🍽️ Finish and Feast – Central Production Kitchen Design & Build for Premium Home Dining Brand

🏠 About the Client

Finish and Feast is a high-end home dining company specialising in restaurant-quality meal experiences delivered directly to customers across the UK. Their curated menus are created in partnership with celebrated chefs and premium brands such as Tom Aikens and Ketel One.

Even for customers with no cooking experience, Finish and Feast offers the tools and guidance to enjoy fine dining at home, with meticulous attention to detail in every aspect – from ingredients to packaging and presentation.

📋 Project Scope & Requirements

Finish and Feast commissioned us to design and build a bespoke Central Production Unit (CPU) within a newly acquired 200 square metre industrial warehouse. The facility needed to support a complex, multi-zone production operation while maintaining high food hygiene standards.

The kitchen design had to include:

• Storage areas for dry goods, fresh produce, and frozen items

• Dedicated prep areas for meat, fish, and vegetables

• Separate cooking areas, including:

  • General cooking section

  • Combi oven cooking zone

• Blast chilling and chilled goods-out zones

• Packaging and labelling area

• Pot wash and waste management station

🔍 Design Phase & Planning

The warehouse offered a blank canvas, which allowed for a fully tailored layout. Following in-depth consultations and a number of detailed layout revisions, a final design was approved and the transformation began.

🚧 Groundworks & Flooring

Key challenges addressed early in the build:

• The warehouse had only one existing drainage point, located entirely in the wrong area.

• Mini diggers were used internally and externally to:

  • Excavate new drainage routes

  • Connect to a drain cover at the front of the building

• Once drainage was installed, we repaired and levelled the floor.

• The entire kitchen floor was coated with Altro Tect – a durable, slip-resistant resin system ideal for commercial kitchens.

🌬️ Extraction, Ventilation & Utilities

The cooking zones required powerful and compliant extraction and ventilation systems.

Installation included:

• Two commercial extraction canopies:

  • 5-metre and 8-metre units, ducted to roof-mounted extraction plant

• Gas infrastructure:

  • A 30-metre gas pipe run across the building

  • A central gas manifold serving multiple appliances

  • Full interlock with extraction and fresh air systems

• Hot and cold water systems:

  • Installation of two Megaflow pressurised hot water cylinders

  • Complete copper pipework throughout the premises

  • Waste pipework routed to a mechanical EPAS grease trap for water regulation compliance

🧱 Interior Build & Fit-Out

Once utility infrastructure was in place, the internal kitchen zones were constructed.

Works included:

• Timber and plasterboard stud walls, clad in Bioclad UPVC hygienic wall panels

  • Some walls constructed half-height to allow for supervision visibility from the main cooking area

• Construction of:

  • A large walk-in cold room

  • A separate walk-in freezer room

• Delivery and installation of:

  • Multiple bespoke stainless steel benches and sinks

  • A full suite of commercial cooking equipment, including combi ovens, ranges, and prep units

✅ Final Result

The finished Central Production Unit now provides Finish and Feast with a:

• Purpose-built, high-capacity production facility

• Fully segregated food zones to meet HACCP and food safety standards

• Seamless workflow from goods-in to packaging and distribution

• Scalable infrastructure to support continued business growth

📞 Planning a Central Production Kitchen for Your Business?

Whether you’re launching a food delivery brand or scaling an existing foodservice operation, we have the expertise to design and build kitchens that meet exacting standards.

👉 Call Kent Commercial Kitchen today on 01304 249963 to start planning your project.

👇 Scroll down to view photos of the completed Finish and Feast facility.