How much does bar design cost?
If you're a bar, hotel or restaurant owner in need
of bar design, where do you go to find this information?
I have the answers for you right here in this video. Coming up!
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Which of these two bars do you think would be more expensive to design?
The answer is probably pretty obvious.
How about these two bars? The answer may not be so
obvious. There are many factors that differentiate the cost to design any
given bar. My goal in this video is to explain general pricing guidelines for
professional bar design.
Specific examples people bring to us have great
deal of variation, so the practical approach here is to provide you with
starting price points.
We offer three types of bar design services and a host
of optional features. The first service is "Bar Consulting," the second one is
"Bar Equipment Design" and the third is "Custom Bar Design." This pretty much
handles any call that comes into our office.
If you need assistance for planning a new bar and you're
trying to do it yourself, but you're stuck on a few
things, our "Bar Consulting" service is pretty much ideal for you.
With this service we offer a variety of things, which range from basic bar layout, shown
here, draft beer system planning, where we will help you locate your draft beer
towers, decide where the walk-in coolers go - that type of thing.
Next we can help you complete your unfinished bar plan
We also provide dining seating plans for people who are
looking for correct table placements, and lastly, we
we also provide budgeting for new bars
with basic food service.
These are for the do-it-yourselfer and those who are seeking primary information for
purchasing or starting a bar or restaurant.
Pricing for these services begins at $250.
Next, we have our "Bar Equipment Design" service.
This is a service that's geared for the do-it-yourselfer
crowd that wants to finish their own bar and is in need of some expertise to help
them complete their 2D aspect of their bar layout -
that is everything from the bar top down.
The first thing we would provide would be an
ergonomically-efficient bar equipment layout.
Next, to fine-tune the bar layout with
recommendations for the POS equipment and draft beer towers. Next, we would have
the bar equipment schedule.
We would also provide plans for construction of the
bar base, including section views
and we would also provide details for one
ADA built-in accommodation.
Lastly, we would also solicit pricing for the equipment.
With the bar equipment design service,
we'll furnish you with an architectural plan in PDF.
Pricing begins at $3500 for a standard
2-station L-shaped, C-shaped or shotgun bar; island bars are extra, and we also have a host of other features
that you can purchase ala carte, which I'll discuss later.
Next, we have our "Custom Bar Design" service.
This service takes our standard bar equipment design
vertically and provides you with a full
bar design and offers the following features:
1). A concept for a 2-station L-shaped, C-shaped
or shotgun bar; next, a set of plans for construction,
including section views, elevations and details;
next, one built-in ADA accommodation;
next, develop the bar facade.
We also provide the footrest design.
We also provide you with a simple back bar plan,
with the TV equipment recommendations and locations;
next, we have the bar top plan.
We also provide you with a bar framing plan for
stick-built bars. We also provide the
bar equipment plan itself, all the
construction details.
Next, we provide the draft beer system design,
with beer tower locations.
Next, full equipment schedule and manufacturer's specification sheets.
Next, we provide pricing for the bar equipment and lastly we provide pricing
for the draft beer system with installation.
Pricing for custom bar design begins at US$5,500
for a standard 2-station bar without draft
beer or US$7,000 with draft beer; island bars are extra.
Next, we have a host of custom bar design options
which are oftentimes features that owners request
that are not commonly included in our standard packages and there's a host of
things that come up from time to time and all this kind of run down the list
here because most of the applications don't include these items, but there are
times when they are needed.
The first item is a modular bar die.
These are manufactured bars that require a series of
removable panels - the panels are what we would
design, along with the schedule of sizes and locations.
Next, we have curved, oval and circular bars,
which require yet another level of detail,
that's not commonly included
with our standard bar design packages.
Next, we have backlit bar designs,
which are shown here in these photos.
Also, we can provide built-in USB phone chargers,
shown in this photo; this is a very popular feature nowadays.
Next, we have counterbalanced lift gates, which
require a minimal amount of assistance to lift
and are particularly valuable in situations where using
solid surface bar tops.
Next, we have built-in soda systems,
which is self-explanatory.
These can be actually designed into the bar area
under certain circumstances.
Also, we can provide you with roll-up
secured liquor cages, which are commonly
seen in hotel and airport bars;
it enables the liquor to be locked at night.
Next, we have built-in TV's for soffits,
where the TV's themselves are set into
the soffit above the back bar and it's a standard detail
that's required by Starwood Hotels.
We also offer custom soffit design, as shown here
on these plans.
Next, we have draft beer walls,
which require an additional amount of
architectural detail, as I covered
in an earlier video,
and we also provide custom back bars fabricated from
steel, architectural metal and architectural glass,
just to name a few and in those cases
the structural engineering and so forth would be
provided by others.
Pricing for each of the above features begins at
US$500 and depends on the amount of
time and complexity.
The possibilities are virtually endless.
If you'd like to know more about bar equipment costs,
bar construction costs, draft beer systems - that type of thing, then you need to
check-out this video series on start-up costs for opening a bar or restaurant.
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