner is the certified operator whose license is on the line.
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Front and back of house
Full-service restaurants and bars serving food
A roach crossing the dining room mid-service becomes a photo, then a review. We treat after close across kitchen, bar and dining room, and the Web-Free Guarantee clears entryways, signage and outdoor seating at every visit.
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Deliveries all day
Quick-service, pizza and drive-thrus
A dumpster and grease area out back, doors that never fully close, hours that run late. We watch the back door and the grease zone as hard as the kitchen, and service happens after close, even when close is late.
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Dry goods
Cafés, bakeries and coffee shops
Flour, grain, sugar and beans are exactly what stored product pests live in, and your opener is the one who finds the night’s evidence. Service runs after close the night before, with dry storage treated as seriously as the drains.
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One standard
Multi-unit and franchise operators
You answer to DBPR and to your brand standards. One vendor across your locations means one treatment standard and one documentation format, so a district review or franchisor audit is a folder you hand over.
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Kitchens inside other buildings
Hotel, school and institutional kitchens
The kitchen answers to the same inspection, inside a building with its own schedule. We work around both, and the rest of the building is covered by the same commercial program.
Commercial pest control →
The program, area by area
Walk your kitchen the way an inspector does.
This is what a restaurant exterminator’s program looks like when it’s built for inspections: integrated pest management, the same four steps every visit, in every area an inspector checks. Pick an area to see what that means in your kitchen.
Every visit, four steps
- Find the source
- Treat only where it’s needed
- Keep pests from coming back
- Document the visit
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Cook line
- German cockroaches
- Rodents
- What the inspector looks for
- Live or dead roaches, droppings and grease buildup under and behind the line, in the gaps around equipment legs and where the wall meets the floor.
- What we do, after close
- Bait placed in the cracks, voids and equipment gaps where German roaches breed, the warm spaces a spray can’t reach, once the line is shut down.
- What goes in your record
- Where activity was found along the line, what was applied and where, and any grease buildup or gaps your crew needs to fix.
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Dish pit and dish machine
- German cockroaches
- Drain flies
- What the inspector looks for
- Roaches in the warm, wet voids around the dish machine, and standing water or buildup around the pit.
- What we do, after close
- Bait in the voids around the machine and the pit, and treatment of the drain itself, after the last rack runs.
- What goes in your record
- Activity found around the machine, what was treated, and any leak or standing water your staff needs to fix.
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Floor drains and mop sinks
- Drain flies
- Fruit flies
- Phorid flies
- What the inspector looks for
- Small flies around the drains. “Live, small flying insects” is a High Priority violation.
- What we do, after close
- Treat the breeding site inside the drain, because spraying adult flies doesn’t fix it.
- What goes in your record
- Which drains were breeding flies, what was treated, and any cleaning or repairs that keep it from coming back.
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Dry storage
- Stored product pests
- Rodents
- What the inspector looks for
- Moths, weevils or beetles in dry goods, and droppings on shelves and on the floor under the lowest shelf.
- What we do, after close
- Find the infested lot, treat the storage area, and set monitors so one bad delivery doesn’t spread through the shelves.
- What goes in your record
- Which product was infested, where monitors are, and storage fixes like getting goods up off the floor.
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Bar, soda guns and lines
- Fruit flies
- Ants
- What the inspector looks for
- Fruit flies around the soda guns, the lines and the bar drains, and ants working sugary spills.
- What we do, after close
- Treat the bar drains and the ant trails and voids behind the bar, after the last call.
- What goes in your record
- What was found at the bar, what was treated, and the cleaning the bar crew needs to keep up.
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Back door, delivery entrance and dock
- Rats and mice
- Cockroaches
- What the inspector looks for
- Gaps under the door and around wall penetrations, and droppings near the entrance.
- What we do, after close
- Inspect and seal entry points (rats fit through ½ inch, mice through ¼ inch) and set stations where they travel.
- What goes in your record
- Gaps found and sealed, station locations, and door repairs for your maintenance list.
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Dumpster and grease area
- House flies
- Rats
- Fire ants
- What the inspector looks for
- Fly breeding in the corral, rodent activity around the bins, and fire ant mounds on the pad.
- What we do, after close
- Treat the dumpster and grease zone as hard as the kitchen: fly sources, rodent stations and mounds.
- What goes in your record
- What was found outside, what was treated, and sanitation the hauler or your crew needs to handle.
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Dining room, entry and patio
- Cockroaches
- Ants
- Spiders and wasps
- What a guest sees first
- A roach crossing the floor mid-service becomes a photo, then a review. Webs and nests at the entry are the first thing a guest walks past.
- What we do, after close
- Treat after close, never mid-service, and clear webs, egg sacs and wasp nests from entryways, signage and outdoor seating at every visit under the Web-Free Guarantee.
- What goes in your record
- Front-of-house activity, what was treated, and anything the closing crew should change.
Every commercial plan covers eight pest groups, including cockroaches, rodents, flies and stored product pests. Termites, bed bugs and mosquitoes are separate services, quoted in writing before you sign. Visit frequency is set in your written plan from what the free inspection finds.
The visit record
The visit record is what your manager hands over.
Every visit ends with a written report you can hand straight to an inspector. It shows the date and who did the service, which areas were inspected and what was found, what was applied and where, what your staff needs to fix (sanitation, storage, door gaps), and when the next visit is.
Keep the reports in one on-site file, in date order, with our license number and your written service plan, where a manager on any shift can find them. When an inspector asks what’s being done about pests, the file is the answer: dated reports, a plan and a license.
