Commercial Kitchen pest problems

I'm a sous-chef at a corporate Kitchen and we've had a house fly problem since they decided to place the Kitchen right next to a pub with a door. I've managed to eliminate all the fruit flies with heavy detail cleaning and couple other methods but the house flies refuse to relent.

I've started placing fresh basil at certain areas that deters them but looking for a better (food safe) method. Probably never going to go the route of fly paper or chemical sprays. Anyone have any experience in this?

Drains are detail cleaned every night (well at least every night that I'm there), and we spray a steritech product along all edges, casters and drains. That's fixed the fruit fly problem. We have open displays of our food though so they buzz around those except we're ive placed the basil (and that only deters them, not stop them).

As much as I'd like to use bait and traps, it won't be happening. So says the Powers that Be (It's an upscale place so that doesn't really look great). I've been looking more for a foodsafe oil that I can spray that repulses them.

Famm_sl said:

And then let the customers hunt the cats and you can turn them into General Tso's Chicken. Should end up being the most popular eatery in town.

Seriously though, shouldn't there be some repository of information on dealing with pests in restaurants already? You would think you learn this shit by the time you get promoted to manager. Rerolled is for like learning how to buy cars or have sex with a girl and other impossibly technical and obscure tasks.

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I was kitchen manager at another restaurant for years prior and they used hidden fly traps. Current one would not allow that. It's a really finicky business when it comes to what chemicals and processes we use. I solved the problem though. I created an oil using basil and mint that we can rub on trouble areas every so often. Works pretty well.

/shrug. It's their playground.

The oil smells nice and works though and though they really loved the idea. Review next week, bitches.