Design & Build Services

Commercial Kitchen Design

RHQ designs commercial kitchens for restaurants, hotels, schools, ghost kitchens, breweries, and corporate and medical foodservice. Our in-house team plans the workflow, specs the equipment, engineers the ventilation, and fabricates the custom stainless, then installs it all. One team from the first sketch to a passed inspection, based in Garland, TX and shipping nationwide.

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Scope of Work

What Our Kitchen Design Covers

A commercial kitchen design from RHQ is a complete, build-ready package: the floor plan, the equipment schedule, the utility rough-in locations, and the shop drawings for every custom stainless piece. It’s the document set your contractor, your health department, and our own installers all build from. This page covers the kitchen itself; for the whole space, including dining room, bar, and front of house, see our restaurant design service.

Workflow & Layout Planning

Station-by-station flow from receiving to service, sized to your menu and volume so staff never cross paths carrying hot pans.

Equipment Specification

A line-item equipment schedule with models, dimensions, and utilities. We sell the equipment too, so specs match real availability and budget.

Ventilation & Hood Design

Hood sizing, capture area, and makeup air planned around your cook line, with custom hoods fabricated in our own shop.

Utility & MEP Coordination

Gas, electrical, water, and drain locations documented for your plumber and electrician before walls close up.

Code & Health Compliance

Plans drawn to health department, TDLR, and fire code requirements, so review comments don’t stall your buildout.

Custom Stainless Design

Worktables, counters, shelving, and hoods designed to the inch and built by our metal fabrication shop, not ordered off a catalog page.

Refrigeration Planning

Walk-ins, reach-ins, and prep refrigeration placed for workflow and compressor access, with capacity matched to your prep volume.

Shop & Permit Drawings

Dimensioned plans and elevations ready for permit submission and fabrication, one drawing set that everyone builds from.

Design-to-Install Continuity

The people who drew your kitchen deliver and set it. Nothing gets lost in a handoff because there isn’t one.

Layout Fundamentals

The Five Commercial Kitchen Layouts

Most commercial kitchen layouts follow one of five patterns: assembly line, island, zone, galley, or open. The right one depends on your menu, your volume, and the shape of your space. We usually blend two of them, then prove the flow on paper before anything gets ordered.

Assembly Line

Stations in a straight production sequence. The workhorse for high-volume, repeatable menus: pizza, fast casual, ghost kitchen delivery lines.

Island

Cooking equipment grouped on a central block with prep and storage on the perimeter. Strong for large kitchens where a chef supervises from the middle.

Zone

Separate stations for prep, cooking, plating, and warewashing. Suits varied menus and larger operations like hotels and cafeterias.

Galley

Two parallel runs with a working aisle between. The efficient answer for tight footprints, food trucks, and narrow lease spaces.

Open

The cook line faces the guest. Demands cleaner sightlines, quieter equipment, and hood work that looks as good as it performs.

Hybrid, In Practice

Real kitchens rarely fit one template. A ramen shop might run a galley cook line with a zone prep area behind it. We design to your menu, not to a diagram.

Who We Design For

Kitchens Across Every Foodservice Setting

Any operation that cooks at commercial scale needs the same fundamentals: sound workflow, correctly specified equipment, and a plan the inspector will approve. We’ve built our reputation on restaurants, including 1,000+ built since 1992, and we bring the same process to every foodservice space.

Restaurants

Bars & Breweries

Hotels & Hospitality

Ghost Kitchens & Commissaries

Schools & Universities

Corporate Cafeterias

Medical & Senior Living

Bakeries & Retail Food

How It Works

From First Walkthrough to Working Line

Our process keeps design, fabrication, and installation under one roof. There’s no handoff to a subcontractor at any stage, which is why our schedules hold and our tolerances do too.

Consult

We review your menu, volume, and space, on site in DFW or from your plans anywhere in the country.

Layout & Flow

We draft the floor plan around your workflow and walk you through it before anything is final.

Equipment & Utilities

Every piece gets specified with its gas, power, water, and ventilation needs documented.

In-House Fabrication

Custom stainless tables, counters, and hoods are built in our Garland shop to the drawings.

Install & Open

Our crew delivers, sets, and levels the kitchen, and stays until the line works the way it was drawn.

Get a Price

A Build-Ready Plan Starts With a Conversation

Tell us what you’re planning and we’ll put real numbers on the design work.

