By TERRY KELLY
Published on Thursday 28 June 2012 07:57
A SOUTH Tyneside company is successfully putting down roots in the garden centre market.
Restaurant Design Associates (RDA) Limited, based in Monkton Business Park, Hebburn, specialises in creating eating spaces.
The company has a strong reputation within the education, healthcare and high street sectors, working across the UK to create bespoke, high-quality kitchens, cafés and restaurants.
Now RDA is working with Strikes Garden Centres, having completed two projects to design and install cafés at several of the company’s garden centres.
Paul Hirst, design director at RDA, said: “At Houghton Hall, Carlisle, we were asked to install a more intimate coffee shop to complement the existing restaurant there. At Beverley, we worked to create a large restaurant in Strikes’ new premises, which it has recently taken over from another company.
“The sites varied greatly in size and in terms of their menu offer, so our designs had to reflect this.”
David Yardley, group operations director for Klondyke Group Ltd, which owns Strikes Garden Centres, said: “We’ve been very pleased with the work RDA has done for us.
“Both the coffee shop at Houghton Hall and the restaurant at our Beverley Garden Centre have been installed and are performing well.
“They have been well received by our customers and we’re looking at possibly working with RDA again at some of our other garden centres.”
The move into the garden centre market came about as a result of RDA attending the GLEE garden centre exhibition last year. Roy Addyman, managing director of RDA, said: “It was the first time we had been to the exhibition, but there was a lot of interest in our work, resulting in a number of business leads.
“We want RDA to continue to grow and that’s why we’re keen to tap into new markets.
“As a result of the success of the GLEE exhibition, we’re also going to be attending the Restaurant Show at Earls Court in October for the first time.
“It’s attended by thousands of chefs, buyers and other decision-makers from the food service industry and will provide a great platform for us to show them a bit more about what we do at RDA, and talk about our initiatives, such as Ethical by Design, which involves working with clients to create designs with strong elements of sustainability.”
To find out more about RDA, go to the website at www.rdalimited.co.uk or contact the company team on 0844 873 4993.
RDA is building its portfolio in the retail and hotel/hospitality industries, working with high street chains like Costa Coffee on a number of branches around the UK and designing and installing a restaurant and bar at the flagship five-star Aloft Hotel at London’s Exhibition and Conference Centre (Excel).
To find out more about RDA go to the website at www.rdalimited.co.uk or contact the company team on 0844 873 4993.
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