Every night, an employee at Eda Johnson’s new restaurant in the Stadium District dons a mask and heads downstairs to a storage room with a clipboard and a pen. The mission is to scrape the gunk out of ...

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 ...

A Wolseley restaurateur who refused to install a grease trap has lost a fight against an exemption that allows him to operate without one. For two years, Bill Fugler of Westminster Avenue's ...

Tacoma's strict enforcement of grease-trap requirements for restaurants is creating problems for small business owners, who find the city's rules overly controlling, ambiguous and costly. Suppose the ...

The Lompoc City Council twice has reversed decisions by staff to allow two small businesses to avoid installing grease traps. On Tuesday, the council supported an appeal by the Vitamin and Herb Store, ...