Restaurant & Commercial Casework

Casework that survives a working kitchen

A restaurant destroys cabinetry in ways a house never will. Line cooks slam drawers a hundred times a service. Server stations get hosed down. Bar cabinets sit in standing condensation for sixteen hours a day. Particleboard casework swells at the bottom edge within a season, and once the core wicks water there is no repair, only replacement, usually during a shutdown you did not budget for. We went through the specifics in what it takes for casework to survive a working kitchen.

Every box we build for a commercial space is 3/4" solid birch plywood, the same spec we use in a custom home, because the failure mode we are designing against is moisture at the toe kick and racking under load. Drawers are dovetailed rather than stapled, so a drawer box that takes a kick at the corner stays square. Slides are full-extension soft-close rated for the cycle counts a service line actually puts on them.

Built to your opening date, not ours

On a build-out, cabinetry is almost always on the critical path. It lands after MEP rough-in and before final inspection, and if it slips, your opening slips with it. The reason we keep the shop, the finishing, and the install crew in-house is scheduling control. There is no third-party cabinet vendor whose queue we are waiting on, and no install sub we have to book three weeks out.

We work directly with your GC, your designer, or your operations lead. You get a full 3D layout with pricing and lead times before we cut a board, and every dimension and finish is approved in writing. If your finish schedule changes at week four, and on a restaurant build-out it usually does, we are the ones making the change, so you get a real answer on cost and schedule the same day.

What we build for hospitality

Back-bar units with bottle steps and speed-rail returns. Under-bar cabinetry sized around your glass washer and ice wells. Server and wait stations with POS cutouts and cord management. Host stands and podiums. Banquette bases and booth millwork. Back-of-house dry storage, prep tables and pass-through casework. Reception and lobby millwork for hotels. Feature walls and slatted paneling for dining rooms.

Finishes are specified to the room: commercial-grade laminates such as Wilsonart where the surface takes abuse and needs to be replaceable, painted and stained birch where the casework is part of the guest-facing design. Twenty-plus finishes are available, and we will match an existing finish schedule across a multi-location rollout.