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You will generally find that the total cost per square foot of your restaurant will run about $150-$200, excluding land costs. This means that if you plan on opening a restaurant with a square footage of 3,000, your total costs will be approximately $450,000-$600,000. Keep in mind that this is a general range only.
Full-service restaurants use servers to both take and deliver orders and often have a bar, which pushes up build-out costs significantly. Type of Restaurant Fast Food (all self service) Fast Casual (some table service) Full service Avg. Build-out Cost per Square Foot $63 $158 $192 Avg. very rough calculation for storage in a restaurant is 1 square foot of dry food and paper goods storage per meal served per day plus about 1.5 cubic feet of usable refrigerated storage space per meal served per day.