What do you guys think of this:

Adwa, good advice you gave TomR

PadMan has me convinced as long as you are willing to use sufficient pads on each job. My opinion is that if you cleaned a heavily soiled restaurant you would go through too many pads and take too long to do. Why not steam extract? That I know works. (Time is money)

Now after extraction go over it once quickly with the pad. Now you should have a happy customer and what appears to be a sparkling clean carpet. The only concern I see with many of my customers is that if they shot all their pads on a restaurant the night before, they could be up the rest of the night washing pads at the laundromat at 5-6 dollars a load. Or cleaning the next day with soiled pads. Thats called redeposition. But then it has been said that evenness is cleanliness to the eyes of many customers.

Mr. Steamer:  when reality hits extra time and material does not always mean more money in the real world.  But than again I don't chase down dirty resturants, sometimes they find us but we charge the same for them as residential.  We don't like to loose our sleep for $.25 a sq. ft.  But than again I am in a different market.