Chubby's
Three working days.
The restaurant never closed.
Repaint by
Brightest In The Room · King West, Toronto
Chubby's Jamaican Kitchen is a busy restaurant on King West. The exterior needed a full repaint: the front door, the benches, the patio floor, and the surfaces around a hand-painted palm mural. The owners could not afford to close, so we built the job around their service hours and finished in three working days. Here is how we ran it.
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The job.
Most commercial repaints in Toronto come with a closure clause: a week off the books, the front papered over, the staff sent home. Chubby's could not do that. The restaurant on King West runs full service most nights, and the patio is a big part of its seating. The scope was to repaint the pink front door and the benches, recoat the patio floor, and repair and repaint the surfaces around the hand-painted palm mural without touching the artwork. The one condition of the job: the restaurant stays open the whole time.
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How we protected the mural.
The mural set the method. Hand-painted artwork does not take tape: pull tape off it and you risk lifting flecks of the original paint, and there is no clean repair for that. So we cut every edge by hand with a two-inch angled sash brush, working against the dry fronds instead of masking or spraying. It is slower than the spray rig we carry in the truck, but it is the only method that leaves the artwork exactly as we found it. For colour, we sampled the existing coral on site and had it matched in Benjamin Moore Aura exterior for the door and the benches. The patio floor was a separate product decision: SICO floor latex, chosen because it holds up to the foot traffic King West puts through it.
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The schedule.
The kitchen does not close, so we worked around it. Mornings before open we handled prep and primer; nights after close we came back for the finish coats. The patio stayed open wherever we were not actively working, and we struck the site clean every evening: ladders down, drop sheets packed out, no dust on the tables when the dinner line formed. This is how we run our commercial painting schedule for hospitality clients across the GTA: the storefront works during business hours, and the site is clean at the end of every shift.
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The timeline and the quote.
Three working days, weather permitting. Two painters. The number written on the quote on Monday morning was the number on the invoice on Wednesday afternoon: no change orders, no extras added mid-job. We walk the site properly before we price it, so the quote already covers the prep. That is what brings hospitality clients back: a firm number, a firm schedule, and the same painters from the first walk-through to the handover.
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The finished storefront.
By Thursday morning the door was dry to the touch, the mural was untouched, and the patio was open. The restaurant did not lose a day of service during the job. The finished work: colour-matched coral on the door and benches in Benjamin Moore Aura exterior, a recoated patio floor in SICO floor latex, and clean hand-cut lines against the mural. If you walked past that week, the only sign we had been there was the fresh paint. That is the standard we hold every commercial job to.
Three working days. Two painters.
Every edge cut by hand. The restaurant never closed.
Commercial Painting · FAQ
Common questions about commercial restaurant painting.
- Do you paint restaurants during open hours?
- We staff around service. For most hospitality clients we work mornings before opening, after close, or on closed days — patio kept clear of dust and debris, site broken down clean every evening. The full schedule is built around your service window before we quote.
- How long does it take to repaint a restaurant exterior in Toronto?
- A typical independent restaurant — façade, signature door, garden bench, interior touch-up — runs three to five working days with a two-person crew, weather permitting. Larger hotels and multi-unit retail run five to ten.
- Can you match paint to my existing brand colours or PMS specs?
- Yes. We custom-match from physical samples or Pantone, RAL, or RGB specs through Benjamin Moore, SICO, and Sherwin-Williams. Mockup boards are available before commit on commercial jobs over $5,000.
- Are you insured for commercial restaurant work?
- Yes — $4M commercial liability, WSIB-covered crew, 2-year workmanship warranty on every commercial project. Certificate of insurance sent on contract signing.
- What does it cost to repaint a restaurant exterior in Toronto?
- Typical independent restaurant exterior repaints run $3,000 to $8,000 depending on surface count, height, and prep. Hospitality projects with brand-matched colour and hand-cut detail run $8,000 to $20,000. Fixed quotes, no change orders.
- How do you protect murals, signage, or heritage detail during a repaint?
- Hand-cut work, no tape on artwork. We mask hardline edges with film and brush in by hand against painted or carved surfaces. For neon, signage, and heritage tile we coordinate temporary removal with your signage vendor.
Project specs
- Client
- Chubby's
- Location
- King West, Toronto
- Sector
- Hospitality
- Surfaces
- Stucco · Wood · Mural margins
- Paint
- BM Aura exterior (door + benches) · SICO floor latex (patio)
- Tools
- 2″ angled sash · hand-cut against mural
- Duration
- 3 working days
- Cost range
- $8K–$20K · fixed quote
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