4 Game Changer Services of Chef’s Deal: Consulting, Design, Layout, and Financing

Establishing a food business and growing or renewing it due to changing trends is challenging. Many issues need to be considered while in operation. Choosing a location for your restaurant, establishing the place, designing and creating menus, purchasing the most efficient commercial restaurant equipment, managing logistics, and creating an equipment layout while following a plan and staying within a budget are challenging. Here, Chef’s Deal comes into play when your questions increase.

We collect these issues under consulting, design, layout, and financing headings to offer the best service for your business. In this competitive food business world, getting professional help is crucial to staying one step ahead of your competitors in the food service industry.

Since 2003, based in  Nashville, Tennessee, we have provided food service solutions to hotels, restaurants, bars, institutions, schools, country clubs, grocery, and convenience stores for contractors, consultants, architects, hospitality groups, and other customers. As a part of Pride Centric Resource Buying Group, we have more than 200 manufacturer partners, and we serve with our significant buying and transfer power for our clients. But our service is not limited to this only. We provide our customers with exceptional free consulting, design, and layout services, and we also make it easy to establish, redesign, or grow your business with our finance partners.

Consulting

You can have the budget and talent but no business experience, or you may want to expand your business to a new area, cook meals from a different cuisine, or change your restaurant. Then you may need professional fresh eyes and consultation for your business.

• You can cook delicious dishes, but that may not be enough to succeed in the food business because business management is different from cooking and requires field experience and business skills. If you have the right consultancy by your side, you can solve problems more easily and quickly.

• Expanding your business has many risks since every place has its own challenges. However, with a good consultation, you can profit in many ways, such as by purchasing the right equipment.

• Different cuisines require different restaurant equipment. An expert can help you choose the most suitable and affordable commercial kitchen equipment from many choices.

With over 90 years of combined market and field–experienced staff, Chef’s Deal offers free consulting services to increase your business efficiency. We take care of your business as our own and care about every detail. We prepare an action plan and balance your wants with your needs. Our free consultation covers:

• Equipment Selection: We analyze commercial restaurant equipment needs based to your budget, menu, location, and possible incentives that you may get
• Increasing Function and Efficiency By Menu Engineering And Space Optimization
• Layout
• Equipment Training For Staff
• Budgeting
• Logistic Planning
• Demand/Capacity Planning
• Maintenance (Equipment Maintenance, Usage of Filtration Systems)
• Food Safety
• Storage Management and Shelving
• Complying With Local Codes

Design: Show us Your Food Service Space, Chef’s Deal Design it For You

Restaurant designs change due to local and global trends or health concerns, and constant innovation is also required for any establishment to be profitable. We keep tracking these trends and concerns and support our clients with our experience.

Even though ingredients, foods, and equipment are similar, every restaurant, bar, and kitchen is unique, and so are Chef’s Deal’s solutions. The field-experienced CAD staff of Chef’s Deal, who knows the industry well, enables your restaurant to reflect your vision and dream concept with all details with their 2D and 3D drawings and plans.

Our unique design plans begin with logistics and inventory and continue with food entry points, storage, preparation, cooking, and delivery. Workflow, energy-saving, and safety are the main issues, and the critical point is properly planning the back of the house that affects the front of the house. Furthermore, along with the rising trends, customers want flexible and fast service in more comfortable dining spaces.

Our project-based, environment and customer-focused design service includes:

• Concept Design
• Electric, Gas Connections, Fire Suppression Solutions
• Waste Handling Solutions
• Mechanical, Electrical, And Plumbing (MEP) Coordination
• Plan and Design Documents
• Cost Estimate
• Equipment Planning
• Space Planning
• Employee Break Room Design

Layout

Your restaurant and kitchen layout shows your proficiency in the foodservice business and determines your flow in the restaurant. Labor efficiency, workflow, energy efficiency, and ergonomy of all storage, food preparation, cooking, cleaning/washing stations, and service area design are critical issues that must be handled. Other layout considerations include your menu, flexibility, modularity, sanitation, back-of-house supervising, staff communication, and air ventilation. While arranging all these, keeping the restaurant design and layout simple for staff to handle and navigate is crucial. As a result, all equipment and materials should be settled in a pattern for a successful business. 

Popular layout types can be applied directly or adapted to your place, or your space can be planned uniquely due to the place’s shape, size, capacity, and service type. A successful and strategic layout is essential for kitchen/restaurant safety, and the professional staff of Chef’s Deal is ready to help by sharing their experience.

Financing

Your restaurant, bar, food truck, or coffee shop will pay you back when it functions efficiently. However, managing cash flow when establishing a business or investing in an existing restaurant/bar is challenging. Choosing the right restaurant equipment enables this process to occur quickly. Restaurant equipment financing improves your cash flow by providing affordable monthly payments while using the restaurant equipment. Our financing institution partners, lenders, and financing specialists offer secure, flexible funding choices with the best payment terms for you.

Why should you apply for financing? Because of financing,

• Improves your cash flow.
• Manages your budget.
• Preserves your credit lines.
• Saves your cash reserves.
• Enables you to deduct the money you spend on restaurant equipment. (tax benefits)
• Is easier than getting a bank loan.

Who can apply for financing:

• Startup business
• Established business
• Low credit scores
• High credit scores
• Small or Medium Business

Conclusion: Why Should You Choose Chef’s Deal Services?

Experience: Chef’s Deal has over 90 years of combined market field experience in commercial restaurant equipment. We know the inner workings of the restaurants and kitchens; we see the equipment, keep track of the food business trends, understand the clients, and do our job passionately and successfully. Finally, we guide you toward your goals and dreams.

A Committed Technical Staff: Chef’s Deal’s highly skilled staff do their job passionately. Teamwork makes all processes more manageable than having individuals make them separately.

New Trends: We follow the latest trends and adapt quickly to our business due to market conditions.

Complying With Local Codes: We help with local codes, provide highly valued service, and save you time and money. We help our customers comply with local and state health, fire, and food service business regulations when establishing businesses and equipment.

Equipment Installation: We don’t just supply you with the equipment but also help you successfully install it.

Employee Training for Equipment Use: We help you train your staff to use your equipment more efficiently.

You can complete the online form, send an email, write to the chatbox, or call us to explain what you need. Then, the related department of Chef’s Deal will reach out to you and provide an efficient, energy-saving, eco-friendly, and profit-focused consultancy, design, layout, and financing plan for you.