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Motorized enclosures, manual roll systems, and Nano sun shades installed for restaurant groups and hospitality operators nationwide.
America’s Finest Restaurants Choose Southern Patio for Their Restaurant Patio Enclosures
Browse the following gallery of our many installations:
Case Studies
The Bee & The Biscuit — Virginia Beach, VA
“SPE comes from Texas and just hit a home run for us with their quality, speed, skill and simplicity.” Their second set of custom enclosures — deposit to installed in under six weeks.
Lazy Dog Restaurant + Bar — 36 Locations, Eight States
How Lazy Dog keeps every patio open in every climate — desert sun to lake-effect snow — with one enclosure partner since 2020.
Willie’s Grill & Icehouse — Leander, TX
Twelve motorized curtains and two steel exit doors: clear windows where guests sit, sun shades where the afternoon sun hits. Deposit in January, installed in March 2026.
Chuy’s — Manor, TX
Six motorized curtains in Chuy’s yellow plus eight fixed panels, installed at night so the restaurant never closed. Ten weeks from deposit to sign-off.
Canopy by Hilton — San Antonio, TX
A rooftop hotel patio with no place to mount: four new posts set into the ceiling and two motorized sun shade curtains, lifted up from the street.
Hard Rock Casino — Cincinnati, OH
28 motorized sun shades across three patios in one season: 24 on two gaming patios in May 2026, then four shades 15 feet 6 inches tall on the Hard Rock Cafe patio in August.
Perry’s Steakhouse & Grille — 8 Locations, 6 States
Sixty-one motorized and hand-crank sun shades in tobacco mesh, the same standard on every patio since 2020, including the first Arizona Perry’s in Gilbert.
Gloria’s Latin Cuisine — 16 Locations, Texas
About 125 motorized screens and 20,000 square feet across sixteen Gloria’s patios since 2016, each matched to its building, from a tile-roof awning to a brick lattice to a mall storefront.
Hat Creek Burger Company — 13 Locations, Texas
About 160 red-bordered clear panels on thirteen family patios in three years, bought in batches and installed one crew trip per region, 2017 to 2019.
Pluckers Wing Bar — 19 Locations, Texas
More than 200 charcoal and clear manual panels on nineteen Pluckers patios since 2017, opened in waves of four and five stores, with the first patio rebuilt nine seasons later.
Chuy’s — 29 Locations, 6 States
About 330 panels on twenty-nine Chuy’s patios since 2017: clear under the palapas, mesh on the sun walls, fixed clear in the breeze-block prototype, and since 2025 motorized curtains in Chuy’s yellow.
Willie’s Grill & Icehouse — 16 Locations, Texas
About 170 panels and 20 doors on sixteen Willie’s patios since 2020: manual on the stores as they stood, motorized curtains and mesh sun shades as the group rebuilt them.
Lupe Tortilla — 17 Locations, Texas
About 130 red-and-clear manual panels on seventeen Lupe patios, ten of them in one wave between December 2020 and April 2021.
Fox Restaurant Concepts — 9 Locations, 8 States
Flower Child and Culinary Dropout patios from Austin to Salt Lake City, built to Fox’s design book, manual in the south and motorized as the brands go north.
Fuzzy’s Taco Shop — 14 Locations, 4 States
Fourteen franchise owners in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Missouri, from red manual panels on a Waco porch to yellow motorized curtains inside Oklahoma City’s breeze-block wall.
Torchy’s Tacos — 8 Locations
On Torchy’s patios since 2014: manual clear panels across Texas, two stores on their second set, and black motorized screens for the brand’s Indiana winter.
Del Frisco’s Grille — 7 Locations, 4 States
Motorized curtains matched to the building at every Del Frisco’s patio since 2015, up to 18 feet tall, with Southlake remade in kind after eight years.
The Mint Gaming Hall — Williamsburg, KY
19 manual roll clear panels on The Back Yard patio, measured on an active construction site and installed before the casino opened in September 2022. Still rolling three years later.
Fairmont Austin — Austin, TX
Eight motorized sun shades on a rooftop pool terrace, 12 feet 6 inches tall between twelve new posts. Installed April 2022, serviced by us ever since.
Zanzibar Rooftop — Austin Marriott Downtown
Seven motorized black mesh sun shades on a seventh-floor rooftop bar for White Lodging: four in November 2020 on a six-week expedited build, three more in January 2024.
The Durham Hotel — Durham, NC
Nine motorized rooftop bays that swap mesh for clear vinyl by season, plus ten manual clear curtains, on a 1960s bank turned boutique hotel. Installed December 2016.
Maximo — Houston, TX
Five navy motorized curtains with clear windows, four fixed panels and a door around a sloped corner patio, under an awning that stayed. Six weeks from deposit to sign-off.
Crosswinds Pavilion — Kyle, TX
Nineteen clear panels and a steel door close a community amenity pavilion, with gable panels cut around the stone fireplace. Installed March 2022, serviced by us since.
Flower Child — Austin, TX
Thirteen black-bordered clear panels and two steel exit doors on The Domain, built inside Fox Restaurant Concepts’ design package. Installed November 2020.
Pure Social — Richardson, TX
Nine navy and clear manual panels and two framed steel doors on a patio where the roof and the slab slope opposite ways. Deposit to install in under seven weeks, September 2026.
La Griglia — Houston, TX
Five motorized screens set to a curved stucco wall under a striped awning, then three more phases as Landry’s lived with it. Sixteen panels, 2023 to 2024.
Cheba Hut — South Austin, TX
Four motorized curtains in Cheba green with clear windows, a fixed panel and two framed doors on a corner patio, deposit to install in two months, early 2026.
Hideaway Pizza — 3 Locations, Texas
Motorized screens on both floors of three new two-story stores, 31 screens with READY Construction, Plano, McKinney and Fort Worth, 2023 to 2025.
Parry’s Pizzeria — Fort Worth, TX
Eight motorized mesh-and-clear screens sixteen feet tall and two framed doors on six new posts around a corner patio, August 2024.
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Restaurant Groups We Work With
Perry's Steakhouse & Grille, Carve American Grille, Darden Restaurants (Chuy's), The Cheesecake Factory, Lazy Dog Restaurant + Bar (36 locations), Culinary Dropout, Kirby Ice House, Flower Child, Torchy's Tacos, Fuzzy's Taco Shop, Mama Margie's, Cheba Hut, Tortilleria el Rancherito, Blue Moon Bodega, and many other regional and national restaurant groups.
Perry's Steakhouse & GrilleThe Cheesecake FactoryChuy's (Darden)Torchy's TacosCulinary DropoutFlower ChildKirby Ice HouseCarve American GrilleFuzzy's Taco ShopNorth ItaliaCheba HutPluckers Wing BarThe HenryMama Margie'sBlue Moon Bodega
20+Years commercial
30+Locations for one national chain
65 mphWarrantied; Nano 97/99 shade tested to 110
6 wksSigned to installed
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