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California franchisee works closely with design firm during build-outs of The Halal Guys locations

March 15, 2019

One Olive Group, a California-based franchisee of The Halal Guys, has tapped Restaurant Design Concepts, a restaurant architectural company, to help it open up to 20 Hala Guys across California, according to a company press release.

One Olive Group partnered with the California-based design firm to build out its first Halal Guys franchise location three years ago in San Jose and two others in 2018. Two will open this year, and plans call for at least 15 more franchise locations across the Bay Area and Sacramento in the next 10 years.

"Without proper design, it would be difficult for us to ensure that our customer flow and operations run smoothly," Jason Wu, franchise group vice president of operations at One Olive Group, said in the release.  "With a limited space to work with from the back to the front-of-the-house, we were looking for a pretty tight design that would allow us to quickly meet the order volume in our stores which can run anywhere from 300 to 500 orders per day. RDC was the ticket to achieving our goal of efficiency and implementing design standards that considered the complexities of each site."  

One Olive Group appreciated RDC's ability to recognize certain aspects of a space that could potentially pose challenges during the restaurant build-out. As a result, it started bringing RDC into their projects at the very beginning, when scouting locations and before signing any leasing agreement.

"As former start-up tech founders, professionalism, agility, flexibility and responsiveness were extremely important to us and we found that in RDC and then some," Wu said. "The RDC team is great at helping us figure out the total cost of our build-out in the very beginning, which saves a lot of time and hassle. They are also getting things done at crunch time and using their connections to identify local experts including mechanical engineers, electricians and other resources."

The Halal Guys opened as a food cart in the 1990s in New York City.