Restaurants & hotels — one vendor for fire, video & access
Hospitality is one of our largest verticals. Fireside Security designs, installs, and monitors fire alarm with kitchen hood integration, POS-linked loss-prevention video, and multi-site access control for restaurants, restaurant groups, hotels, and mixed-use hospitality portfolios across California — under one licensed C-10 contractor with 24/7 UL-Listed monitoring.
Restaurants and hotels fail annual inspections for the same handful of reasons: hood systems and fire panels are wired by different contractors and never actually talk, cameras are pointed at the dining room instead of the register, and access to the back-of-house is still a shared code taped inside a cabinet. We fix the whole stack — one designer, one installer, one service number.
What we deliver
01 · Kitchen hood + fire alarm
UL 300 hood suppression tied into the fire alarm control panel with automatic gas shut-off, appliance shut-down, evacuation notification, and central-station reporting.
02 · POS-integrated video
IP cameras with POS overlay on every register, plus dining-room, back-door, and walk-in coverage. Search by transaction, employee, or exception.
03 · Multi-site access control
Cloud-managed access for back-of-house, offices, walk-ins, and guest amenities. Role-based schedules, mobile credentials, one dashboard across every location.
04 · 24/7 monitoring
UL-Listed central-station monitoring for fire, burglar, and hold-up alarms with multi-site event routing and priority dispatch.
Who we serve
Independent restaurants & fine dining
Multi-unit restaurant groups & franchises
Quick-service & fast-casual chains
Bars, breweries & tasting rooms
Full-service & boutique hotels
Resorts & mixed-use hospitality
Cloud & ghost kitchens
Country clubs & event venues
Codes & standards we build to
NFPA 96 — Ventilation Control & Fire Protection of Commercial Cooking Operations
UL 300 — Fire Extinguishing Systems for Restaurant Cooking Areas
NFPA 72 — National Fire Alarm & Signaling Code
California Fire Code (CFC) — current adopted edition
CSFM listings for panels, sounders, and hood detection
Restaurant case studies
A snapshot of recent California restaurant and QSR programs. Client names are withheld under NDA; references are available on request during proposal.
Restaurant group · 14 locations
Standardized fire, video & access across a Bay Area restaurant group
Before
Three legacy alarm vendors, four camera platforms, and shared PIN codes on every back door. Two failed AHJ inspections in 12 months.
After
One C-10 vendor, one cloud dashboard, mobile credentials for 340 employees. Every site inspected and cleared inside 90 days.
14
Sites unified
100%
AHJ pass rate, YoY
-38%
Monthly monitoring spend
"Fireside was the first vendor that actually walked every restaurant, not just the flagship. We finally have one number to call when anything trips."
QSR franchise · 27 locations
POS-linked loss-prevention video across a fast-casual franchise
Before
Cash and inventory shrink of roughly 2.1% of sales. No way to tie voids or refunds back to camera footage without pulling DVRs on-site.
After
IP cameras with POS overlay on every register, indexed by transaction, employee, and exception. Managers review flagged events from any browser.
-63%
Shrink within 6 months
27
Locations on one dashboard
< 30s
Time to pull any transaction on video
"The POS overlay paid for the whole rollout in the first quarter. Exception reports that used to take a week now take a coffee break."
Frequently asked questions
Do you integrate kitchen hood suppression with the fire alarm?
Yes. Our C-10 technicians tie the UL 300 hood suppression system into the fire alarm control panel so a hood discharge automatically shuts down gas and appliance power, initiates evacuation notification, and transmits a supervised signal to our UL-Listed central station for dispatch.
Can cameras be linked to the point-of-sale system?
Yes. We deploy IP video with POS overlay on every register so every void, refund, discount, and cash-drawer event is timestamped against the register-facing camera feed. Managers search by transaction, employee, or exception in seconds.
How do you handle multi-site restaurant groups?
One cloud dashboard covers every location — access, video, fire, and burglar events roll up under a single account. Credentials, schedules, and user roles are managed centrally, and new locations are onboarded from the same template so systems stay consistent across the portfolio. For franchise and fast-casual footprints, see our QSR & fast-casual program.
Do you service hotels and mixed-use hospitality?
Yes — full-service and boutique hotels, and mixed-use with restaurant, retail, and residential components. See our dedicated hotels & lodging program for details, which includes annual fire alarm inspections, sleeping-area audibility (SF pillow test) where required, guestroom access, and back-of-house video. For late-hour venues like nightclubs, breweries, and tasting rooms, see bars & nightlife.
Can you install without shutting down service?
Yes. Work is sequenced after-hours or during dark days, with temporary supervision in place so the space is never left unprotected and never closed during peak service.
What certifications and licensing do your technicians hold?
Fireside Security is a licensed California C-10 electrical contractor with NICET-certified fire alarm technicians and factory-trained hood, access control, and video installers. Every hospitality install is stamped and inspected against NFPA 72, NFPA 96, and the California Fire Code.
Ready to standardize your locations?
Send us your address list — we'll walk each site, spec the hood integration, camera coverage, and access hardware, and quote as one turnkey program.
