Case study · Restaurants & cafés
Waverley House, Margate
Restaurant kitchen design and installation on Margate seafront — Rational iCombi combi oven, Blue Seal cookline, Foster and True refrigeration, walk-in cold room, Winterhalter glasswashers and full hygienic fit-out in 3 weeks.
Client
Waverley House
Location
Margate, Kent
Project value
£50k–£100k
Build time
3 weeks
The brief
A full kitchen redesign on Margate seafront
Waverley House is a restaurant on Margate's seafront — a busy, all-day operation drawing both local diners and visitors. Owner Tomas had a clear vision: a better layout, properly specified equipment at every station, and surfaces that would hold up under high-volume daily service.
The brief started with CAD design — multiple floor plan iterations until the layout was right, then full installation. New hygienic surfaces, suspended ceiling, Polyflor slip-resistant flooring, walk-in cold room, full cooking suite and warewashing, bar equipment and grease management. Delivered in 3 weeks, in-house.
What we did
CAD design through to handover in 3 weeks
CAD design and layout planning
Full CAD kitchen design produced and iterated with Tomas across multiple revisions — positioning the cooking suite, refrigeration, warewashing and bar station to optimise flow from prep through to service. Design signed off before installation began.
Surfaces, ceiling and flooring
UPVC hygienic wall cladding throughout the kitchen. Suspended ceiling system installed. Polyflor slip-resistant safety flooring laid across the full floor area — appropriate for a high-footfall seafront restaurant running continuous service.
Cooking suite and hot holding
Rational iCombi combi oven as the anchor of the cooking suite. Blue Seal fryers and griddles across the main cookline. Hatco drawer warmers at the pass for consistent service temperature. Equipment positioned for the chef's workflow from the design stage.
Refrigeration, warewashing and ancillaries
Walk-in cold room installed for bulk cold storage. Foster drawer refrigeration under-counter at prep positions. True cabinet refrigeration for working cold storage. Winterhalter glasswashers and Maidaid dishwashers for the warewash area. Ice-o-matic ice machine. Aqua Mundus grease management system. Bar equipment and beverage dispensers. Bespoke stainless steel fabrication — benches, sinks and shelving throughout.
Equipment specified
Fully specified for a busy seafront restaurant
- Rational iCombi combi oven — cooking suite anchor
- Blue Seal fryers and griddles — main cookline
- Hatco drawer warmers — pass hot holding
- Foster drawer refrigeration — under-counter at prep
- True cabinet refrigeration — working cold storage
- Walk-in cold room — bulk cold storage
- Winterhalter glasswashers — bar warewashing
- Maidaid dishwashers — kitchen warewashing
- Ice-o-matic ice machine
- Aqua Mundus grease management system
- Bespoke stainless steel fabrication — benches, sinks, shelving
- UPVC hygienic wall cladding — full kitchen coverage
- Polyflor safety flooring — slip-resistant throughout
- Suspended ceiling system
The installation
Inside the refurbished kitchen
The outcome
Operational on Margate seafront
Waverley House opened with a fully specified kitchen — designed from scratch with the owner, built and installed in 3 weeks. Every station properly equipped, surfaces compliant, workflow designed for the volume a busy seafront restaurant requires. Delivered in-house, direct appointment, no subcontractors.
- CEDA Member The Catering Equipment Distributors Association — UK's voice for foodservice equipment specialists.
- ISO 9001 · 14001 · 45001 Certified The only Kent commercial kitchen design-and-install firm certified to all three.
- F-Gas Certified Certified to handle and install refrigerants in commercial refrigeration and cooling equipment.
- Gas Safe Registered All commercial gas installations carried out by Gas Safe registered engineers.
- Part of Advantage Catering Equipment Kent's design, supply and service specialists since 2003.
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