Whether you are building a fast food restaurant using an existing corporate plan or template, or are creating an independent restaurant from scratch, you will require the services of a professional design consultant.
A design consultant will be able to customize your design plans to your exact needs and ensure it conforms to the local codes and regulations.
Topics: Design, C-Store and Quick-Service, Commercial and Retail
So, you’re looking for the perfect location for your hot new fast food restaurant. There are a lot of great commercial realtors out there.
The good ones can provide you with invaluable advice on choosing a location with high traffic flow –maybe a corner lot with access to passing traffic on two main streets. They can likely recommend a vibrant neighbourhood that matches your customer demographic. They may be able to help you weigh the pros and cons of leasing versus financing, and hopefully, they are master negotiators who can help you get an incredible price. However, a realtor’s expertise only goes so far.
Topics: Design, C-Store and Quick-Service, Commercial and Retail
In a recent post, Beyond the Microwave: Hot Food Options for Your C-Store, we gave you a taste of some options for providing hot food offerings in your C-Store. This week, we’d like to address equipment and design requirements around food safety.
Topics: Current Trends, Innovation, C-Store and Quick-Service, Gas and Petroleum Stations, Commercial and Retail
Look around and it’s clear to see. Appetites have evolved! Expectations have changed. As a result, new equipment options and food trends are displacing the once mighty microwave in C-stores.
CTM asked our independent C-store Consultant, Mark Walsh, about different equipment options available to help you take your food offering to the next level.
Topics: Current Trends, C-Store and Quick-Service, Commercial and Retail
As part of that conversation, he suggested the next key question an owner must ask after deciding to proceed with a hot food offering is whether or not is should be a branded (national franchise) or non-branded product.
Topics: Current Trends, C-Store and Quick-Service, Commercial and Retail
To help shed light on the key points you need to consider, we solicited the insights of an independent consultant and C-Store specialist, Mark Walsh. Mark addresses both questions in this two-part interview.
Topics: Current Trends, C-Store and Quick-Service, Commercial and Retail
Nothing personal... but your customers generally want to find what they're looking for - and get in and out as fast as possible! This is why interior signage is so important. Especially in stores with a large and diverse product offering.
Topics: Current Trends, Design, C-Store and Quick-Service, Gas and Petroleum Stations, Commercial and Retail
