Fit-out
Restaurant and bar fit-out
Commercial kitchens, servery joinery and front of house, delivered to a launch date that has already been published.
We understand that no two restaurants or bars are the same, and we focus on delivering one-to-one, high quality service on each one. JPS has delivered three sites for Gordon Ramsay Restaurants - Liverpool, Ealing Broadway and Reading - covering the full envelope from commercial kitchen installation through to the last piece of loose furniture, and we work for large scale bar operators and independents alike.
Hospitality programmes are unusually unforgiving. The opening date is normally fixed before the contractor is appointed, staff are recruited against it, and bookings open against it. We sequence the works backwards from that date, front-load the long-lead kitchen and MEP items, and hold the finishing trades to a snagging standard that lets the operator trade on day one.
A bar lives or dies on its servery. Drainage, ice, glass wash, speed rails and till positions are all resolved before the finish is chosen, because a beautiful bar that slows the staff down costs the operator money every night it trades. We build the bar itself as bespoke joinery, integrate the lighting and AV into it, and coordinate the MEP that sits behind it. Where a site sits beneath residential units, acoustic separation and extract routing are resolved before any finish is specified.
What this normally includes.
The packages that make up a restaurants & bars fit-out, most of them delivered by our own trades and all of them under one project manager.
- Commercial kitchen installation
- Bespoke bar, back-bar and servery joinery
- Cellar, drainage and line routing
- Extract, ventilation and full MEP packages
- Integrated lighting and AV
- Acoustic floor and ceiling build-ups
- Banquette, booth and fixed seating manufacture
- Back of house, cold rooms and preparation areas
- Glazing, partitioning and ceilings
- Decoration and final finishes
How the job runs.
Front-load the kitchen and the servery
Extract routes, gas, drainage, cold rooms and cellar cooling are the items that decide the programme. They are surveyed, ordered and installed first, so the fit-out of the room happens around a kitchen and a bar that already work.
Build front of house as joinery
Bars, back-bars, banquettes, host stands and servery counters are made off site and integrated with the lighting, AV and speed rails before they arrive, which keeps the trades off each other in a room that is usually not large.
Open on the published date
Bookings open against the launch date before we are appointed, and staff are recruited against it. Everything is sequenced so the operator trades on the first night, with everything cold that should be cold and the snagging standard set to that, not to a defects period.
“Their project team work well to find solutions to problems and always seek to overcome any challenges thrown at them. As a project manager, I value this type of relationship with a main contractor.”
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Restaurants & bars projects.
Restaurants & bars work delivered by JPS - each one with its own page and photographs.
Other fit-out sectors.
Retail
From shopping centre flagships to independent boutiques, we fit out stores that have to open on the date the marketing team already announced.
Offices
Reception, breakout and workplace fit-out, usually delivered while the floors around us stay occupied.
Public sector
Education, healthcare and public buildings, where compliance is the specification rather than a box to tick.
Tendering something awkward?
Occupied buildings, fixed trading dates, listed structures and phased handovers are the normal condition here. Tell us the constraint and we will tell you how we would work around it.