
16 Aug Vancouver Restaurant Signage for Reopening or New Hours
Restaurant signage is a simple, cost-effective way of advertising reopening or new hours now that COVID-19 restrictions have relaxed, and businesses get somewhat back to normal. Because of earlier restrictions, restaurants will need ways to communicate their reopening, new hours, and any BC Restart Plan Phase 3 restrictions that customers and staff must follow.
Since 1994, Sandbox Signs + Graphics has created sign packages for restaurants in Vancouver and other Lower Mainland, BC cities. View our gallery of restaurant signage and read more about signs for food and beverage businesses.
Benefits of Restaurant Signs
Restaurant signage does much more than advertise menu features and specials. Signage is also a customer service tool, communicating important information to patrons and saving your staff time in answering repetitive questions that could easily be answered by a thoughtfully designed, well-placed sign.
Restaurant signs are:
- Available in many forms for different purposes
Including free standing easel signs, framed or foam core mounted posters, banners (cloth or vinyl), tabletop displays, or adhesive vinyl. - Cost effective
A collection of signs for your restaurant entrance, door, reception area, and service sections won’t break the bank. - Portable in most cases
Many signs, such as banners, freestanding easel signs, and table-top displays are portable so you can easily move them to a different location in the restaurant. - A communication tool that prevents confusion and frustration
Restaurant signage is first and foremost a basic, yet necessary communication tool. Even before your customers enter your restaurant, signs can clearly answer the many questions returning or new customers may have about your business “rules”, restrictions, hours, and expectations of customers, now that COVID-19 restrictions have relaxed.
Types of Restaurant Signage and Where to Place Them
Reopening or “Open” Signs
Types of signs: sandwich board, door sign, banner, decal, adhesive letters.
Where to place the sign: on door, sidewalk in front of door, hung from awning.
Restaurant Hours
Types of signs: door or window decal.
Where to place: on entrance door facing the sidewalk, on window near entrance door.
COVID-19 Restrictions
Types of signs: poster on freestanding easel, sandwich board, tabletop display.
Where to the place the sign: just inside or outside your main entrance, in the waiting area or on the host podium or desk.
Read helpful sign design tips.
Restaurant Signage Examples
The following are just a few signs we’ve created for Vancouver and BC restaurants.

Window signs for a Vancouver café. Self-adhesive window decals are affordable and effective, can even form part of the restaurant design as is the case with Bel Café.

Grand opening window posters for a Vancouver area dessert bar and bakery.

Main business sign and window signs for café and gelato bar.

Sandwich board sign with branding for Kaplan’s deli and restaurant in Vancouver.
Receive a Free Quote for Restaurant Signage
If you have questions about signage for your Vancouver area restaurant, please contact us or request a free quote. Sandbox Signs experts will guide you to the right kind of signs for your needs.