Retail and Restaurant Repairs in Chicago
Doors, shelves, restrooms and drains for Chicago shops and restaurants, fixed after closing, done right the first time.
We’re HandyBandi, your neighbors and a restaurant and retail repairs Chicago crew. A shop or dining room that stays closed loses revenue by the hour, so we work around your doors, not through them. A single visit covers the door closer, the loose shelving, the running toilet and the slow drain from your punch list. We come after closing or before opening, your call. Building-wide jobs sit under our commercial handyman services. HandyBandi dispatches vetted technicians across Chicago who actually show up & fix things, + explain what they did.
Why Choose Us
Chicago has 8,985 active Retail Food Establishment licenses, and the repair market around them is split into narrow trades. One company does doors, another does glass, a third does locks and a fourth pumps grease traps. Most owners juggle four phone numbers for a single bad week. We take the small repairs as one list, in one visit, on one itemized invoice. You get a clear scope, a crew that respects the space, and a team that answers the phone.
Why Choose Us:
Restaurant Repair Services: What We Fix in Stores and Restaurants
What's Included with a Service?
Sales floor and storefront
Sagging shelving, display fixtures pulling loose, crooked menu screens. We reset wall anchors, handle shelf and fixture mounting, signage mounting and TV and menu board mounting, plus interior painting between seasons. That covers most storefront repair in the front of house, dining room and bar area.
Restrooms
A dripping faucet, a running toilet, loose partition hardware. We book faucet repair, toilet repair in restrooms and recaulking, and mount each grab bar with the ADA requirements for places of public accommodation in mind.
Corridors and storage
In the back of house, a service corridor door drags and a kick plate bends. A water damage patch is part of our wall and ceiling patching.
Drain lines
A backed-up floor drain, a gurgling drain line. Every commercial drain cleaning Chicago call indoors goes to our drain cleaning team, and we diagnose the source instead of just tightening the obvious thing and hoping for the best.
What We Don't Take
We don’t service kitchen equipment, pump grease traps, replace glass or repair automatic doors. We don’t take general contracting, permit work or structural jobs. Most alteration work needs a City of Chicago General Contractor license, so it stays with licensed pros.
What Retail and Restaurant Repairs Cost
Most vendors for restaurant and retail repairs Chicago keep their rates behind a sales call. We publish ours. The table below shows From-prices for the jobs we do most, plus rows where the scope has to be seen first. Anything marked By request gets an itemized quote after the walkthrough, and that quote becomes your not-to-exceed limit. Nothing gets added quietly. For retail store maintenance and restaurant maintenance services on a schedule, we bundle visits and send one flat-rate quote per visit. Door work and restroom fixtures get priced after we see the hinge, the frame or the toilet parts in person. After-hours slots are priced into the same quote, before anyone picks up a drill. A full list on one visit usually costs less than four service calls, because you pay for one trip, not four. Emergency calls follow the same fee rule as the rest of the site.
| Work | Cost |
|---|---|
| Handyman repairs | From $180 |
| Shelf and fixture mounting | From $100 |
| TV mounting | From $155 |
| Caulking and minor patching | From $149 |
| Door closer, threshold and hardware repair | From $249 |
| Restroom fixture repair and commercial drain line cleaning | From $280 |
| Board up after break-in | From $350 |
| After-hours and overnight work | +$150 fee |
| Minimum commercial visit | $180 |
| Emergency service | +$250 fee |
Work After Closing and Before Opening
Here is how after hours repairs for restaurants and shops run, step by step.
1. The request. Send your list by day through the form or by phone, and we confirm a slot.
2. The visit. We arrive after closing or before opening, whichever costs you fewer sales.
3. Keys and codes. A key handoff or lockbox, plus a temporary alarm code. We lock up the way we found it.
4. The work. Staff can stay, or the crew works alone. Overnight work covers displays and holiday decorating for storefronts.
5. The cleanup. We sweep, wipe down and haul our debris out, so the floor is ready for the first customer.
6. The photo report. Photos of every fix land in your inbox when we wrap up, before the morning shift.
Night and early hours carry a surcharge on restaurant and retail repairs Chicago jobs. The table lists it as By request, and your quote shows it before we book.
Doors, Closers and Hardware That Take the Traffic
A front door at a busy cafe swings hundreds of times a day, and Chicago buildings don’t help. The median building here went up in 1953, so frames settle and hardware wears out early. Winter brings ice. Then sidewalk cafe season opens on March 1, the Chicago sidewalk cafe permits start a new 12-month term for 3,471 patios, and side doors stay propped open. Every commercial door repair Chicago job goes to our door repair and hardware crew. Here is what fails most.
- A door closer that slams or won’t latch, our most common commercial door closer repair call
- A cracked or loose threshold
- Torn weatherstripping and a worn door sweep
- A sagging hinge on a hollow metal door
- A sticky lockset or a strike plate that misses on a frame out of square
What we pass on is just as clear. Automatic doors, revolving doors and anything with glass go to specialists. We say so on the first call, so nobody loses a night waiting for the wrong crew.
Storefront Work You Can Claim Through SBIF
The City of Chicago Small Business Improvement Fund reimburses 30% to 90% of the cost of permanent building improvements. The cap is $150,000 for commercial property and $250,000 for industrial, and the grant doesn’t have to be paid back. SBIF runs on money from each TIF district, and SomerCor administers it for the city. Tenants and owners inside a TIF district can both apply. For SBIF reimbursement on storefront work, the program wants proof. From us you get two simple things.
- An itemized invoice with every line of the job
- Dated photos of the work before and after
One honest note. We don’t prepare the application and we don’t consult on it. That part stays between you, SomerCor and the city, and we hand over clean paperwork when you ask.
FAQ:
These are the questions store managers and restaurant owners ask before they book us the first time. Most of them come down to three things: when we can come, what we take on, and what the paperwork looks like. If your situation doesn't match any answer here, send a note through <a href="https://handybandi.com/contact/">request a quote</a>, pick Commercial in the form and list what's broken by room. A punch list with phone photos gets you a faster and more accurate quote than a call from the parking lot. Short answers here, full paperwork on request, and a real person on the phone.
+− Can you come after we close or before we open?
Yes. We schedule visits after closing and early starts before opening, so customers and staff never have to step around a ladder.
+− Do you charge extra for overnight work?
Yes. Overnight work carries a surcharge, quoted by request together with the job. Emergency calls add a $250 fee on top.
+− Can you fix a door closer that slams or will not latch?
Yes. Commercial door closer repair is one of our most common calls. We adjust speed and latch, or replace a worn door closer.
+− Do you work on automatic or revolving doors?
No. Automatic and revolving doors need specialist technicians, so we pass those calls on and stay with manual doors and hardware.
+− Can you clear a slow floor drain in a kitchen?
Yes. We clear a slow drain or a floor drain inside the room. Grease traps stay with pumping companies, since that is not our work.
+− Do you service kitchen equipment or grease traps?
No. Ovens, fryers, walk-ins and grease traps belong to equipment and pumping companies. We fix the room around them instead.
+− Can you board up a broken storefront after a break-in?
Yes. Our board up services Chicago crew covers a broken storefront opening with plywood until the glass company arrives. Pricing is quoted with the call.
+− Will your invoice work for an SBIF reimbursement claim?
Yes. You get an itemized invoice and dated before and after photos. The application itself stays with you, SomerCor and the city.