How to Price Restaurant Fit-Out Design Packages in Singapore

To price restaurant fit-out design packages in Singapore, anchor your fee to the project scope, floor area, design complexity, and compliance burden. For the fit-out works themselves, Singapore commercial renovation benchmarks are typically S$180–350 per square foot for complex F&B projects, while simpler commercial fit-outs sit around S$30–100 per square foot.

A practical package-pricing approach is:

• Basic package: concept design, layout planning, mood board, basic drawings, and limited revisions.
• Standard package: concept design plus detailed fit-out drawings, material selection, coordination support, and more revisions.
• Premium package: full design management, authority submission support, site coordination, bespoke detailing, and contractor tendering.

For restaurants, pricing should reflect that the kitchen/front-of-house split is often materially different, and kitchen areas usually carry more technical and regulatory complexity. The overall cost also rises with exhaust/ducting, fire-safety systems, premium finishes, and other F&B-specific requirements.

A useful way to build your fee is:

• Fixed fee by package for small, well-defined projects
• Per square foot fee for larger or more standardised outlets
• Percentage of fit-out cost for full-service design-and-management work
• Hybrid model: a base design fee plus add-ons for authority submissions, site supervision, and revisions

If you want to stay market-aligned in Singapore, the fit-out budget itself often needs to be planned with a wide range in mind: one Singapore source pegs complex restaurant/F&B renovation works at S$180–350 psf, while another cites S$180–500+ psf depending on customisation and scope. For timelines, restaurants commonly take 6–12 weeks for renovation work itself, with approvals potentially adding another 2–4 weeks.

A simple pricing formula you can use is:

[ \text{Design Package Fee} = (\text{Base design fee}) + (\text{PSF fee} \times \text{area}) + \text{add-ons} ]

Typical add-ons to charge separately:

• Authority submission and coordination
• Site visits and supervision
• Additional concept revisions
• Specialty kitchen planning
• Lighting design
• Branding/signage integration
• Expedited turnaround

If you are setting your own package rates, a common commercial logic is to price so that your design fee is clearly separated from construction cost, since restaurant clients often compare you against the total fit-out budget rather than the design scope alone.

If you want, I can turn this into a Singapore restaurant design pricing sheet with sample package tiers in S$, including recommended deliverables and margins.