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Food Service Facility Planning & Design

Whether you’re planning a new facility or renovating an existing service, Clarion’s imaginative, practical planning and execution will assure you of a successful outcome.

Research has shown that customers equate “healthy” with “fresh” and define fresh as “made while I watch.” This standard is at the core of our food service designs.

Feasibility Study

We’ll learn your requirements, survey and analyze the potential sites or existing facilities and recommend the best approach to meeting your objectives.

Concept Development

The service concepts we develop will meet customers’ needs and expectations imaginatively and provide for efficient, convenient service and an economical operation.

Design

We plan employee or student dining facilities to meet key customer needs: fresh, wholesome meals; foods “ready to go” for those who want to make a selection and consume the meal elsewhere, and a comfortable, welcoming environment. Our innovative dining center designs provide:

  • Meals prepared at the counter, to the customer’s order, as practical. This approach minimizes the space needed for the kitchen and support areas, as well as delighting the customer.
  • Convenient placement of “grab-and-go” displays for the customer in a hurry.
  • Smooth traffic flow in the servery and at the cashier station.
  • Efficient, labor-saving equipment and layout in the kitchen.

We also develop and plan:

  • Specialized facilities for executive dining, conference services and catering.
  • Informal cafes and limited service outlets.
  • In-house retail stores.

We work closely with you and your architect to ensure the dining facility achieves your objectives, is welcoming to customers and is cost-effective to build and operate.

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Case Study

New College Café Puts Meal Prep Up Front

“A little less onion please,” the student told the chef preparing her lunch at the exhibition cooking station. She was among opening day customers at a college’s new campus center café.

When she received her lunch, she joined fellow students in the airy seating area, graced on three sides with full-length windows overlooking the tree-shaded campus.

That’s not the way it was in prior years. A dimly-lit servery was reached via a narrow stairway from the main floor of the campus center. The seating area was windowless. Fewer than 300 of 12,000 students made the trip on any day.
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CLARION GROUP Food Service Consultants, P.O. Box 158, Kingston, NH 03848-0158
Phone: (603) 642-8011    Fax: (603) 642-7744    

Offering food service facility design, food service management consulting, facilities management consulting,
sustainable food service facility design. Nationwide food service consultants.

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