Collaborating with You to Bring Your Commercial Kitchen Vision to Life
At Canadian Restaurant Supply, we believe that a successful commercial kitchen design is all about collaboration. That's why we work closely with our clients to gain a deep understanding of their individual needs and goals.
Design Process
Intake Meeting
From the menu to the customer base to the logistics of your space, we take the time to get to know your business inside and out. We believe that this attention to detail is what sets us apart from other design firms and enables us to create truly customized solutions that meet your unique needs.
Detailed Plan
During this phase, we'll provide detailed floor plans based on an approved plan, all done in AutoCAD. We'll review equipment with you and our design team to ensure everything is in the right place and develop a detailed equipment schedule with all utility requirements. Once we have a detailed plan in place, we'll develop elevations, sections, and rough-in drawings for mechanical and electrical connections..
Post Construction
We'll start with a thorough walkthrough to ensure that all aspects of the installation meet your expectations. We'll test all equipment to make sure it's working perfectly, and if needed, we can provide equipment training to your team.
But our commitment to your success doesn't stop there. We'll also provide you and your operations team with a list of contacts for all service and warranty calls, ensuring that you have the support you need whenever you need it.
Preliminary Design
Once we have a clear understanding of your requirements, we'll provide a blocking plan for review and approval. This will help you to visualize the layout of your kitchen and ensure that everything is in the right place.
Project Management
Our experienced project managers will kick into high gear, ensuring that all equipment and supplies arrive on site and on time. These superheroes will link every piece together, freeing you up for more important tasks. During the on-site review of mechanical and electrical rough-ins, our project managers will ensure that everything meets specifications. They'll work closely with your team to ensure that your commercial kitchen is fully equipped and ready to go on opening day.
Grand Opening
Congratulations on your grand opening! We're thrilled to have been a part of bringing your custom-designed kitchen to life.
We understand the importance of having a commercial kitchen that caters to your specific requirements and sets you up for success.
INDUSTRIES SERVED
Restaurants
We know restaurants inside and out—but especially inside. From quick service to fine dining, every eatery has different needs, budgets and visions.
Whether it’s a franchise that requires kitchen equipment to be consistent across the country or a chef/owner changing the game and requiring innovative solutions, CRS has the decades of experience and creativity to bring your restaurant to the people.
Our restaurant kitchen designers work with you for the ultimate in streamlined service—no matter the scale.
Commercial Kitchens
Running a commercial kitchen means being able to manage your kitchen equipment in the right space to accommodate a wide range of demands.
Whether you need to nail your hospital kitchen design or production kitchen layout, our design team works to incorporate all your commercial kitchen needs, drawing on their diverse experience in the industry to check all the boxes so you can get the job done right.
Care Homes
Safety first is the name of the game for all kitchen designs, especially when it comes to care homes.
Having worked on numerous retirement facilities, CRS is experienced in getting the best kitchen equipment to make safety monitoring and reporting simple while incorporating guest and staff needs in the commercial kitchen layout.
Keep safety, nutrition and service top of mind when designing your next care home kitchen.
Design & Supply Projects
Membership Club
CLUB VERSANTE
Club Versante is an upscale membership-based club that facilitates exceptional culinary and leisurely experiences. As of 2023, CRS has completed four restaurant kitchens and 7 kitchen designs. The fifth kitchen is opening this year, and the other kitchens will open next year. The project started in 2017 and has had 5 different executive chefs CRS had to remain agile and creative in order to meet the needs of each restaurant.
Care home
SUMMERWOOD RETIREMENT RESIDENCE
CRS has built six Summerwood retirement locations. Whenever working with a care home, CRS needs to focus on the resident dynamic, like how many rooms the home holds or kitchen size.
Restaurant
EDO JAPAN
CRS has built over 100 of Edo Japan’s locations.
The design of each location must follow the brand standards and utilize the required equipment.
When supply chain issues struck globally, CRS’s restaurant kitchen designers worked closely with the operations team at Edo to simplify the design.
Restaurant
PENTICTON LAKESIDE RESORT
This resort currently has two restaurants and one banquet kitchen, with a pub soon to come.
Foodservice in the Okanagan can, understandably, get hot.
Understanding the unique challenges of the climate in Penticton coupled with industry know-how, CRS was able to provide an innovative commercial kitchen equipment solution to a burning problem: heat.
WHAT CUSTOMERS SAY
FAQs
Project timelines depend entirely on scope. A straightforward renovation may take 3 to 6 months, a typical new restaurant build often runs 9 to 18 months, and large multi-unit rollouts, care home facilities, and complex ground-up projects can take up to two years from intake meeting to grand opening. After our intake meeting, we provide a project-specific timeline so you can plan around equipment lead times, contractor schedules, and your target opening date.
Our process has six phases: (1) Intake Meeting to understand your menu, customer base, and space; (2) Preliminary Design with a blocking plan for your review; (3) Detailed Plan including AutoCAD floor plans, equipment schedules, and rough-in drawings for mechanical and electrical connections; (4) Project Management to coordinate equipment delivery and on-site review; (5) Post-Construction walkthrough, equipment testing, and staff training; and (6) Grand Opening, with ongoing service and warranty support afterward.
Design fees depend on the scope, square footage, and complexity of your project, and they're usually quoted as a flat fee or as a percentage of the total equipment package. The best way to get an accurate number is to book a consultation. We'll discuss your concept, location, and budget, then provide a project proposal that breaks out design, equipment, project management, and installation.
We design kitchens for restaurants (quick-service, casual, and fine dining), hotels and resorts, care homes and retirement residences, hospitals and institutional foodservice, food trucks, banquet kitchens, production kitchens, and franchise rollouts. Our project portfolio includes Edo Japan (over 100 locations), Club Versante, Summerwood Retirement Residence, and Penticton Lakeside Resort.
No. We can get involved at any stage. The earlier we're brought in, ideally before you sign a lease or finalize architectural drawings, the more we can do to flag issues like ventilation requirements, utility capacity, ceiling heights, and grease trap placement that often become expensive problems later. Many of our clients book an early consultation to evaluate whether a space will actually work for their menu and volume.
Yes. All of our detailed floor plans, elevations, sections, and rough-in drawings for mechanical and electrical connections are produced in AutoCAD, and we share them directly with your architect, general contractor, and trades so everyone is working from the same set of plans.
We handle both. Our project managers coordinate the delivery and installation of all foodservice equipment, conduct on-site reviews of mechanical and electrical rough-ins, and perform a final walkthrough with equipment testing before opening. We also provide your operations team with a full contact list for ongoing service and warranty calls.
We provide every client with a contact list for service and warranty calls on every piece of equipment we supply. For service work in our region, our partner company RAM Tech HVAC (formerly CRS Tomnor) handles commercial kitchen equipment service and can be reached at 778-484-8975. For parts, our team can source replacements from our parts suppliers using your equipment's make, model, and serial number.
We design and supply as a package because it lets us guarantee the equipment fits the plan, the utility specs match the rough-ins, and timelines line up with construction. That said, we'll talk through your situation in the consultation. We've designed for clients with national franchise programs that mandate certain vendors, and we can usually find a workable arrangement
Both. We work on new builds, full renovations, partial upgrades, and equipment replacements. For BC operators, we can also help identify rebates and energy-efficiency incentives, including FortisBC programs that can offset the cost of upgrading to higher-efficiency equipment.