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Equipment

Specification Backed by a Real Dealer

Most kitchen designers spec equipment they’ve never sold. We’re a restaurant equipment dealer first, so every model on your schedule is something we can actually price, stock, and stand behind, with our Price-Match Guarantee on the equipment itself and financing options when you’d rather preserve cash for opening.

Refrigeration

Walk-in coolers and freezers, reach-ins, and refrigerated prep sized to your menu. Browse our commercial refrigeration equipment.

Cooking Equipment

Ranges, fryers, griddles, ovens, and specialty cooking lines specified with the utilities to match. Browse our cooking equipment for restaurants.

Because design and dealership sit in the same building, your equipment schedule reflects real lead times and real prices, not placeholder models a bidder swaps out later. See our Price-Match Guarantee and the full equipment and supplies store.

The In-House Difference

Why One Team Changes the Outcome

Most design firms draw the kitchen and leave you to source it. We fabricate the custom pieces ourselves, in the same Garland facility where the design was drawn, and install with our own crew. That changes four things you’ll feel on opening day.

Schedule Control

No waiting on a third-party fab shop’s queue. Design revisions move to the shop floor the same week.

Single Accountability

One phone number for design, equipment, stainless, and install. If something’s off, we fix it, no finger-pointing between vendors.

Built-to-the-Inch Fit

Custom worktables, counters, and hoods from our metal fabrication shop fill the space exactly, no dead gaps where catalog sizes almost fit.

Compliance Built In

Health department, TDLR, and ventilation requirements are designed in from the first draft, so inspection day confirms the plan instead of rewriting it.

Featured Work

Kitchens We’ve Designed and Built

Every project below ran through the same design-to-install process, from ground-up builds to remodels of working kitchens. See more on our work page.

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Common Questions

Commercial Kitchen Design FAQ

What does a commercial kitchen designer actually deliver?

A build-ready package: a dimensioned floor plan, an equipment schedule with utility requirements, ventilation and hood layout, and shop drawings for any custom stainless. It’s the document set your contractor builds from, your health department reviews, and our installers work to.

Which commercial kitchen layout is best?

There’s no single best layout. Assembly line suits high-volume repeatable menus, galley fits tight spaces, zone works for varied menus, island suits large kitchens with central supervision, and open layouts put the cook line on display. Most real kitchens blend two patterns, and the right mix comes from your menu and floor plate, not a template.

Do you handle health department and code requirements?

Yes. We design to health department, TDLR, and fire code requirements from the first draft, including hood sizing, makeup air, hand sink placement, and floor drain locations. Designing compliance in up front is far cheaper than fixing review comments after walls are closed.

Do you supply the kitchen equipment too?

Yes. RHQ is a restaurant equipment dealer, so the models on your schedule are ones we can price, stock, and deliver, backed by our Price-Match Guarantee on equipment. Financing is available if you’d rather preserve cash for opening.

Do you design kitchens outside Dallas–Fort Worth?

Yes. Design work travels well: we work from your plans and site measurements for projects anywhere in the country, and we ship equipment and custom stainless nationwide from our Garland, TX facility. DFW projects also get our own installation crew on site.

How is this different from your restaurant design service?

Commercial kitchen design covers the back of house: workflow, equipment, utilities, and ventilation. Our restaurant design service covers the entire space, including the dining room, bar, branding, and finishes. Many clients use both, with one team carrying the project from concept through opening.

Next Step

A Kitchen Plan Worth Building From

Send us your menu, your square footage, or just the address. We’ll tell you what the space can do and what it’ll take to get there, from the team that’s been designing and building commercial kitchens since 1992.

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Commercial Kitchen Design

What Our Kitchen Design Covers

Workflow & Layout Planning

Equipment Specification

Ventilation & Hood Design

Utility & MEP Coordination

Code & Health Compliance

Custom Stainless Design

Refrigeration Planning

Shop & Permit Drawings

Design-to-Install Continuity

The Five Commercial Kitchen Layouts

Assembly Line

Island

Zone

Galley

Open

Hybrid, In Practice

Kitchens Across Every Foodservice Setting

From First Walkthrough to Working Line

Consult

Layout & Flow

Equipment & Utilities

In-House Fabrication

Install & Open

Specification Backed by a Real Dealer

Refrigeration

Cooking Equipment

Why One Team Changes the Outcome

Schedule Control

Single Accountability

Built-to-the-Inch Fit

Compliance Built In

Kitchens We’ve Designed and Built

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