Specialty projects.
Design Development Company brings decades of hospitality, restaurant and foodservice experience into environments that operate very differently from a traditional restaurant. Healthcare facilities, universities, corporate campuses, airports, staff dining, lounges and public foodservice spaces each call for their own approach.
The setting changes. The need for thoughtful design does not.
A hospital café isn’t a restaurant dropped inside a medical building. A university dining space isn’t simply a cafeteria with better furniture. An airport lounge has its own traffic patterns, security conditions and pace. Corporate dining has to support employees and the culture of the organization around it.
Design Development Company approaches each specialty project around the people using it, the way the facility operates and the character the client wants to create.
The layout, materials, lighting, equipment and experience are developed together.
Specialty projects work best when the practical and creative decisions support the same idea.
Space planning, foodservice operations, finishes, lighting, furniture, graphics, equipment and the overall atmosphere influence one another. Treating them as isolated decisions creates friction. Developing them as one environment creates clarity.
Different sectors. Different needs.
The design language may change dramatically from one client to the next. The process still begins with understanding who will use the space and what needs to happen there.
Healthcare
Hospital cafés, serveries, physician lounges and healthcare foodservice spaces where comfort, circulation and reliable operations need to work together.
Education
University cafés, campus dining and school foodservice environments that must handle busy meal periods while still feeling connected to the institution around them.
Airports
Bars, lounges, snack facilities and foodservice concepts developed for travel environments where space, visibility and guest movement matter.
Corporate
Corporate cafés, employee dining and branded foodservice spaces developed around the company, its staff and the building they occupy.
Foodservice spaces within healthcare environments.
Healthcare dining serves a mixed audience. Employees may have a short break between shifts. Visitors may spend much of the day at the facility. Patients and families may want somewhere away from the clinical side of the building for a few minutes.
Design Development Company’s healthcare work includes cafés, serveries, physician lounges, dining environments and foodservice facilities.
Designing for guests who are already going somewhere.
Airport foodservice and lounge projects operate within an environment where every guest has another destination. The concept has to be visible, easy to understand and comfortable without losing sight of circulation and the larger terminal around it.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
LAX
LAX
Greensboro, NC
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Dulles International
Workplace dining can have its own identity.
Corporate cafés and employee dining environments serve a practical purpose, but that doesn’t mean they should feel generic. They are part of the workplace and can reflect the character of the organization while supporting the employees who use them every day.
Foodservice design has been part of our work for decades.
Much of Design Development Company’s specialty work grows from the same experience behind its restaurant projects: understanding how people move through a foodservice environment, how staff needs to work, and how the space should feel while all of that is happening.
That experience can be applied to a hospital café, university dining facility, corporate servery or airport lounge without pretending those environments are interchangeable.
From early concept through project development.
The scope can be adjusted around a focused renovation, a foodservice component within a larger facility, or a completely new environment.
Concept Development
Establish the experience, identity and project direction before individual design decisions take over.
Space Planning
Coordinate circulation, seating, service, production and support spaces around actual facility use.
Interior Design
Develop materials, lighting, furniture, finishes and visual details as part of the complete environment.
Foodservice Design
Plan kitchens, serveries, cafés, counters, bars and equipment around operational requirements.
Renovations
Rework existing environments where the current layout, appearance or service model no longer fits.
Project Coordination
Coordinate design information with consultants, facility teams and the people responsible for implementation.
“With the power of our creative studio, we can express new, unique and exciting foodservice projects for our contract-services partners and their customers.”
That is exactly what makes it a specialty project.
Tell us about the facility, the people who will use it and what the space needs to accomplish. Design Development Company can help bring the different pieces together into one coordinated environment.