Restaurant & Cafe Painting in Melbourne
Paint takes a beating in a busy kitchen and dining room. We prep properly, work to your roster, and leave the venue clean before you open.
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$10M Public Liability Insured
Family-Owned · Trading since 2000
27 Years Experience on the Tools
RESTAURANT & CAFE PAINTING MELBOURNE
Painting Built Around a Working Venue
A dining room takes more punishment than most rooms in Melbourne. Steam and grease drift out of the kitchen. Chairs scuff the skirtings, bags knock the walls, and the front door swings a few hundred times a day. Paint that looked fine at handover starts to tell a different story two years in.
Restaurant and cafe painting in Melbourne has to work around all of that, and around your trading hours. You cannot shut a busy Croydon cafe for a week, or ask a Ringwood restaurant to skip a Friday night. So the job gets planned to your roster: night work, early mornings, quiet weekdays, or one zone at a time while the rest of the room keeps trading.
We are based in Croydon and work across Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. Babak has been painting in the east for 27 years and is on site for the work, not just the quote. That matters in a venue, because the calls that come up mid-job (which wall to close off, whether the coffee machine can stay powered) get made by the person holding the brush.
The finish has to hold up too. Kitchens, service areas and bathrooms need coatings that cope with heat, moisture and daily cleaning. Walls near the pass and the till take the hardest wear. We pick the system for the surface, prep it properly, and leave the venue ready to open.
WHY VENUE OWNERS PUT IT OFF
The Repaint You Keep Pushing Back
Most venue owners want the place repainted. What stops them is everything that could go wrong while it happens.
"I can't afford to close."
"Flaking paint is a compliance problem, not just an ugly one."
"What if they don't finish before open?"
"Dust ends up everywhere."
"The smell will drive people out."
HOW WE PAINT A LIVE VENUE
Painted Around Your Service, Not Through It
The fix is not painting faster. It is planning the work into the hours your kitchen is already dark, and resetting the space completely before the next service. That is how the doors stay open while the venue gets its finish back.
- Your roster sets the schedule. Overnight, early mornings, the lull between lunch and dinner, or a regular closed day. You tell us the windows, we work in them.
- The space is reset before you open. Every session ends with sheets up, tools out and surfaces wiped down, so staff walk into a venue that is ready to trade.
- Low-odour products where they matter. Water-based, low-VOC systems near dining and food areas, so the room does not smell like a job site at 7am.
- Failing paint comes off properly. Loose and peeling coatings over prep and service areas are removed back to sound substrate, not painted over.
- Dust stays in the work zone. Prep areas are sheeted and contained, benches and equipment covered, and the site cleaned down daily.
Ready to get a free quote for your venue? Tell us your quiet windows and we will build the job around them.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
What Restaurant & Cafe Painting Covers
A venue is not one paint job. The dining room, the kitchen, the bar and the shopfront each take different wear and need different coatings. We scope them separately so the finish holds where it takes the most punishment.
Front of house
Dining room walls, ceilings and feature walls. Skirtings, architraves and door frames that cop chairs and bags. Bar fronts, booth backs and the walls around the till, which wear faster than anything else in the room.
Back of house
Kitchen, prep and wash-up areas in washable, moisture-tolerant systems. Cool room surrounds, service corridors, staff areas and store rooms. Where a kitchen shares walls with a storage or loading zone, the same durable coatings we use for warehouse and industrial painting do the job better than a standard interior finish.
Outside
Shopfronts, awnings, verandah posts and rear entries. Alfresco walls, courtyard fences and anything facing the street, where first impressions are made before a guest reaches the door.
How it works
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You tell us the windows
Trading hours, quiet days, delivery times and the areas that cannot be touched.
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We walk the venue
Every surface checked for moisture, grease, old coatings and flaking. This shapes the quote.
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You get a free written quote
Scope, products and the schedule, in plain English, before anything starts.
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We set up and contain
Benches, equipment and floors covered. Work zones sheeted so dust stays put.
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Prep, then paint
Degrease, sand, repair and prime. Failing paint over food areas comes off completely.
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Reset before you open
Tools out, surfaces wiped, site clean and photographed if you want a record.
Local considerations. Melbourne’s east runs on strips like Main Street Croydon and Maroondah Highway, where cafes trade hard on weekday mornings and go quiet mid-afternoon. That gap is often the best window for front-of-house touch-ups. Winter is damp here, so drying times stretch and moisture in older brick and render walls has to be dealt with before a coat goes on. If your venue sits inside a larger site or shares a building with other tenants, we can quote it as part of a wider commercial painting scope so the work happens in one pass.
📝 Free job quotes. Written, itemised, no obligation.
WHY ABM
A Painter Who Works Around Your Business
Painting a working venue is a scheduling job as much as a trade job. Here is what you get from us.
