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Cocky Rooster quick-service restaurant counter and dining room, designed and permitted by SOKO Designs in Phoenix
Cocky Rooster · Restaurant TI · City of Phoenix
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Tell us where the space is and what's going in. We'll show you exactly who reviews a restaurant in that city, email you the checklist of what to have ready, and call with a flat price.

  • Health and fire run in parallel, not in series. Maricopa County Environmental Services and the fire department review at the same time as the city, which is how a restaurant opens weeks sooner.
  • Hood, grease, and gas drawn right the first time. Those three generate most restaurant corrections. We size and detail them before anything goes in.
  • Second-generation spaces priced honestly. We check what's reusable, so you don't pay to redraw a kitchen that already passed once.
  • We submit, track, and answer every comment. You get status updates without chasing a plan reviewer.
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Your permit path

Your restaurant

    We run all of this for you. This is just so you know what's coming.
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    The rent clock

    Every week in plan review has a price tag.

    Most restaurant TI delays aren't construction. They're a correction letter about the hood, the grease interceptor, or the restroom count, and the three weeks it takes to answer it. Slide to your rent and see what each one of those weeks costs you.

    First-submittal approval is the whole game. That's what a complete set buys.

    $263per day of delay
    $1,846per week of delay
    $8,000per missed month
    Rent only. Doesn't count payroll you've already hired, loan interest, or the opening you had to push.
    How a restaurant gets permitted

    Six reviews. We run them side by side.

    A restaurant isn't one permit. It's a building permit plus a health review plus a fire review plus a grease approval, and usually a liquor floor plan and a sign. Done in sequence, that's months. Done in parallel from one coordinated set, it's weeks.

    1

    Space check

    Zoning, occupant load, parking, and what's reusable from the last tenant.

    2

    Drawings

    Kitchen, hood, plumbing, MEP, accessibility, finishes. One coordinated set.

    3

    City permit

    Submitted through your city's portal. We answer every correction.

    4

    Health review

    Maricopa County Environmental Services, filed at the same time as the city.

    5

    Fire & grease

    Hood suppression, exits, and interceptor sizing approved before rough-in.

    6

    Open

    Inspections, Certificate of Occupancy, and the liquor floor plan already done.

    What the city will ask for

    The six things that generate restaurant corrections.

    Every one of these is drawn, sized, and detailed in the set before it goes in. That's the difference between a first-submittal approval and a three-round fight.

    Hood & exhaust

    Type I hood length, exhaust and makeup air, duct routing to the roof, and the suppression system the fire department signs off on.

    Mechanical + fire

    Grease interceptor

    Sized to your fixtures and approved through the city's pretreatment program. Phoenix in particular wants this right before plumbing rough-in.

    Plumbing

    Occupant load & exits

    Seat count drives exit widths, exit count, restroom fixtures, and sometimes sprinklers. We set it first so nothing downstream moves.

    Life safety

    Accessibility

    Accessible route, restrooms, counter heights, and seating. A change of occupancy usually triggers an upgrade, and the reviewer will look for it.

    ADA / 2010 Standards

    Health department layout

    Hand sinks, three-compartment and mop sinks, finishes, and equipment spacing per Maricopa County's food code. Reviewed from the same set.

    MCESD

    Liquor floor plan & sign

    The Arizona DLLC license wants a floor plan with the premises outlined. The sign permit is separate. Both come straight off the set.

    DLLC + signage
    Recent restaurant work

    Spaces we got permitted and open.

    Cocky Rooster restaurant counter design rendering, alternate colour scheme
    Cocky Rooster · 275 W Fillmore, Phoenix

    Cocky Rooster, Phoenix

    A quick-service restaurant taken through design and City of Phoenix commercial review, with the Maricopa County health submittal running alongside the building permit.

    • Second-generation space. We verified the existing hood and interceptor before drawing a line, and reused what passed.
    • Health and city in parallel. Both submittals filed the same week from one set.
    • Corrections answered in days, not review cycles.

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    Questions

    What restaurant owners ask us.

    Sometimes. "Restaurant ready" usually means there's a hood and a grease interceptor somewhere. It doesn't mean they're sized for your menu, that the interceptor is still approved, or that the restrooms meet today's count for your seats. We check all three in the first visit and tell you what's reusable before you spend on drawings.
    Drafting is typically two to four weeks for a restaurant, longer with a bar and patio. City review runs a few weeks to a couple of months depending on the jurisdiction and how busy they are, and the health review runs at the same time. The biggest time saver is a complete first submittal, because every correction round adds two to four weeks.
    In Arizona, many tenant improvements under a certain size and scope can be prepared without one, and most restaurant TIs we do are in that range. When the scope requires an architect or engineer, for structural changes, a mezzanine, or certain occupancies, we coordinate the licensed professional as part of the job.
    Usually, and the city calls it a change of occupancy. It triggers a new occupant load, a restroom count check, accessibility upgrades, and often a look at parking. We design to all of that from the start so it doesn't come back as a correction letter.
    It depends on the size and whether there's a bar, a patio, or structural work, so we quote it after a site visit. It's a flat number you approve before we start, not an hourly estimate. City and county permit fees are separate and go to them, not to us. Tell us the space and we'll give you the number within one business day.
    Not on this side of the business. SOKO Designs does the plans and the permitting, so we're never competing with your contractor. If you don't have one yet, tick the box on the form and we'll introduce you to contractors from our network who build restaurants in the Valley.
    Yes, and we do it often. Send the set and the correction letter. We'll tell you what's salvageable, what needs redrawing, and how fast we can get a response back in.
    Stop paying rent on a closed kitchen

    Tell us about the space.

    Two steps, about a minute. Or skip the form and call. We answer, and we'll tell you straight what the permit path looks like.

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