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January 27 Lunch and Learn - Restaurant Consultant/Equipment

Friday, January 27, 2012 from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM (ET)

Grand Rapids, MI

January 27 Lunch and Learn - Restaurant Consultant/Equipment

Ticket Information

Ticket Type Remaining Sales End Price Fee Quantity
AIAGV Members Only (Free) 9 tickets Ended $0.00 $0.00
Non-AIAGV Member ($15 by credit card) 9 tickets Ended $15.00 $1.82
Non-AIAGV Member ($15 paid in advance by check to AIA Grand Valley) 9 tickets Ended $0.00 $0.00
Student (Free) 9 tickets Ended $0.00 $0.00

Event Details

LUNCH AND LEARN                             Friday, January 27
                                                  11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
 
John Gruner of Gruner, Prussner and Lloyd Restaurant Solutions will present on his work as a restaurant consultant in the first hour of the January lunch and learn. John will explore how restaurant design incorporates many specialties and expertise that are combined to create a stage for food to be presented and consumed. John will make an analogy to theatre design in creating an ambiance for all the senses in order to have a successful restaurant.  Some topics that will be covered in this presentation include:  What expertise does a restaurant consultant bring to the table?  How does a restaurant consultant fit on the design team?  What problems can be resolved/avoided by a restaurant consultant.  At what point in the development of a restaurant should a restaurant consultant be brought into a project?

The 12:30 PM session will be Mark Proulx from Stafford Smith on restaurant equipment and layout.  Mark is from the Kalamazoo branch of Stafford Smith.  Topics to be covered include the following:  What makes an efficient commercial kitchen layout?  What should an architect know in order to work with a kitchen equipment specialist?  What can an architect look for in a restaurant equipment specialist to provide as part of their services?  What can be done to ensure future flexibility in a commercial kitchen to allow for changing equipment technology?  What are some of the changing regulations and technologies in the commercial equipment arena?


This lunch and learn is free to all current AIAGV members and students. Non-AIAGV members must pay $15 by check (make checks out to AIA Grand Valley and send to AIA Grand Valley, Attention: Deborah Dik, 10238 10 Mile Road, NE, Rockford, MI 49341) or by credit card at Eventbrite.

Two learning units will be available to attendees. Lunch will be provided. This lunch and learn will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Room 130 at FSU/GRCC Applied Technology Center, 151 Fountain Street, Grand Rapids, MI 49503. 

If you sign up for the event and cannot attend for any reason, please email Deborah Dik at deborahdik@yahoo.com or call 616-340-6200 so that we can cancel your lunch.

 

When & Where



FSU/GRCC Applied Technology Center
151 Fountain Street
Grand Rapids, MI 49503

Friday, January 27, 2012 from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM (ET)


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