A Callback on your record means an earlier problem is being rechecked. That’s the visit the file exists for: the treatment, the fixes the report called for, and every scheduled visit since.
Every visit
Written report
Ready to hand to the inspector
Florida license
JB309802
Our records
2 years
Kept under Florida rule 5E-14.142
On your file
The owner
Kevin is the Certified Operator in Charge
Certifications and recognition
- Florida Certified Pest Control Operator
- Rodent Standards Certified, National Wildlife Control Operators Association
- Lake & Sumter Style 40 Under 40, 2025
- Voted #1 Best Pest Control in Clermont, 2021
“I wouldn’t be where I am today without the help of my team and my community.”
Kevin Sukovich, owner
Plan terms
It starts with a free inspection. It runs on published terms.
Nothing to sign before we’ve seen your kitchen. Here’s what you get when you do.
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Step one
Free inspection, written quote
A certified technician walks your facility inside and out, finds active pests and what’s drawing them in, and builds the plan around your building, your hours and your inspection requirements.
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Pricing
Priced per property
Size, layout, pest pressure and visit frequency all move the number, so the price follows the inspection: in writing, before any work starts.
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Agreement
No long-term contract
A service agreement you can cancel at any time, for any reason. We keep track of your service schedule so you don’t have to.
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Between visits
Free re-services
If pests return between scheduled visits, we come back at no charge.
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Accountability
Your money back if it persists
If an issue persists after two consecutive re-treatments, we refund your last full service payment.
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Every visit
100% Web-Free Guarantee
Webs, spider egg sacs, paper-wasp nests and mud daubers cleared from eaves, overhangs, entryways, signage and outdoor seating at every scheduled visit.
Free re-services, the refund and the Web-Free Guarantee come with every commercial service plan.
If an inspector finds something
A violation, a Callback or a closure. Here’s the way back.
A violation is written up and corrected. A Callback rechecks the correction. An emergency closure stops service until a re-inspection shows the High Priority violations are fixed; closures are followed by callback inspections, on a 24-hour cycle per news coverage of DBPR closures. The first moves are the same for all three.
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That day
Call your pest provider
Get a treatment visit scheduled the day it happens. Call or text (407) 360-7325.
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In writing
Get the findings documented
Where activity was found, what was treated, and what your staff needs to fix.
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Your crew
Clean and close the gaps
Clean where the activity was found, not just where the public sees, and fix door gaps, wall penetrations and standing water.
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One folder
Put it all together
The inspection report, the provider’s visit record, and your cleaning and repair notes.
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Re-inspection
Walk the inspector through it
The manager on shift can show what was done, area by area.
What Webenex does
We treat the activity, document it in writing, fix forward the conditions we can, and re-service free between visits under your plan. A real person from our Clermont office calls or texts you back within 15 minutes during business hours; after hours, first thing in the morning.
Who decides the reopening
DBPR does, after its re-inspection. What we control is that the treatment is done right and the paperwork is ready when the inspector walks back in. If that’s why you’re here, skip the rest and call (407) 360-7325.
Restaurant operators ask us these
Make the next surprise inspection just another Tuesday.
Start with a free inspection. We walk the kitchen the way an inspector does and leave you a written plan and quote before any work starts. Run more than a restaurant? See commercial pest control. Want the rulebook first? Read the guide to Florida restaurant inspection requirements.
How often does a restaurant need pest control?
The guidance tied to Florida’s restaurant pest-control rule calls for “regular inspections” without naming a number, so the honest answer depends on your building. Your frequency goes in your written service plan, based on what the inspection finds: pest pressure, layout, hours and history. We set it at the free inspection, and an inspector can be told exactly why your kitchen is on the schedule it’s on.
What happens if we fail an inspection for pests?
It’s written up as a violation. Evidence of pests (“No insects/rodents/animals”) and ineffective pest control (“Effective pest control”) are both listed violations under FAC 61C-4.019(7), and pest infestations are named as an example of the High Priority tier. If inspectors find conditions that pose an imminent threat, the state may order an immediate closure, and reopening comes only after a re-inspection shows the High Priority violations are corrected. Your service file, with dated reports, a written plan and the provider’s license, is what shows the correction is a system, not a scramble.
Do you treat during service?
Never. We treat after close, scheduled around your hours, including late closes. Your guests never see a technician, your crew never works around one, and treatments in food areas follow the FDA Food Code’s pesticide rules (7-206).
What documentation do we get?
A written report after every visit: the date and who performed the service, which areas were inspected and what was found, what was applied and where, what your staff needs to fix, and when the next visit is scheduled. Keep them in one on-site file, in date order, with our license number (JB309802) and your written service plan. On our side, Florida rule 5E-14.142 requires us to keep our records for at least two years and to record each application within two working days.
Which pests are covered, and which aren’t?
Every commercial plan covers eight pest groups, including the four that fail inspections: cockroaches, rodents, flies and stored product pests. Termites, bed bugs and mosquitoes are separate services with separate quotes. If your property needs one of them, we’ll say so at the inspection and quote it in writing, before you sign.
We just had a sighting, or a closure. What now?
Call or text (407) 360-7325. The first moves are the same either way: treat the activity, get the findings in writing, fix what gave pests access or shelter, and put the paperwork in one folder for the re-inspection. A real person from our Clermont office calls or texts you back within 15 minutes during business hours (after hours, first thing in the morning) and tells you when a technician can be there.
How is it priced?
Per property, after a free inspection, in a written quote before any work starts. Size, layout, pest pressure and the visit frequency your plan sets all move the number, which is why it’s quoted rather than published. There’s no long-term contract: the service agreement can be cancelled at any time.