Own the breakfast your neighbourhood lines up for.
A family founded Canadian breakfast institution: 100+ locations built on one promise, Fresh is Tastiest®.
The formula
Simple food, quality ingredients, an open kitchen, one shift a day, and regulars who come back every week.
Simple food
Prepped fresh daily and cooked to order. Flat top grills, pat dry bacon, and no deep frying.
An open kitchen
Whole potatoes cut in store and finished on the flat top grill. Only fresh, 100% orange juice. Grade A small eggs from local Ontario farms.
One shift a day
Breakfast and lunch, then the day is done. Open every day of the year except December 25.
Where we're growing
Canada, in Eastern Ontario, Alberta and New Brunswick, and select U.S. markets.
High traffic and highly visible street locations in addition to freestanding pad sites and end caps with patio (where possible).
1,000 to 1,500 square feet with basement areas
Approximately 2,200 square feet
40 years of proof
From a 28 seat room in the Beaches to Canada's leading full service breakfast restaurant franchise.
- 1985Queen Street in the Beaches, Toronto. Named after the Don Henley hit “Sunset Grill”, top 10 on the Billboard charts that year.
- 2004Franchising begins in Mississauga, at Winston Churchill and Eglinton.
- 2014The 100th franchise is sold. St. Albert opens as the first Alberta restaurant.
- 2015Ottawa, Lansdowne Park.
- 2025Las Vegas, Nevada. The first U.S. restaurant.
2025 Outstanding Corporate Citizen Award from the Canadian Franchise Association
Award of Recognition from the Canadian Cancer Society celebrating 15 years of the Pancake Tuesday Fundraiser
Toronto Sun Readers' Choice Award for Best Breakfast, first won in 1998
Ask about a franchise
Tell us where you'd like to open and the Sunset Grill franchise team will be in touch.
Franchise questions
The short answers, in Sunset Grill's own words.
How big is a Sunset Grill?
Street units require 1,000 to 1,500 square feet with basement areas while pad units require approximately 2,200 square feet.
Where are you expanding?
Across Canada, in Eastern Ontario, Alberta and New Brunswick, and in select U.S. markets, with high traffic and highly visible street locations in addition to freestanding pad sites and end caps with patio (where possible).
Is every restaurant owner operated?
Yes. All Sunset Grill restaurants are owner operated.
When did franchising start?
Sunset Grill has been franchising since 2004, when the first franchise opened in Mississauga at Winston Churchill and Eglinton.
See the formula in person.
Visit any Sunset Grill at breakfast and watch the open kitchen, the one shift and the regulars for yourself.
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