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Restaurant construction & renovation

Complete restaurant renovations and commercial kitchen build-outs, with the kitchen, dining areas, building services and construction managed as one coordinated scope.

Tell us what you need and your city. Plans aren’t required to start.

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Sam Divanbeigi, founder and principal of APEX
Meet Sam Divanbeigi

25 years of construction experience.

APEX’s founder and principal reviews estimates before they reach you.

Meet the person behind APEX
Real APEX work

See kitchen installations, restaurant interiors and bar fit-outs from our project collection.

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The goal

Keep front-of-house decisions aligned with the kitchen, utilities, landlord requirements and opening plan.

When to call us
  • You are converting a shell or another commercial use into a restaurant.
  • A second-generation restaurant needs a new concept, kitchen or customer flow.
  • An operating restaurant needs a phased renovation or capacity upgrade.
What is included
  1. 01Existing-condition and restaurant-use review
  2. 02Kitchen, service and customer-flow coordination
  3. 03Construction and building-system scope planning
  4. 04Landlord, equipment and specialist-trade coordination
  5. 05Deficiency, testing and handover planning
Full restaurant projects

Plan the whole restaurant together.

A full renovation can involve the cooking line, refrigeration, dining areas, washrooms, finishes and building services. APEX brings those requirements into one construction scope, with design professionals, equipment suppliers and specialist trades involved where needed.

For a new location or a substantial renovation, start with the site, your concept and target opening. We can work through available plans, equipment decisions, landlord requirements and the construction sequence with you.

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Before we price the work

Make the responsibilities clear.

  • Confirm whether the brief covers the full restaurant, a kitchen renovation or an installation package.
  • Identify who supplies equipment and who handles delivery, installation and connections.
  • Agree drawing, engineering, permit and specialist-trade responsibilities.
  • Set the scope, allowances, exclusions, shutdown needs and handover requirements.
Discuss your restaurant renovation
Selected APEX work

Restaurant construction, from kitchen to dining room.

APEX restaurant interior with patterned flooring, timber wall finishes, pendant lights and exposed ceiling services
Restaurant dining-area work from the APEX project collection.
Restaurant construction

A restaurant beyond the kitchen.

A restaurant renovation reaches beyond the cooking line. This APEX dining space brings the guest area, interior finishes, lighting and exposed building services into the same room.

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Red-fronted glazed service counter with cooking equipment and overhead menu screens behind it in the Bolton shawarma restaurant
APEX shawarma restaurant project, Bolton, during installation.
Bolton shawarma restaurant

A service counter connected to the cooking area.

The service counter connects the kitchen with the customer area in this APEX shawarma restaurant project. For an owner, those spaces need to work together: equipment behind the counter, room to serve, and a clear customer-facing layout.

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Planning restaurant construction in Toronto.

Before renovating a Toronto restaurant or fitting out a new location, review the proposed use, kitchen layout, exhaust route and building services together. Permit and public-health requirements depend on the property and scope.

Read the commercial kitchen permit planning guide
Before we start

What we need to check.

  • Lease, permitted use and landlord design criteria
  • Kitchen exhaust, utilities, drainage and equipment requirements
  • Customer, staff, receiving, waste and accessibility routes
  • Operating hours, shutdowns, neighbours and delivery access
How the scope moves

A practical sequence for the work.

The exact responsibilities are confirmed in the proposal. This is the planning path we use to expose missing information before it reaches the site.

01

Define the operation

Document the menu, service model, seating or queue, staffing, deliveries, storage, cleaning and target opening before the layout is fixed.

02

Coordinate front and back of house

Align the kitchen, pass, counter, dining or pickup areas with equipment, exhaust, utilities, lighting, finishes, access and landlord interfaces.

03

Sequence construction and turnover

Assign drawings, trades, owner decisions, equipment deliveries, inspections, deficiencies and final documents in the project schedule.

Before we price the work

Questions owners ask first.

When should a restaurant contractor review a candidate unit?

Before lease conditions are waived, when possible. The proposed use, exhaust route, utilities, drainage, access and landlord criteria can materially change the fit-out scope.

Can the dining room and commercial kitchen be planned separately?

They can have different designers and trades, but their service flow, utilities, counter interface, deliveries, waste, lighting and construction sequence still need one coordinated plan.

Can an operating restaurant be renovated in phases?

Sometimes. The decision depends on safe separation, shutdown windows, utility work, equipment moves, access, inspections and whether temporary operations are practical.