City Fitouts
Cafe and restaurant fitouts, Sydney
Hospitality is the hardest fitout to get right: the kitchen, the exhaust, the grease arrestor and the hydraulics all have to pass before a single coffee is sold. City Fitouts builds cafes, restaurants and quick-service outlets with those approvals designed in from the start.
What we build
- Commercial kitchens, cool rooms and dry stores
- Mechanical exhaust and make-up air
- Grease arrestors, hydraulics and gas
- Bars, counters and servery joinery
- Front-of-house finishes, seating and lighting
- Live-trading refurbishments in stages
Program
A cafe in an existing food tenancy runs six to nine weeks; a new restaurant with a full kitchen twelve to eighteen. Staged refurbishments keep the venue trading, as at KFC Garbutt.
Approvals
A food premises needs council registration and usually complying development through a private certifier for the change of use, exhaust and grease arrestor. Sydney Water trade-waste approval is separate. We run all of it.
The City Fitouts approach
Price
We walk the site with you and your drawings, measure what is there, and come back with a fixed price and a program. Not an estimate that grows - a number you can sign a lease against.
Build
Our own site manager runs the job every day. Licensed trades, a certifier engaged from the start, centre and landlord conditions handled, and weekly progress reports with photos.
Hand over
Occupation certificate, fire and electrical certification, as-built drawings and warranties in one folder, on the handover date we agreed at the start.
Questions people ask
Can you keep us trading during a refurb?
Yes. We stage the work - kitchen, then dining, then counters - so the venue stays open for most of the program. KFC Garbutt was refurbished that way.
Who designs the kitchen?
Your kitchen designer or equipment supplier. We build to their layout and coordinate the services to it.
Why does hospitality cost more per square metre?
The kitchen, exhaust and hydraulics roughly double the budget of an office of the same size. The cost checker shows the range for your floor area.
Price your cafe and restaurant fitout
Check the cost range in ten seconds, or send us the drawings for a fixed price.
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