Filters and canopy
Baffles washed, plenum degreased, mesh filters flagged if they are still in the hood.

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Alpharetta kitchens cook twice. Office corridors along Windward and North Point fill the hood at lunch, and the same dining rooms, or a different one downtown, run dinner. That double day is why a default six-month hood date goes stale here faster than the calendar suggests.
Two meal periods load a hood faster than one.
North Point and Windward were built around daytime offices. The kitchens that feed those offices run hard from late morning through early afternoon, then a lot of them reset for dinner. Haynes Bridge and Old Milton add shopping-center volume on top of that. A hood that "only looks a little dark" in the filter bank can still carry a quarter's worth of grease in the fan.
Downtown Alpharetta is the other pattern: tighter buildings, evening traffic, and roofs that are less forgiving than a pad site. Crabapple, on the Roswell line, mixes the two. If your group has one of each, book them as two scopes. The drive from Norcross can cover both in a day. The checklist should not be copy-pasted.
We have not found a separate Alpharetta hood ordinance that replaces NFPA 96 or the state fire code. The city fire authority enforces Georgia's adopted code. Chapter 120-3-3 of the Safety Fire Commissioner rules is the adoption path. Section 606 of the state fire prevention code, in the 2024-based edition, is where the inspection rows live. They are written out on the Atlanta NFPA 96 page.
For an Alpharetta menu, read the high-volume row before you assume six months. Char, wok, and all-day cooking sit on the three-month row. A corporate cafeteria that only reheats may sit on the six-month row. Low-volume community kitchens can be annual. The fire marshal can tighten any of those. Ask them which edition is in force if a previous vendor argued the point.
Baffles washed, plenum degreased, mesh filters flagged if they are still in the hood.
Existing panels only. A missing panel is a finding, not something we cut open on a cleaning night.
Hinged and cleaned when the roof allows. Windward curbs are usually straightforward. Downtown may not be.
Company name, date, and what was skipped. Photos of the fan and the canopy.
Main street kitchens and the older grid. Plan roof access before the night.
Office-lunch volume and larger hoods on conventional roofs.
Shopping-center and pad sites between downtown and the freeway.
Roswell, Milton, Johns Creek, and Cumming. Cumming is Forsyth County, so the fire authority changes again at that line.
The fan and the canopy are clean where we could reach them, and the date is written down for the Alpharetta fire inspector. A lunch-and-dinner kitchen gets a frequency that matches that pace instead of a leftover six-month habit from a slower store in the same group.
Nothing in the visit renews a suppression tag, pumps a grease trap, or hauls fryer oil. Those are linked below because North Fulton operators often discover all three are late in the same week.
Inside the city, Alpharetta's fire department is the authority having jurisdiction. Roswell, Milton, and Johns Creek each have their own. A North Fulton mailing address is not enough to pick the office.
Many kitchens serve a weekday lunch crowd from the office parks and a separate dinner service. That is closer to a high-volume pattern than to a single-shift cafe. If the menu also charbroils or runs a wok, the Georgia table points at a 3-month inspection, not 6.
Monthly for solid fuel. Every 3 months for high-volume, 24-hour, charbroiler, or wok cooking. Every 6 months for other commercial cooking. Every 12 months for low-volume uses such as worship halls and seasonal kitchens. Cleaning is required when grease is found. Confirm the edition with the Alpharetta fire marshal.
The cleaning steps match. The roofs do not. Downtown and the older streets need tighter access planning. Windward and North Point pads usually have conventional curbs and longer canopies. The report should say which fan was opened.
Often the same Norcross-based crew on a North Fulton day. It is not the same fire department, so the paperwork should name the kitchen's actual city.
Phone (678) 751-8871. Shop address: 6500 McDonough Dr, Suite A-4, Norcross, GA 30093. There is no separate Alpharetta storefront.
Tell us if the line is a lunch cafeteria, a dinner restaurant, or both, and whether anyone is cooking on solid fuel or a charbroiler.
Call (678) 751-8871 or send the form. TruShine Services, LLC is at 6500 McDonough Dr, Suite A-4, Norcross, GA 30093.
Takes 30 seconds. We respond the same business day.