What MEP checks matter before signing a restaurant lease?

The shell's capacity against your cooking line's demand: the electrical load actually available to the unit, a lawful extract route to a discharge point, gas availability or a genuinely viable all-electric plan, and drainage with proper grease-management provision. A unit that fails a check can still be leased — knowingly, with the upgrade cost and obligation negotiated into the deal — but discovering the shortfall after signature puts the cost and the delay on you.

From Restaurant Kitchen MEP Requirements — the invisible half of the build — the full reading, with the method behind this answer.