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Our success is based upon experience and a desire to really understand your foodservice operation. We look at the "big-picture" like your menu items, customer service, churn and peak
times, who prepares the food and how it’s done. This helps us pinpoint what you really need, and make sound recommendations.
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KECdesign also diagnoses issues, including those you haven’t uncovered.
For example we can:
  • review layouts and find extra space for storage or equipment;
  • step into a restaurant and know right away if an HVAC system isn’t suited to your operation;
  • identify when the CO2 tanks for your soda station are positioned in a way that could become high velocity “missiles;”
  • uncover food safety problems and cook line efficiency improvements.
  • Help you with products that will save energy and help you “Go Green”

With more than 50 years of collective experience in the restaurant equipment industry, our project list shows the breadth and depth of our staff’s experience. Most projects included consultation, commercial kitchen design in CAD, project management, equipment distribution and installation.

INDEPENDENT RESTAURANTS/BARS

Billy Barooz Steakhouse – Champaign, IL
Buttita’s – Champaign, IL
Cybourn’s – Champaign,IL
Firefly Grill - Effingham, IL
Firehaus - Champaign, IL
Firehouse Brewery - Morris, IL
Jupiters West - Champaign, IL
Piece Microbrewery - Chicago, IL
Round Barn Restaurant - Champaign, IL
Seven Saints – Champaign, IL
Smiley’s Restaurant - Arlington Heights
Three Ravens Food and Spirits - Monticello, IL
The New Uncle Johns - Champaign, IL

MULTI-UNIT AND CHAIN RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE

Connie’s Pizza - Chicago area
Dairy Queen - targeted IL locations
Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches - 800+ stores in U.S.
Houlihan’s - Champaign, IL
La Rosetta - Chicago, IL
Rosebud’s of Highland Park - Highland Park, IL
Rosebud’s of Naperville - Naperville, IL
Rosebud Steakhouse - Chicago, IL
UFood Grill - Chicago, IL; Draper Utah
Wow Bao! – Chicago, IL
Za’s Restaurant - Ann Arbor, MI, Champaign, IL

CASINOS

Harrah’s Casino - Joliet, IL
Harrah’s Casino - Kansas City, MO
Soaring Eagle Casino - Mt. Pleasant, MI

HOSPITALS/NURSING HOMES

Carle Foundation Hospital - Champaign, IL
Illinois Masonic Hospital - Chicago, IL
MacNeal Memorial Hospital - Berwyn, IL
Methodist Medical Center - Peoria, IL
The Glenwood - Mt.Zion, IL
Windsor Retirement Communities - facilities throughout IA and WI
West Suburban Hospital - Oak Park, IL
Windsor Of Savoy - Savoy, IL

SCHOOLS & COLLEGES

DeLasalle College Prep - Chicago, IL
Eastern Illinois University - Charleston, IL
Gustavus Adolphus College - Minneapolis, MN
I-Hotel and Café at University of Illinois - Champaign, IL
Illinois State University, Feeney Hall - Normal, IL
Memorial Stadium at University of Illinois - Champaign, IL
Nequa Valley H.S.- Naperville, IL
Nobel Learning Centers – Denver, CO; Denver, NE; Dallas, TX; Chicago, IL
St. Ignatious College Prep - Chicago, IL
Unit 4 Schools - Champaign, IL

OTHER

Champaign Military Armory - Champaign, IL
Hudson News - Airports around U.S.
Maywood Park Race Track - Maywood, IL
Mobile Super Pantry - Champaign, IL
PlazaVerde Banquet - Buffalo Grove, IL
Salvation Army Facility - Gary, IN

BUSINESS & INSTITUTIONS

American Legion - Delavan, IL
General Cinema, Premium Cinema Kitchen-Brookfield, WI, Lombard, IL, Owings Mills, MD, West Allis, WI
Human Kinetics Publishing - Champaign, IL
Hewitt Associates - Lincolnshire, IL
Hobbico - Champaign, IL
Opus Development Deli - Lake Forest, IL
Plastipak Packaging - Champaign, IL