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Design Experts at a Glance
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| Saturday, May 17 |
Cini-Little International, Inc. |
| Cini-Little has specialized, for over 50 years, in resolving foodservice and hospitality issues, with a specific focus on hotels/resort, restaurants, corporate dining, hospitals, universities, sports and convention facilities. |
DAS Architects |
| Founded by Susan M. Davidson, IDC and David A. Schultz, AIA in 1990, DAS Architects offers a full range of architectural, interior design, and procurement services. The talented staff of DAS is highly-esteemed for their work in creating more than 100 prestigious restaurants and hospitality projects. DAS has become sought after to design small and large-scale projects throughout the region, and is currently designing projects in other major cities including Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C., and New York. The firm's work, which has been regularly featured in Contract Design, Chef Magazine, Restaurants USA, Retail Design and Interiors. DAS offers a diverse range of architectural, interior design, and consulting services such as space planning, site analysis, theme development, and project management. |
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JPS Design |
| JPS Design & Project Management is a full service Milwaukee/Chicago based Licensed Design Firm with over 10 years professional experience, specializing in complete turn key service for the restaurant industry. Our capabilities range from Interior Design to Construction project management. We have had the privilege to develop and execute our designs to several nationwide restaurant chains. We continue to design and manage remodel and new construction projects throughout the United States. |
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Robert Rippe and Associates, Inc. |
| Robert Rippe and Associates, Inc. provides planning and design services to the gaming, hospitality, education, healthcare and corporate dining projects. They help clients formulate an operational plan, select appropriate equipment, develop efficient functional designs, and coordinate with architects, engineers, and contractors. |
| Sunday, May 18 |
Cornyn Fasano Group, Inc. |
| Management consultants that, for 30+ years, act as client-advocated for noncommercial foodservice clients (colleges/universities, corporations, government, K-12 schools, corrections, and specialty facilites such as museums, concert halls, etc.) |
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Michael Brady, Inc. Architects |
| With over 15 years experience in restaurant design, diversified clientele, and projects of various sizes, Michael Brady, Inc. remains at the forefront of design and technological solutions. Due to their in-house architecture and engineering capabilites, including civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical as well as interior design and construction management, Michael Brady, Inc. is able to save its clients time and money. Their firm shares the desire to fulfull the clients' needs and wants while making their vision come to life. |
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Ricca Newmark Design |
| Ricca Newmark Design is a new and unique hospitality design firm offering a single professional source for the design of both back-of-house and front-of-house areas of projects. Ricca Newmark Design coordinates Architecture and Interior Design to create successful Hospitality and Restaurant spaces that are efficient, classic, and enduring. Areas of focus are: foodservice planning, dining facility planning, programming and design, equipment surveys, interior architecture and interior design, operations transition services, and laundry design/consulting services. |
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Vision 360 Design |
| Vision 360 is a Dallas based team of seasoned restaurant and hospitality design professionals representing every facet of project development with a collective experience of over 95 years. We are a full service turn-key hospitality consulting firm with established specialization in strategic areas of both restaurants and entertainment venues that offers a menu of services geared toward improving your current operation or creating the foundation for a new concept. With partners who are former owners and operators of hospitality and entertainment venues, we give our clients the advantage of having professionals who are not only experts in design and development but understand the bottom line of ownership...to make a profit. |
| Monday, May 19 |
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Design Collective Incorporated |
| Design Collective Incorporated is a team of architects, interior designers, and visual communicators...crafting quality solutions for business. As a fully independent, interior architectural firm, DCI takes pride in offering a wide range of design solutions for a diverse list of regional and national clients in the hospitality and entertainment industry. For four decades, DCI has maintained a belief that we design for our clients...and not for ourselves. Thus, as you review our portfolio you will see competent solutions that meet both our clients' business plans and budgets. We are a firm with a national reputation and client base, and continue to be recognized as one of the nation's "Top Giants" as reported annually by Interior Design Magazine. |
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Dynamic Designs, Inc. |
| Dynamic Designs, Inc. brings to each new project a wealth of knowledge and understanding that it has gathered from its thirty years of design and architectural experience. Our company specializes in restaurants that entertain, due to an added expertise in Family Entertainment Center design. Dynamic Designs knows how to make each restaurant simultaneously 1) profitable and efficient and 2) customer-friendly, comfortable, and pleasing to the eye. Outstanding and creative design results are what make successful restaurants that bring customers back on a regular basis. Dynamic Designs delivers this, and more, to each project. |
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Landmark Design Inc. |
| Landmark Design Inc. provides professional foodservice facilities planning, interior design, and contract management capabilities with expertise in all types of foodservice facilities, construction, and operations. LDI also has expertise in laundry and housekeeping design. Serving clients on a national and international basis, LDI also has strategic partnerships with Institutional Design, Inc., of Hollywood, FL; Steve Correll Food Service Design, LLC of Dallas, TX; Stein Architectura Gastronomica of Santiago, Chile, and Vital Concept Design PVT, Ltd., of New Delhi, India. Starting January 1, the alliance also operates under the name IDEA Worldwide, Inc. as one entity. |
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MVP Services Group |
| MVP Services Group is a food facilities design and management advisory consultancy employing the most up to date practices in the industry. MVP teams with architects, builders and operators in the layout and design of commercial foodservice establishments both public and private. |
| Tuesday, May 20 |
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Culinary Options |
| The key focus for Culinary Options is to assist operators in developing concept clarity and intelligent menu content to support the content before getting to the kitchen designer. Once the conceptual menu is clarified, we then work further in establishing food cost goals, menu pricing logic, recipe development, costing and staff training. If an operation is in motion, and underperforming, we help them identify causes and solutions. Our experience shows us that designers can be far more effective, and create more spot-on results if they first have a conceptual template around which to design. It is challenging to design a kitchen if a menu, whose equipment, work flow, and storage needs have not first been determined. We often partner with designers to assure continuity of process, design, and implementation of a total project. |
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Panergetics, Inc. |
| Panergetics is a national Feng Shui consulting firm with offices in San Francisco and New York, providing services exclusively for businesses and approaches Feng Shui from the perspective of Environmental Psychology. For more information about Panergetics, please visit their web site. |
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Proteus Group |
| Proteus Group was founded in 2001 by an entrepreneurial team of experienced architects, designers, and engineers who have an average of 20 years experience each. Based in Chicago, Illinois, the firm currently has more than $500 million in committed construction volume and offers a full spectrum of service, including master planning, space planning, programming, architecture, engineering and interior design. Among its specialties are designing both classic and modern restaurants that convey clients' distinct brands. Proteus Group has worked with a variety of restaurants in Chicagoland and elsewhere to develop original spaces that stand out as innovative and provide guests with a unique dining experience. |
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Systems Planning, Ltd. |
| Systems Planning, Ltd., is a foodservice consulting and planning firm with over 40 years of experience. Specific areas of focus include large corporate office buildings, hotels, resorts, and airline kitchens. The firm also provides remodeling services for all major foodservice areas and has designed for Sears, Allstate Insurance, Discover Card, Hyatt, United Airlines, and many other major companies. |
Contact janderson@restaurant.org with specific Ask the Design Experts questions.
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