$1,800 a month on packaging that goes straight into the dumpster. Do you know what the dumpster itself costs you?
You track your paper costs to the dollar. Do you track what your hauler charges you every month?
TrixieWatch is waste bill monitoring for restaurants. Upload your hauler invoices as PDFs, and our team checks every line item against published hauler rate tables — fuel surcharges, environmental fees, admin costs — then emails you when something changes. Up to 5 invoices free, results in 24 hours, no account required.
No account required · Up to 5 invoices · Results in 24 hours
Environmental fees. Fuel surcharges. Admin costs. Which of those changed on your last bill?
In a restaurant, the trash bill gets paid the way it arrives. You're running service; the invoice is page two of a stack in accounts payable. The base haul rate is what you negotiated — but the surcharges buried in your invoice are fees that adjust without notice. The fuel surcharge on a restaurant trash bill can change between two invoices without a letter, a call, or a new contract. In the restaurant trade press, one consultant describes bills loaded with environmental and fuel surcharges that could raise the price 35 percent. These are the line items that move:
Fuel / Energy Surcharge
Usually a percentage tied to a published index — and the rate on your invoice doesn't always move the way the index does.
Environmental Recovery Fee
A hauler-defined fee, not a government charge. Calculated as a percentage of other charges — so it grows whenever anything else on the bill does.
Administrative Fee
A flat charge that appears, changes amount, or duplicates — rarely announced, easy to miss at the bottom of the page.
Fee stacking order
Percentage fees calculated on top of other fees. If the order changes, your total changes — even when every stated rate stays the same.
Unrecognized line items
Charges that weren't on last month's invoice: overage, contamination, container repair. New line items get flagged, whatever they're called.
What does billing drift look like?
Billing drift is the slow movement of line-item fees from one invoice to the next. No single step looks alarming — which is exactly why it goes unnoticed. Here's what it looks like on a real commercial account:
“$55.84. Then $70.92. Then $92.20. Then $111.56. Then $145.02. Quarterly. Same contracted service. No one called.”
TrixieWatch compares each new invoice against your baseline and flags the month a number moves — not five quarters later.
How it works
Upload your hauler invoices
Drop up to 5 invoice PDFs — from one location or several. Pull them from your hauler portal or accounts payable. Takes less than a minute.
Reviewed by our team
Within 24 hours, we check every line against published hauler rate tables and your own invoice history, per location.
Results by email
You get a clear summary of what we found, line by line. No jargon, no dashboard required.
Which fees on a restaurant dumpster invoice change without notice?
These are the line items TrixieWatch checks on every restaurant waste invoice — the same checks whether you send one kitchen's bill or twenty locations'.
Fuel surcharges
vs. published hauler tables
Environmental Recovery Fees
rate and calculation basis
Admin fees
vs. published amounts
Fee stacking order
how surcharges compound
Duplicate line items
same charge billed twice
Unrecognized fees
charges with no standard basis
Early access users include restaurant operators across the US.
We publish customer results only when they're real and verified. Until then: send us an invoice and judge the scan on its own.
Restaurant waste bill monitoring, answered
- What haulers does TrixieWatch support?
- We focus on WM, Republic Services, GFL, and RoadRunner. Invoices from other haulers are handled on a best-effort basis. The more structured the invoice, the more we can check.
- How long does a scan take?
- Results are delivered by email within 24 hours of upload. During our current review phase, every invoice is checked by our team before results go out.
- Do I need to share my hauler login?
- No. We only need the invoice PDFs. Download them from your hauler portal or pull them from accounts payable, then upload. No logins to share, no contract to send, no vendor calls.
- What if my bill looks normal?
- Then that is what the report says. A clean scan is a real result: it means the fees on your invoices match the published rate tables we checked, and you have a baseline for the next time a number moves. We do not invent findings to justify the scan.
- Is the free scan really free?
- Yes. Up to 5 invoice PDFs, reviewed line by line, with results by email in 24 hours. No account, no credit card, no automatic subscription. Ongoing monthly monitoring is a separate paid plan: Solo ($49) covers one location, Starter ($129) up to 5, Growth ($299) up to 15.
$400 a month for waste removal. Or is it $420 now? $450? When did you last check?
No account. No commitment. Upload up to 5 PDFs and we'll email you what we found within 24 hours.
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