Café Design Consultants

At its heart, a coffee shop or café is a specialized Quick Service Restaurant (QSR), and Rapids Contract offers decades of experience designing cozy cafés with efficient QSR kitchens to turn orders quickly. Today’s baristas can enjoy convenient access to the espresso machine, the multitudes of refrigerated beverage ingredients, and ice, and they can maintain good communication with servers and customers. Meanwhile, customers will queue up every day in your inviting café, tempted by enticing food displays to add a pastry or sandwich to their order.

Café Kitchen and Beverage Equipment

With the right kitchen equipment and efficient design, you can turn orders faster, improving the customer experience and turning more tickets. Optimize the productivity of your staff with proper placement of refrigerators, espresso machines, pastry ovens, ingredient tables, food displays, and sandwich prep counters. Plus, you can highlight pastry and retail items with tempting merchandise shelving.

Purchase from Rapids for full service, from staging to delivery to installation in your café. Or check out our online store of foodservice smallwares and equipment.

Expert Coffee Shop Design

A good customer experience begins and ends with great café design. Rapids Contract’s experience creating efficient flow as well as customer-friendly dining areas brings value to your café design. We help you develop a convenient queue that leads people past tempting pastry displays and retail shelving while they wait to place their order at the point of sale. Service windows and drive-through areas also become part of the overall customer experience. We ensure ease of use for customers as well as staff, and we can ensure your brand has presence throughout the café.

Energy Efficiency in Café Equipment and Design

The more energy you save, the more money you can make. A focus on energy-efficient design and equipment saves money by reducing energy costs and potentially qualifying your business for rebates and tax credits. LEED-certified design from Rapids Contract enables you to lower your café’s carbon footprint and raise environmental awareness. Reap the long-term rewards of choosing energy efficient equipment, technology, and lighting for your coffee shop and café.

Optimize Small Café Design

Get the most out of the smallest coffee shop or café with expert café design. We can help you create the most efficient workspace for baristas and develop clear paths for customer flow. Increase ease in your cookline and serve line by optimizing your small café space.

Project Spotlight: Empire Coffee and Pastry

Watch the video below to learn more about one of our previous café projects.