Neil Groglio of Westport and Matt Neeley of Shelton are not afraid to take care of the dirty work.
Since launching a Filta Environmental Kitchen Solutions franchise in September, the business partners have been cleaning out deep fryers and purifying the oil at area restaurants through the use of a specially designed filtration machine.
“We thought it was a very interesting business, a little different from what you find out there,” said Groglio, a middle school teacher and former rental car company owner. “I call it a dialysis machine for cooking oil.”
The franchise has three technicians each with vans and oil-cleaning devices, which are about the size of a shopping cart, making stops at some 80 clients in Fairfield, New Haven and Hartford counties, Groglio said.
