The Future of Hospitality Dining
Exploring Capabilities and Partnership
Comprehensive
Design Strategy
- Due Diligence
- Blocking
- Schematic Design
- Design Development
- Construction Documentation
- Construction Administration
- Post-Occupancy Review & Optimization
Envision Design Studio
We are a performance-driven experience studio backed by an ecosystem no other studio can replicate.
The Power Of Compass
We operate within an integrated platform of analytics, procurement, and manufacturing partnerships that allow us to innovate and execute at scale.
How We Do It
Why Design Matters
Relevant Experience
Our portfolio includes large scale headquarters and technically complex workplace environments.
PROJECT TYPES
- MULTI CONCEPT DINING FACILITIES
- HIGH THROUGHPUT PRODUCTION KITCHENS
- DIGITAL ORDERING AND PICKUP SYSTEMS
- GRAB-AND-GO & MICROMARKETS
- PANTRIES, VENDING, & AUTOMATED SOLUTIONS
- OUTDOOR ACTIVATIONS
- SEATING ENVIRONMENTS
- LOUNGES & CLUBS
Large-Scale Premium Pantry Ecosystem
A distributed pantry experience designed to bring premium food and beverage moments closer to employees throughout the day. Back-of house production supports a consistent, high-quality offering while keeping the experience simple and intuitive.
THE FUTURE FITS ANYWHERE
Seattle, WA USA
This compact servery maintains the lowest food & labor costs in the client portfolio with savings of 15%. Guest satisfaction ratings are higher than average with an appreciation for the increased variety, consistent quality, and ease of service.
Scope
- Programming
- Concept Design
- Experience Strategy
- Food Service Design
- Construction Admin
FRICTIONLESS ENVIRONMENTS
Grab-N-Go Market
Digital Restaurant
(3) Concept Café
Troy, MO, USA
This café and market experience is built for the pace of production, offering fast, intuitive access to quality food throughout the day. A self-service coffee bar and grab-and-go market support efficiency, while a frictionless digital restaurant introduces rotating variety without slowing the line. Three distinct concept cafés add moments of choice and familiarity, creating a daily rhythm that feels both reliable and refreshed.
Scope
- Programming
- Concept Design
- Experience Blueprint
- Food Service Design
- Construction Admin
STRATEGIC HOSPITALITY
(2) Multi-Concept Dining Halls + Market
(6) Outdoor Activations
Creating a hospitality-forward campus that fuels connection, performance, and pride. This new food & beverage strategy brings client’s culture of care to the table — delivering consistent quality, wellness-forward choices, and dynamic spaces that move at the pace of modern work.
Scope
- Programming
- Concept Design
- Experience Strategy
- Food Service Design
MANUFACTURING MEETS HOSPITALITY
(5) Concept Cafe
Coffee Bar
Market
At an important manufacturing facility, the new café redefines what manufacturing workplace dining can be. More than a place to eat, it establishes an HQ-quality amenity on campus — a space that signals investment in people while supporting community connection. With five distinct concepts, a coffee bar, and market options, the café brings a new level of hospitality and variety to the daily rhythm of manufacturing work.
Scope
- Employee Surveys
- Programming
- Concept Design
- Food Service Design
- Equipment + Millwork Procurement
- Construction Administration
ELEVATING EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE
(6) Concept Servery + Graze Bar Market
All Day Beverage Bar
Company Store
Leveraging deep employee insights, we translated data into actionable design moves that redefined the HQ servery as a destination for connection, restoration, and elevated dining. From layout to flow to premium food concepts, every decision reflects our ability to listen, interpret, and design environments that inspire people every day.
Scope
- Employee Surveys
- Programming
- Concept Design
- Food Service Design
- Experience Blueprint
- Wayfinding + Placemaking
- Construction Administration
By listening and understanding, we translate client needs into innovations that improve environments. We refer to this as our emergence management philosophy. This approach brings a greater diversity of experience and ideas that truly enhance every project, unlike the traditional command and control model. BUILT brings a unique range of personnel to manage the end-to-end process from your first thoughts to successful closeout, commissioning and verification.
