I had a question recently about what would be the “best” system to treat wastewater from a restaurant. This led me to thinking about how things have changed concerning how we look at and have dealt with systems serving restaurants or bars.Back in what I like to term the “old days,” there were a lot of anecdotal reports from service providers that restaurants they serviced with conventional septic tank soil treatment systems had high rates of failure. As we turned our attention to these systems, one of the first things that became apparent was septic tank effluent from tanks














