Facility Design Project of the Month

Each month, FE&S spotlights a project worth talking about, with in-depth coverage from concept through completion including a kitchen equipment floor plan.

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Founded in 1985 as the Chicken Ranch Bingo Palace, this bingo hall became a casino when slot machines were added in 2000.

Virginia Tech (VT) has some lofty enrollment goals. Five years ago, the university president, Tim Sands, set a goal of increasing enrollment by 5,000 students. If the campus population was going to grow, so too would the dining solutions. The result: Perry Place at Hitt Hall, a new 100,000-square-foot building.

Dawn Manor attracts guests looking to experience history in a unique setting.

Sharples Dining Hall, built in 1964, became too small to comfortably accommodate the growing student body at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Penn. The leadership team wanted a solution to build community, enhance the dining experience for students, faculty and staff, and support Swarthmore’s vision of achieving carbon neutrality by 2035.

The Eatery, the largest dining facility on the University of Pittsburgh campus, needed a major overhaul to attract a higher volume of today’s food-savvy guests.

Aberdeen Ridge, a PMMA (Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America) community, is a not-for-profit life plan community serving Colorado Springs, Colo. Located on 15 acres of land near renowned Colorado attractions Pikes Peak and Garden of the Gods, Aberdeen Ridge offers residences for seniors opting for independent living, assisted living and memory care.

A pre-K-12 school boasting a 100% college acceptance rate, Lamar School in Meridian, Miss., needed a new dining operation to support its growing enrollment. The original cafeteria and kitchen were built in the 1990s to serve 400 students and faculty. The student body has grown to 658 students, and the staff totals more than 90.

Nestled in downtown Aspen, Colo., the 68-room luxury boutique hotel MOLLIE Aspen offers guests a chic, yet comfortable, experience in this mountain town.

When Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland & Northwest Indiana (RMHC-CNI), opened a site on Grand Avenue in Chicago in 2012, it provided accommodations for up to 66 families who stayed at the facility while their children received care at nearby Lurie Children’s Hospital or other pediatric facilities in the city.

Through a renovation and expansion of the Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma, the nonprofit’s leadership team set out to expand its efforts to fight hunger in 24 counties in Oklahoma. One in six Oklahomans is food insecure, according to the food bank. The need for food in this part of the state was significant, as was the need for an efficient way to feed people. 

Central Market Place at Oklahoma State University (OSU) offers a collection of diverse dining experiences to this Stillwater, Okla., campus with an enrollment of 18,930 undergrads and 4,740 graduate students. It replaces Kerr-Drummond Complex as the main dining operation on the west side of campus near residence halls.

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital (LGH) in Pennsylvania, part of the Penn Medicine health system, radically transformed its foodservice.

Chartered on May 21, 1882, Capital City Club (CCC) in Atlanta is one of the oldest private social clubs in the South.

It had been 20 years since a new high school was built in Lincoln, Neb., so when Lincoln Public Schools’ (LPS) student enrollment grew 18% from 2010 to 2020, it became necessary to build two new high schools on the outskirts of the city.