Restaurant Build-Out Cost in DFW

Light 2nd-gen restaurant refresh: $225/SF ($75,000 min). 2nd-gen restaurant remodel: $325/SF ($125,000 min). Standard restaurant buildout: $475/SF ($200,000 min). Heavy restaurant buildout: $650/SF ($300,000 min). High-end restaurant buildout: $800/SF ($450,000 min). All-in pricing, labor, materials, permits, inspections, project management, one-year workmanship warranty.

Light second-generation refresh $225/SF ($75,000 min), second-generation remodel $325/SF ($125,000 min), standard build-out $475/SF ($200,000 min), heavy build-out $650/SF ($300,000 min), and high-end $800/SF ($450,000 min). The largest single swing is kitchen infrastructure: whether the hood and makeup-air, grease interceptor, gas service, and floor drains are already in the space. That is what separates a $225/SF refresh from a $475/SF standard build-out.

Because the expensive infrastructure is already in the building. A space a restaurant already operated in usually has the hood and makeup-air, the grease interceptor, gas service, and floor drains. Those are the line items that separate a $225/SF refresh from a $475/SF standard buildout. Before you sign a lease, have the space walked to confirm what is actually there rather than what the listing implies.

Kitchen equipment and FF&E, health-department and city inspection cycles, fire and life-safety modifications, hood and makeup-air systems, grease interceptors, and landlord-imposed fees are typically separate line items. They are called out explicitly in the scope rather than folded into the rate, so you can see and negotiate them.

That is the deadline we build the schedule around, the same way we treat a lease commencement. We give you a written scope with a real completion date before you pay a deposit. Where a date requires overtime or larger crews to hit, that shows up in the scope as a cost, not as a promise we quietly miss.

Yes, written scope, locked at signing. Change orders only happen if you request a scope change, and they are priced and approved in writing before work proceeds. Hidden conditions (failed MEP behind walls, mold, code corrections unrelated to your scope) are excluded by default and surfaced as change orders if discovered.

All i30 Builders full-project prices include normal mobilization, ordinary protection of adjacent areas, labor, standard materials listed in the scope, project coordination, normal cleanup, and a one-year workmanship warranty on the listed scope.