Hospitality spaces, designed around the way people are hosted.
Stadium boxes, bars, member areas and quick serve units. We design them, build them and furnish them, so the room your guests sit in is the room you signed off.
Hospitality is not one job, it is four different ones.
A stadium box, a bar, a member lounge and a quick serve unit look like the same brief and behave nothing like each other. A box has to work for twenty people for three hours, twenty times a season, and be sponsor branded without looking like a sponsor. A quick serve unit has to survive a Friday night and be repeatable across five sites. What they have in common is that the room is the product, and if it does not hold up under a full house it has failed whatever it looks like in a photograph.
We have delivered four separate projects inside Doncaster Rovers stadium: executive box refurbishments for Taylor Stevenson, Peak Mechanical and Signet, and the dug out seating. If you are opening a restaurant or a coffee shop, that is a different page and it has its own work on it.
From the first concept to the first full house.
Four things a hospitality project needs, and we do all four rather than handing you between three firms.
What the space is for, who is in it and what it should say about whoever is paying for it. On a sponsored box that means carrying a brand without the room turning into an advert for it.
Identity and brand · Signage and graphics · Material direction · Tone
Where people stand, where they sit, where the drinks come from and how twenty of them get to a window without queueing through each other. Capacity is a layout problem before it is a furniture problem.
Capacity and covers · Circulation · Service points · Sightlines
Photorealistic visuals so the room can be walked before anybody builds it, then the drawings and specification the trades price from. On a stadium that matters, because the window to do the work is between seasons.
Concept design · 3D visualisation · Technical drawings · Specification
We contract the trades and hand you one invoice, then specify and install the furniture: seating, tables, bar stools, banquettes and the lighting over them. Hospitality furniture takes a beating, and it is specified on that basis.
Fit out and joinery · Lighting · Furniture supply · Install
Most hospitality work has a date it has to be finished by.
A box has to be ready for the first home game. A unit has to open on the day the lease says it opens. That is a harder constraint than a budget, because a budget can flex and a fixture list cannot. We price and programme hospitality projects against the date first and work backwards, and we tell you early if the date and the scope do not agree rather than at the point it is too late to do anything about it.
If you are opening somewhere to eat, that is a different page.
Restaurants, cafes, coffee shops and bakeries have their own brief and their own work: a Mexican restaurant and takeaway in Sheffield, a coffee shop on the edge of the city, a bakery in Doncaster and German Doner Kebab across five sites. They sit on our restaurant and eatery page rather than here.
Frequently asked questions about hospitality design.
Have you actually done stadium hospitality?
Four times, all at Doncaster Rovers: executive box refurbishments for Taylor Stevenson, Peak Mechanical and Signet, and the dug out seating. All four are published with photographs.
Can you work between seasons or overnight?
Yes, and on stadium work it is usually the only way. The programme is written around the date the space has to be back in use, and we say early if the scope and the date do not agree.
Do you do bars, hotels and member areas?
We have not published a hotel, and we would rather say that than imply otherwise. Bars, member areas and lounges are the same job as a hospitality box: capacity, flow, durability and a room that carries a brand. We are happy to talk about one and to be straight about what we have and have not done before.
Do you supply the furniture?
Yes, specified against the drawings rather than picked at the end. Hospitality furniture takes far more punishment than office furniture, so it is specified for that and not for a showroom.
Commercial hospitality designers in Doncaster, working across Yorkshire.
From Doncaster we work with stadiums, bars, quick serve brands and leisure operators across South Yorkshire and further out, including a national roll out across five sites from Norwich to Cobham.
Got a date it has to be ready by?
Tell us the space and the deadline. The first conversation is free and we will say straight away whether the two agree.
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