Our charter is to bring our business partners, foodservice operators and clients together to provide the most efficient, thoughtful and cost-effective solutions to their foodservice design opportunities. We do this through our project management software, industry partnerships and a highly experienced management team.
BUILT has been servicing clients across the country for more than two decades. The team’s culture focuses on innovation in design. The BUILT team specializes in many disciplines, from holistic planning to site-specific design to project management.
Areas of Specialties:
- Dining facilities
- Renovation of existing spaces
- Mechanical, electrical and plumbing
- Fire life safety
- ADA-specific renovations and remodeling
- Interior design
We are:
- Process managers
- Change agents
- Experience designers
- Client advisors
- Master planners
- ROI analysts
- Industry influencers
What We Do: Experience Design
By listening and understanding, we translate client needs into innovations that improve environments.
Understanding the Best Innovative Environments
We want to dig deep with you to understand your vision, competition and target market to develop the best facilities possible and create enticing environments that connect and engage.
Forming Spaces for Collaboration
Physical workplaces have taken on new roles as we redefine industrial and commercial standards. With deep roots in the retail sector, we have always been at the forefront of creating engaging and experiential environments. We build on that history to create spaces that adapt to shifting needs with flexible design components. Despite the changing landscape of public and private spaces, our goal remains to provide energized and vibrant places that spark spontaneous collaborations and interactions.
Creating Spaces
Where People Want to Be
Our firm is made of multidiscipline experts with experience in retail and institutional work, as well as worship, office and healthcare facilities. The common thread throughout every project is that we create places where people want to be. As a result, we don’t have a style or a design team that replicates projects. We stop, we listen, we understand your specific project needs and the community within this context to deliver bespoke solutions that serve and inspire you.
Getting the Nuts and Bolts Right
Evoking an emotional response is part of good design, but it is only when aesthetic appeal combines with application that an environment becomes truly welcoming, useful and accessible to all its visitors. Our designs are always inclusive and we make it our mission to not only meet the requirements for accessibility, but to exceed them so everyone feels welcome.
Understanding the Best Innovative Environments
We want to dig deep with you to understand your vision, competition and target market to develop the best facilities possible and create enticing environments that connect and engage.
Forming Spaces for Collaboration
Physical workplaces have taken on new roles as we redefine industrial and commercial standards. With deep roots in the retail sector, we have always been at the forefront of creating engaging and experiential environments. We build on that history to create spaces that adapt to shifting needs with flexible design components. Despite the changing landscape of public and private spaces, our goal remains to provide energized and vibrant places that spark spontaneous collaborations and interactions.
Creating Spaces
Where People Want to Be
Our firm is made of multidiscipline experts with experience in retail and institutional work, as well as worship, office and healthcare facilities. The common thread throughout every project is that we create places where people want to be. As a result, we don’t have a style or a design team that replicates projects. We stop, we listen, we understand your specific project needs and the community within this context to deliver bespoke solutions that serve and inspire you.
Getting the Nuts and Bolts Right
Evoking an emotional response is part of good design, but it is only when aesthetic appeal combines with application that an environment becomes truly welcoming, useful and accessible to all its visitors. Our designs are always inclusive and we make it our mission to not only meet the requirements for accessibility, but to exceed them so everyone feels welcome.
Benefits
Through the dynamic use of our deep portfolio of assets, here are just some of the benefits of our system:
Foodservice Design/Construction
- Reduce construction costs
- Decrease design and construction times
- Relatable visualization
- Virtual facility modeling
- Error-free design documents
- Standards of care archiving
- Flexible future modifications
Operations/Enterprise
- Adherence to operating standards
- Facility labor and maintenance cost reductions
- Early facility occupancy – enhanced revenues
- Operating area(s) capacity maximization
- Enhanced staff training
Improved safety - Centralized data for BIM usage
- Global communication from Compass Group
- Dining facilities
- ADA-specific related renovations and remodeling methodologies
Better Nutrition Choices
We believe that food should not only taste great but also be great for your body. Our chefs and registered dietitian nutritionists focus on recipes and ingredients that are in-season, responsibly sourced, plant forward, FIT and loaded with functional foods.
