Restaurant design at RHQ covers the whole space: concept, dining room, bar, kitchen coordination, custom millwork, stainless fabrication, permits, and construction. One Dallas–Fort Worth team handles all of it in-house, so your budget, schedule, and accountability sit in one place. We’ve built more than 1,000 restaurants since 1992, and we’ll walk you from first sketch to opening night.
A restaurant design-build project with RHQ includes everything between the lease signing and the first ticket. Each piece below is produced or managed by our own team, most of it inside our Garland facility.
Floor plans that balance seat count, service flow, and code clearances before any money goes into construction.
Seating layouts, finishes, lighting direction, and host and wait stations planned around how your service actually runs.
Underbar equipment layout, drink rail spacing, back-bar display, and draft runs designed for speed behind the rail.
We plan the back of house alongside the front so lines, hoods, and utilities land where they should. For kitchen-specific workflow and equipment design, see our commercial kitchen design service.
Bars, host stands, banquettes, and wall treatments built in our own millwork shop, sized to your plans instead of forced around catalog stock.
Worktables, hoods, shelving, and counters in 16-gauge 304 stainless, fabricated in-house by our metal fabrication team.
Drawings prepared for city permitting and health-department review, with our team guiding the submittals.
Build-out managed under one contract with one point of accountability, on a schedule anchored to your opening date.
Equipment and supplies procured through our own store, installed, and walked through before you open.
Whole-space restaurant design means nothing gets handed off. The same drawings govern the dining room, the bar, and the kitchen, so the finishes meet cleanly and the flow works from door to pass.
Seat counts, table mix, traffic aisles, and ADA clearances resolved on paper first.
Front bar, back bar, and underbar planned as one working station, not a piece of furniture.
Line layout and utilities coordinated with our kitchen design team so BOH and FOH drawings never conflict.
Outdoor seating, signage, and facade work that carries the concept past the front door.
Code-driven spaces planned early so they never steal square footage from revenue seating.
Dry storage, walk-in placement, and office space located where receiving and prep make sense.
The process runs through one team from start to finish. No general contractor marking up subs, no designer handing drawings to a builder who’s never seen your space.
Free design consultation. We review your space, concept, and budget, then lock scope upfront.
Floor plans, elevations, and permit-ready drawings for the full space, FOH and BOH together.
Millwork and stainless built in our Garland shop while permits move through the city.
Construction under one contract, one point of accountability, on a schedule anchored to opening day.
Equipment set, health-department walkthrough, final punch list, and keys back to you.
Because fabrication happens in our own shop, we control the materials that go into your space. These are the standards our work leaves the building with.
Our shop builds while permits process. There’s no waiting on a sub’s backlog, so timelines hold.
Design, fabrication, and construction sit under one agreement. When something needs fixing, there’s one phone number.
The people who drew the bar also build it, so the millwork, stainless, and site conditions actually line up.
Thirty-plus years of Dallas–Fort Worth permitting and health-department reviews baked into the drawings from day one.
A few of the 1,000+ restaurants we’ve designed and built across Dallas–Fort Worth. See the full portfolio at our work.
See All ProjectsKitchen-specific workflow, line layout, and equipment planning. This page covers the whole space; that one goes deep on the back of house.
Bars, casework, and architectural woodwork from our shop, for restaurants and any other commercial space.
Stainless tables, hoods, counters, and shelving fabricated to your drawings in Garland.
Browse all of our design and fabrication services, or ask about equipment financing for your build.
Cost depends on square footage, kitchen scope, and finish level, so we price each project from a locked scope rather than a rate sheet. Your free consultation ends with a defined scope and budget upfront, before construction starts, and financing is available for the equipment portion.
Most build-outs run a few months from signed scope to opening, driven mainly by permitting time and the condition of the space. Because our shop fabricates millwork and stainless while permits process, our schedule is anchored to your opening date instead of stacking phases end to end.
Yes. We prepare permit-ready drawings and guide the submittals through the city and health department. Thirty-plus years of Dallas–Fort Worth projects means the code requirements are built into the plans from the first draft, not patched in after a failed review.
Both. This service covers the whole space: dining room, bar, kitchen, restrooms, patio, and exterior, all on one coordinated set of drawings. If you only need back-of-house workflow and equipment planning, our commercial kitchen design service handles that on its own.
Yes. Custom millwork and stainless fabrication happen in our own facility at 1501 S Jupiter Rd in Garland, TX, by the same team that drew your plans. One team, zero subcontractors, which is how the schedule and the tolerances stay under our control.
We do both. RHQ runs its own restaurant equipment and supplies store, so procurement, delivery, and installation fold into the same project instead of a separate vendor. Equipment ships nationwide from Dallas–Fort Worth, and it’s covered by our Price-Match Guarantee.
Tell us about your space and your concept. We’ll set up a free design consultation at our Garland showroom or on your site, and you’ll leave with a clear scope and budget.
Send the details and a specialist will reply with pricing, typically within one business day. Or call (972) 487-8888.
Same in-stock item at another authorized U.S. dealer and we match it before you order.
Your quote is with our team. Expect a reply within one business day.