Restaurant and Hotel Metalwork
Bar fronts, shelving, railings, screens and furniture for restaurants and hotels, built to survive commercial use.
Bars and Back-of-House
A bar front takes more abuse in a year than a residential piece takes in a decade — spilled drinks, cleaning chemicals, shoes, stools, and constant contact with hands and forearms. It has to be built for that or it looks tired by the second season.
- Bar fronts and die walls — steel, brass or stainless faces over a substrate, with edges detailed to survive being kicked.
- Foot rails and brackets — solid brass or stainless, because plating wears through exactly where feet land.
- Back-bar shelving and speed rail supports — sized to your glassware and bottle heights, not to a catalogue.
- Kitchen and prep tables, shelving and wall cladding — 304 stainless, or 316 where a dish pit or a coastal site makes it worth it.
- Pot racks, canopies and equipment stands — built around the equipment you actually bought.
Back-of-house metalwork also has to be cleanable. We detail out the internal corners and open seams that collect grease and fail a health inspection.
Railings and Screens
Front-of-house metal does two jobs at once: it holds people up and it is part of the room.
Stair and mezzanine guards, patio and terrace railings, and the screens that turn one large room into two smaller ones are the pieces we are asked for most. In an assembly occupancy, guards and handrails are governed by the BC Building Code and will be inspected — height, infill spacing, loading and handrail graspability are specified rather than chosen, and we build to them as standard.
For patios, the additional constraints are wind, the sidewalk it sits beside, and whatever your municipality permits for a seasonal or permanent structure. We will flag those at the site visit.
Screens are where the design usually lives. Laser-cut patterns, vertical bar, mesh, glass infill — all straightforward to build, and all worth mocking up at full height before committing.
Furniture and Fixtures
Restaurant furniture fails in predictable ways: welds crack at the leg-to-frame joint, feet wear through and mark the floor, and finishes wear off the front edge of every table.
We build table bases, banquette frames, stools, plinths and host stands to be repairable — bolted where a part will need replacing, welded where it will not, with adjustable and replaceable feet as standard. Commercial furniture is not residential furniture in a busier room; it is a different specification.
Finishes for hospitality want to be honest about wear. Unlacquered brass and blackened steel age into something better. Bright plating and gloss coatings age into something worse.
Working Around Opening Dates
Opening dates do not move, and everyone on a fit-out knows it.
We schedule backwards from your date and we will tell you at quoting whether it is achievable. If it is tight, you will hear that before you have committed rather than three weeks out.
The two elements most likely to strain a timeline are glass, which is ordered to the finished frame rather than alongside it, and multi-stage finishes such as galvanising followed by powder coat. If your date is tight, those are the first decisions we will want to lock.
We are used to working around other trades in an unfinished space, and around trading hours where you are refitting part of an operating venue.
Free in-house consultation
We come to you, measure the site, and talk through options and budget before you commit to anything. No charge, no obligation.
Call (778) 805-5333 or email sales@trussmetal.com