ORLANDO, Fla. — Summer is here and amusement park attendance is up nationwide. Thanks to presentations last fall at the Annual Amusement & Theme Park Food Service Conference, more parks coast to coast learned about Filta Environmental Kitchen Solutions (Filta) services that help save kitchens time and money. Filta’s proprietary method of micro-filtering cooking oil many times stretches this increasingly expensive commodity and removes debris while making kitchens safer for employees by eliminating the potential for burn accidents. At the end of its life, Filta removes waste oil and recycles it into biodiesel, a significant eco-win.

Amusement and theme parks across the country currently using Filta’s services include Hersheypark in Pennsylvania, Trader’s Village in Houston, Wild Waves Theme and Waterpark in Seattle, Louisville’s Kentucky Kingdom & Hurricane Bay, several Fun Spot locations in Florida, and many other parks.

David Hoover, the long-time Filta franchise owner in Harrisburg, Penn., began working with Hershey Entertainment and Resorts about five years ago by servicing the Giant Center hockey arena. Management saw such positive benefits from Filta’s oil and grease kitchen management services that they expanded the service into Hersheypark a year later. Today, Hoover and his team of Filta technicians service 91 fryers at Hersheypark and another 21 in the Giant Center.

This successful venture at Hersheypark spurred Filta to attend the 2021 Amusement & Theme Park Food Service Conference where other potential park clients learned of Filta’s environmental positives as well as kitchen cost and safety benefits.

For every gallon of biodiesel put into use, Filta prevents 16 pounds of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere. Since the company’s launch in North America in 1996, Filta has recycled nearly 1 billion pounds of used cooking oil into biodiesel, significantly reducing the impact of fryer oil on the environment.

“The amusement park sector was largely an untapped vertical for our owners when we launched in the Americas in the early 2000s,” said Tom Dunn, Filta CEO. “With our presence at the amusement park food service conference last fall, the potential was apparent to help these commercial kitchens in parks nationwide. We’ll be back at the 45^th Annual Amusement & Theme Park Food Service Conference this September in the Cleveland area, near Ohio’s Cedar Point.”

The price of vegetable oil has more than doubled since the pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine began, causing many commercial kitchens to sacrifice profitability as well as scramble to find cooking oil for their fryers. Filta can help commercial kitchens with its proprietary filtration and fryer management process, extending the life of oil by micro-filtering instead of dumping as well as assist commercial kitchens with labor savings since Filta technicians manage the fryer oil work, rather than employees. Additionally, Filta helps the environment by reducing packaging costs and recycling oil that has reached the end of its useful life, ensuring it is converted into biodiesel.

Filta makes commercial kitchens safer, more efficient, and more environmentally sustainable by micro-filtering existing cooking oil, providing bin-free waste oil collection, deep cleaning fryers, and recycling waste oil. Customers range from single and chain restaurants to commercial kitchens inside casinos, hospitals, hotels, groceries, universities, business facilities, stadiums (NFL, NCAA, MLB, NHL), and more. Filta has recycled nearly 1 billion pounds of used cooking oil into biodiesel, significantly reducing the impact of fryer oil on the environment. For every gallon of biodiesel put into use, Filta prevents 16 pounds of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere.  

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