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Zone architecture
Receiving → dry store → cold chain → preparation (fish/meat/veg separated) → hot kitchen → bakery where scoped → pass → dishwash/pot-wash → waste: the full flow, sized to the menu.
Development service · the design workstream
A kitchen is a food-safety diagram you can stand in.
HACCP is not a certificate bolted on at opening — it is the geometry of the kitchen itself: receiving, storage, preparation, cooking, pass, wash and waste arranged so contamination has no shortcut and labour has no wasted steps. GGB plans kitchens as that diagram, then coordinates the engineering that builds it.
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By P. Dayaparan, founder of GGB Consulting: 28+ years in hospitality leadership, PMP. Updated .
The risk of a kitchen drawn as leftover space
When the kitchen is what remained after the dining room was drawn, the venue inherits crossing flows, under-sized extraction, chillers beside fryers, and a HACCP audit that becomes an annual improvisation. Rework after tiling costs multiples; rework after opening costs customers.
- Raw and ready-to-eat flows crossing at a single corridor
- Extraction and make-up air designed after the menu, then under it
- Grease management retro-fitted under enforcement pressure
- Equipment schedules priced twice because zones moved
GGB development framework position on the Restaurant Genesis system
Exact deliverables5 items · scoped per project
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Contamination-flow discipline
Personnel, product and waste routes drawn so the HACCP plan describes the building, not fights it.
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Equipment schedule & BOQ discipline
The kitchen equipment schedule written as a priceable, testable document — installation, testing, training and MEP interfaces included.
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MEP coordination brief
Restaurant kitchen MEP requirements — power, water, drainage, gas, extraction and fire suppression — written for the licensed engineers before design freeze.
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Authority-readiness pack
The kitchen documented the way food-safety authorities inspect it.
Who does whatregulated work stays with the licensed
GGB delivers
- Zone architecture and flow discipline
- Equipment scheduling and BOQ standards
- MEP requirement definition and owner-side coordination
- Authority-readiness documentation
You decide
- Menu and capacity decisions
- Capital approvals
Licensed professionals & authorities
- Statutory design and engineering drawings by licensed professionals
- Food-safety certification decisions by the authorities
- Fire and life-safety approvals via the licensed channels
Why the split matters — five specialists, one disconnection: what one mandate integrates
The methodsequence and control — dates are scoped per project, never promised here
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Menu decides the machine
Zones and equipment are sized from the menu and volume model — never from a template.
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Flows before walls
Product, personnel and waste routes fixed before partitions are drawn.
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Engineering as one package
MEP requirements issued together so no discipline designs against another.
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Inspect on paper first
The authority walkthrough rehearsed in the drawings before it happens in the building.
The proofregister-traced — never a stock claim
The evidence is a working framework and held primary records:
Flow summary: goods arrive at receiving, pass through dry store and the cold chain, split into separated fish, meat and vegetable preparation streams, converge on the hot kitchen and bakery, cross the pass into service — while used ware returns on a single one-way loop through dishwash and pot wash, never crossing the clean streams. The dashed separation line between raw preparation streams marks where cross-contamination is designed out. Power, gas, exhaust, drainage and suppression interfaces are coordinated at each zone.
The records behind this service
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Arya Bhavan 2016–2017
Full turnkey restaurant development
Role: Founder-led turnkey mandate — P. Dayaparan carried single-point responsibility from the signed mandate to handover management.
Delivered: Signed turnkey instrument set (proposal · letter of intent · agreement · invoice) · Layout and architecture drawings with coordinated services layouts
Limit: The 60-day programme is a contractual fact, not a completion claim — completion timing is not independently evidenced and is not claimed.
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Restaurant-development consultancy and pre-construction governance
Role: Founder-led development governance — options, layouts, kitchen logic, contractor scope and commercial agreements governed before construction committed the money.
Delivered: Consultancy proposal with detailed scope and activity sequencing · Layout and kitchen alternatives with preliminary visualisations
Limit: This record is deliberately presented as consultancy and pre-construction governance — no construction, completion or trading claim is made.
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Café development, equipment, BOQ and technology coordination
Role: Founder-led systems coordination — the unglamorous systems that decide speed, safety and reliability, specified and reconciled as one backbone.
Delivered: Revised BOQ with missing-item reconciliation · Equipment schedules and supplier quotation records
Limit: Not presented as a turnkey mandate — no signed turnkey instrument is attested.
Each record opens with its roles, deliverables and the limits of what it proves — read the record, not the summary.
The framework below is a GGB original, informed by inspected 2012–2013 full-level plan and kitchen-equipment schedule sets for two development sites held on file.
The decisions this createsgates, not vibes
- GATEZone-architecture freeze before statutory design
- GATEEquipment-schedule sign-off before procurement
- GATEMEP coordination pass before services install
- GATEAuthority-readiness check before inspection
Kitchen design and flow runs inside every Genesis build mandate; standalone engagements fit venues re-planning an existing kitchen or preparing for authority escalation.
Launch — concept to open From AED 150,000 indicative — scoped per engagement
Questions
- Do you issue the statutory kitchen drawings?
- No — statutory design and engineering drawings are produced by licensed professionals within their appointment. GGB writes the zone architecture, flows, schedules and requirement briefs those professionals design from, and coordinates owner-side until handover.
- Does this cover cloud kitchens?
- Yes — the same flow discipline at delivery-first geometry: goods-in, cold chain, station zoning, dispatch and rider interface. The economics differ; the contamination law does not.
One application starts the whole system.
The Start a Project application qualifies the brief across capital, site, timing and scope — the same intake every Genesis mandate begins with. The paid feasibility study is the commercial entry.
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