In April 2024, at 26 years old, Gabriel Venzant moved to Key Largo to take ownership of All Keys Port-A-Lets, a portable restroom rental and service company. With a dedication to hard work, team-building and a knack for establishing business relationships, Venzant is rapidly expanding the footprint of his business to cover Monroe County from Key West through Miami-Dade County, 60 miles north.
Although he’s a lifelong Miami native, Venzant is no stranger to the Florida Keys.
“I’ve had friends and family here for as long as I remember,” he says. “I’ve fished and sailed and grown up here, so it was a little like coming home.”
Previously, Venzant owned a trucking and logistics company. He became interested in the portable restroom industry because many of his friends are construction contractors.
“They always complained about the portable restrooms on site, and I’ve used some myself,” he says. “I saw a lot of room for improvement. At the same time, my family told me about a portable restroom company owner who was interested in selling and retiring after 20 years in the business, and I decided to move on it.”
Venzant negotiated a deal with the assistance of a financial partner who is also a family member. The assets of the business included 126 older portable restrooms and two pump trucks. He spent five months accompanying drivers on routes, learning operations and understanding the supply chain.
Taking ownership, he changed the company name only slightly by adding an “s” to the end of the original company name.
“It’s really hard to do a startup locally because Key Largo is such a small town, so it was helpful to start with a familiar name, but I had always intended to expand into Miami-Dade County,” he says. “Our name is a recognition of where we are from and where we started, but our website, our business cards and our advertising all say that we service Monroe and Miami-Dade counties. In just one short year, it tells a growth story that we’re proud of.”
Venzant also rebranded with a distinctive green-and-orange design featuring a friendly pelican, which appears on portable restrooms and company pump trucks.
“More important to me than the name change and rebranding was a commitment to build a reliable team that takes pride in every service and reflects the company’s values,” he says.
In addition to portable restroom rental and service, All Keys now offers hand-wash station rentals, RV, marine pumpouts, septic tank pumping, holding tank rental and service, and grease trap service for restaurants and food trucks. However, about 60% of the company’s business is generated on the portable restroom side.
“That’s our bread and butter,” Venzant says. “Much of it serves the construction industry, with year-round site rentals, but we handle events as well. All other services make up the remaining 40%. We have no septic tanks in the Keys, but we pump septic tanks and residential lift stations in the Homestead and Miami areas.”
The company has also taken on event work in the Keys, including the Key Largo Bridge Run. The 2024 EPIC Joy Ride bicycle marathon has been the largest event so far, with 43 restrooms required along a route from Miami to Key West.
The restroom inventory now includes 400 units — 360 from PolyJohn and 40 from Satellite Industries, with 30 ADA-compliant models from both manufacturers. Among the PolyJohn models are 20 Fleet units and 10 PolyLifts. Deodorants are supplied by Walex Products.
The company also offers 25 PolyJohn Applause hand-wash stations.
All Keys operates three pump trucks. The first is a 2020 Ford F-550 with a 900-gallon waste/100-gallon fresh carbon steel tank and Masport pump, built out by Ledwell of Texarkana, Texas. The second is a 2016 Ram 5500 with an 1,100-gallon waste/400-gallon fresh aluminum tank and Masport pump, built out by Engine & Accessory of Miami. The newest addition to the fleet is a 2025 International CV515, with an 1,100-gallon waste/400-gallon fresh aluminum tank and National Vacuum Equipment pump, built out by Dellinger Fabrication in Conover, North Carolina.
A fourth pump truck is held in reserve, for whenever it’s needed — a 2017 Ford F-550 with an 800-gallon waste/400-gallon fresh aluminum tank and Masport pump, also built out by Engine & Accessory.
Each pump truck is outfitted to carry two portable restrooms.
A 2005 Isuzu NPR-HD carrying a 300-gallon waste/100-gallon fresh stainless steel tank performs triple duty. It’s equipped with a liftgate and delivers portable restrooms, provides event service and performs emergency pumpouts for boats or grease traps.
A Ford F-150 carries portable restroom units, holding tanks and hand-wash stations.
All Keys employs three drivers, while Venzant and his wife handle calls, scheduling and billing from the head office in Key Largo. A second site is located in Homestead, 30 miles north and offers parking for one of the company’s pump trucks and a selection of standard portable restrooms. A third is located in Tavernier, 10 miles southeast, used as a storage yard for portables, and parking for one pump truck and a stationary pump truck used as a 2,000-gallon emergency transfer tank. All locations are connected over about 40 miles by the Florida Overseas Highway, which runs from Key West to Miami.
“Working in Miami adds a lot of miles and drive time, but it’s a very big market for us,” Venzant says. “The additional business makes it worth the drive. We have a very efficient route along the Overseas Highway. We first handle all of the clients on the Florida Bay side of the highway, then turn around and handle all of the oceanside customers.”
Any liquid waste pumped in Miami-Dade County can be disposed of at Miami-Dade’s South District Wastewater Treatment Plant in Homestead. However, anything pumped in the Key’s Monroe County requires a trip to the Broward County North Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility in Pompano Beach, 100 miles to the north. All Keys finds it more efficient to allow another local liquid waste hauling company using trucks with a larger capacity to make the run to Pompano Beach.
Marketing has included social media and Google ads, but community donations have also contributed to the brand’s visibility. All Keys has donated portable restroom rentals and service to Wesley House Family Services in Key West, to Ocean Studies Charter School in Key Largo, and to a local boat ramp.
While Venzant initially hit the ground running with a small list of regular customers, the business has also grown on old-fashioned face-to-face sales calls.
“When we weren’t at our busiest, I would load up the truck and head out to Homestead or to Key West to meet contractors and make a name for myself,” he says. “Stopping by after lunch when work is less busy is a great opportunity to meet up.”
The Florida Keys are associated with violent weather — Humphrey Bogart’s 1948 film Key Largo, for example, features hurricane weather as part of the plot.
“From my experience, the weather here has been nothing like that,” Venzant says. “We get the famous South Florida rain, but for the most part, it’s more like paradise.”
That’s not to say that storms aren’t sometimes predicted by weather forecasters. But All Keys offers customers a free security guarantee — the crew will stake portable restrooms to the ground to protect property and keep the locations clean.
However, the difference between Florida Keys culture and the fast-paced life in Miami is noticeable.
“Life is more relaxed in the Keys, like a small town,” Venzant says. “You may not be able to find spare parts quickly, and when we need certain services, the pace may be more relaxed. But once you learn how to work here, it’s great. Everyone’s very helpful, and everybody knows each other.”
Focusing on customers
Venzant notes that in the desire to become bigger, companies can sometimes lose the focus on customers that made them grow in the first place.
“Our crew members are very experienced and happy to do their jobs,” he says. “When we’re serving customers, we let them know in every detail that we want to be there, we want to help them, and we’ll take our time to do the right thing.”
Venzant is booked to attend the 2026 WWETT Show in search of new ideas to grow the business. He’s currently looking to establish a major presence in Miami to spearhead growth in North Florida. His five-year goal is to build an inventory of 2,000 portable restrooms.
His advice to PROs just starting out?
“The portable sanitation business requires a lot of work and dedication, and you have to like what you’re doing,” Venzant says. “Even when things get slow, don’t give up. Get out there and find new customers and new ways to offer your services. Motivate your team and give them a purpose. Plan ahead for events, meet with your existing customers and make sure you get in front of their necessities. Show them that they can continuously count on your team.”