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27 years painting Melbourne's east
Babak has been on the tools across Croydon, Ringwood, Lilydale and the surrounding suburbs since 2000. Preparation, coatings and finish quality do not change because the building serves food.
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The owner is on your job
Babak quotes the work and then turns up to do it. When a call has to be made at 11pm about which wall gets closed off next, the person making it is the person holding the brush.
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Trade-qualified and insured
Certificate III in Painting and Decorating, plus $10 million public liability cover that can be increased for larger jobs. Ask for the certificates and you will get them.
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Painting and maintenance in one call
Cracked render, a rotten verandah post, patching after a fitout change. The fix-ups that surface mid-job get handled by us, instead of you chasing a second trade.
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Tidy site, honest quote
Floors protected, surfaces covered, clean-down at the end of every session. The price you sign is the price you pay, with no invoice surprises.
WHO YOU’RE DEALING WITH
A Croydon Trade, Not a Call Centre
We are based at Carroll Avenue in Croydon and work across the eastern suburbs, roughly an hour out. Ringwood, Mooroolbark, Lilydale, Bayswater, Kilsyth. It is the same run Babak has been doing for 27 years, so the quote you get is from someone who has already driven past your venue.
Melbourne’s east is a mix of older brick shopfronts, weatherboard conversions and newer render, and each behaves differently under paint. Damp winters and hot, dry summers move those surfaces around. Knowing what a wall is going to do before you coat it is the difference between a finish that holds and one you are repainting in two years.
The credentials are real and on file. Certificate III in Painting and Decorating. $10 million public liability, with the level lifted for bigger projects. A trading company, ABM Painting & Maintenance Pty Ltd, with an ABN behind it. Ask to see any of it and we will send it through.
We take hospitality work on the same terms as everything else we do: proper prep, quality coatings, and a site left clean. If a job is not right for us, we will say so rather than take it on.
- Cert III Painting & Decorating
- $10M Public Liability
- Family-owned since 2000
- 27 years on the tools
- Croydon-based, local team
What Our Customers Say
Rated 4.8 by Melbourne Locals
Common Questions
Restaurant & Cafe Painting Questions, Answered
Do we have to close the restaurant while you paint?
Usually not. The work gets scheduled into your existing gaps: overnight after the kitchen closes, early mornings, the afternoon lull, or a closed day. Larger venues can be done zone by zone so the rest of the room keeps trading.
Will the place smell like paint when we open?
Not if the right products are used. Water-based, low-odour systems are the default near dining and food areas, and every session ends with the space aired out and reset. If a stronger coating is needed somewhere, we tell you upfront and schedule it into your longest closed window.
What paint do you use in a kitchen versus the dining room?
Kitchens get hard-wearing, washable finishes that cope with heat, grease and daily cleaning. Front of house gets a finish that resists chair scuffs and wipes clean without leaving shiny patches. We pick the system per surface and put it in the quote.
What do our staff need to do before you start?
Clear the walls and benches, pull furniture back, and move stock and small equipment somewhere safe. We cover and protect everything that stays, and we can walk your manager through it before the first session.
Are you qualified and insured?
Yes. Certificate III in Painting and Decorating, and $10 million public liability cover that can be increased for larger jobs. Babak has been painting across Melbourne’s east for 27 years and is on site for the work himself. Ask for the paperwork and we will send it.
Get Started
Get a Free Quote for Your Venue
Most venue owners have been meaning to repaint for a year. What holds it up is not the money, it is not knowing how the work fits between last service and first prep. So we start there: you give us the windows, we build the job into them and put the whole scope in writing. You get a venue that looks after itself for years, without losing a single sitting to get there.
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Tell us about the venue. Call or send through the details: what needs painting, and when you trade.
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We visit and quote. Babak walks the site, checks the surfaces, and sends a free written quote with the scope, products and schedule.
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We paint around you. Overnight, early, or zone by zone. Site reset and clean before your doors open.
We are based in Croydon and cover the eastern suburbs, from Ringwood and Mooroolbark out to Lilydale, Bayswater and Kilsyth.
Where we work
Restaurant & Cafe Painting Across Melbourne's East
We work out of Croydon, so the eastern suburbs are the run we already do. The strip venues along Maroondah Highway, the cafes tucked into the shopping centres, the pubs and restaurants on the older main streets. It is a mix of brick shopfronts, render and weatherboard conversions, and each one takes paint differently. That local knowledge is in the quote before we start.
Suburbs we cover include
- 📍Croydon
- 📍Kilsyth
- 📍Mooroolbark
- 📍Ringwood
- 📍Ringwood East
- 📍Lilydale
- 📍Bayswater
- 📍Heathmont
Not on the list? Get in touch, we cover plenty of nearby suburbs across Melbourne’s east.