GREASE TRAP TECHNOLOGY has remained virtually unchanged since the first patent was issued to Nathaniel Whiting in 1884. It wouldn’t be until many years later that standards would be adopted to ...

Rolls House, a Korean restaurant in Tacoma’s South End whose owner called attention to the city’s cumbersome and sometimes prohibitively expensive grease-trap policy, closed last month. “I had a bad ...

Tacoma restaurant owners say the city’s rules on grease traps are costing them time and money, stifling development and discouraging culinary creativity. They want relief. The City Council, in what it ...

CHARLESTON — The greasy underbelly of the food industry is delaying openings and costing area restaurant owners tens of thousands of dollars — and sometimes much more. Upper King Street cocktail bar ...