In 2006, JP was a college student paying his own way. He found work cleaning commercial kitchen exhaust hoods: overnight shifts, rooftop fans and ductwork coated in years of grease. It was hot, dirty, physically punishing work. Most people take that job for a paycheck and move on.

JP stayed. Somewhere between the late nights and the early classes, he saw what the job really was. Every hood he cleaned meant a safer shift for the cooks working under it, and one less business at risk of losing everything to a duct fire. So he learned the trade the way you learn a craft: the fire code, how every system is built, and why a hood that looks clean can still be dangerous inside.

By 2011, the job that got him through school had become his passion. JP founded Five Star Hood and Detail Inc to do the work the way he believed it should be done: down to bare metal, documented, and right the first time.

Fifteen years later, Five Star cleans restaurants, hotels, hospitals, schools, ships and homes across South Florida. The company has grown, but the standard hasn’t changed. JP still answers for every job, and every crew is held to the same standard he set on those first late-night shifts.