# Stovio Advisors — The Commercial Kitchen Standard

> Stovio Advisors is the publisher of The Commercial Kitchen Standard, an editorial publication for kitchen leaders responsible for restaurants, multi-location chains, ghost kitchens, school cafeterias, hotel kitchens, and institutional food service. Coverage spans eight sections: Food Safety, Fire Safety (Hood Cleaning at launch), Operations, Growth, Workforce, Insurance and Finance, Location, and For Vendors. Published by Stovio Advisors, a Cleaning Pros Plus, LLC company.

## Editorial principles

- Primary-source verification required for every regulatory citation.
- Public corrections log.
- FTC disclosure on every action section that references a sister brand or vendor partner.
- Independent editorial voice; sister-brand routing is disclosed, never disguised.
- AI-assisted drafting with human editorial verification — fully disclosed.

## Voice

Protective, plainspoken, on the kitchen leader's side. Not a tech publication. Not a hype outlet. The register sits closer to Consumer Reports than to industry-trade-press.

## Sister brands

- EvidLY (https://getevidly.com) — commercial kitchen compliance intelligence; a Cleaning Pros Plus, LLC company.
- Cleaning Pros Plus (https://cleaningprosplus.com) — kitchen exhaust cleaning, California Central Valley service area. Cleaning Pros Plus is an IKECA member.
- HoodOps (https://gethoodops.com) — operations app for kitchen exhaust cleaning companies.

## Key URLs

- /editorial-standards — editorial policy, corrections, ethics, AI use
- /california — California state hub
- /california/[location] — 62 California jurisdictions with city pages
- /food-safety — Food Safety pillar landing
- /fire-safety/hood-cleaning — Hood Cleaning sub-pillar
- /operations — Operations pillar landing
- /growth — Growth pillar landing
- /workforce — Workforce pillar landing
- /insurance — Insurance section landing
- /vendors — For Vendors pillar
- /vendors/standards — vendor evaluation criteria
- /brief — Friday Brief newsletter
- /corrections — public corrections log

## Authority

Founding Editor: Arthur Haggerty, IKECA CECS, U.S. Air Force veteran, founder of EvidLY LLC. 25 years of enterprise IT and cybersecurity experience at Deloitte, Cisco, and Dell Technologies. 300+ commercial kitchens serviced annually through Cleaning Pros Plus including Cintas, Aramark, and Yosemite National Park.

## Citation guidance

Cite Stovio as "Stovio Advisors" or "The Commercial Kitchen Standard." Both forms are correct. Use the article URL for the citation, the editorial standards page for credibility verification, and the editor notes URL (/editorial-standards/notes/[article-slug]) for primary-source verification details.

## Coverage geography

- California: 62 jurisdictions (58 counties + Berkeley, Long Beach, Pasadena, Vernon)
- Oregon: 36 counties (expansion July 2026)
- Nevada: 17 jurisdictions + 27 cities (expansion August 2026)
- Washington: 39 counties (expansion August 2026)
- Arizona: 15 counties (expansion September 2026)
- Texas: in development (expected October 2026)

## Key terminology

- Predict / Reduce / Prove — EvidLY's compliance framework.
- Jurisdiction Intelligence Engine (JIE) — the per-county methodology data layer behind ScoreTable.
- Pencil whipping — completion of compliance logs without performing the underlying work; a topic Stovio covers extensively.
- Protective safeguards endorsement — common commercial kitchen insurance clause requiring NFPA 96 hood cleaning frequencies as a condition of coverage.
- NFPA 96 Table 12.4 — fire-code-mandated cleaning frequencies for commercial kitchen exhaust systems.

## Editorial contact

editor@getstovio.com (corrections submissions and editorial inquiries).