Spark Signs & Graphics fabricates and installs restaurant signage for independents, cafes, bars, food halls, and franchise locations across the Pittsburgh metro and western Pennsylvania. From our shop in Mars, PA we build front-lit and reverse-lit channel letters, illuminated cabinet signs, exterior menu boards, A-frames, full window graphics, and ADA wayfinding — and we install during off-service hours so dinner cover counts aren’t impacted by a ladder in the dining room.
Restaurant sign permits in the Pittsburgh metro are typically straightforward — most boroughs treat restaurant storefronts as standard commercial signage — but illuminated signs over a certain square footage trigger an electrical permit on top of the sign permit, and historic-district storefronts (Strip District, Lawrenceville, Mount Lebanon) have additional review. We sort the permit type before quoting so the timeline matches reality.
For multi-location concepts, the spec sheet matters: channel letter style and color, cabinet construction, menu board hardware (if illuminated, daily-changeable, or digital), and window graphic placement. We document the spec once for the flagship and replicate per location, which means store #4 looks like store #1 — not like the cheapest local sign vendor’s rendition of store #1.
Front-lit and halo-lit channel letters built to actually get noticed at 7:30pm in Lawrenceville, Mount Lebanon, or the Strip District — illumination spec’d for ambient street-light levels, not a showroom.
One channel-letter spec, one menu-board hardware standard, one window-graphic template — fabricated and installed identically at every storefront from Cranberry to Mount Lebanon to Robinson Township.
Tactile ADA restroom signs, allergen-disclosure signage where required, exit and capacity signs to current PA fire code — all addressed before the health department walks in.
