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St. John’s University Marillac Cafeteria Jamaica, NY Project Size 9,000 SF Graf & Lewent Architects was retained by St. John’s University to completely renovate the existing kitchen facility, servery area and a portion of the dining hall in their main cafeteria. In the final design, the space contains about 9,000 square feet with 2,500 square feet of kitchen areas and a stand alone food concept with about 1,600 square feet. The space adjoins an existing dining hall of about 400 seats. Working closely with St. John’s in house catering team, a kitchen consultant, several national food chains, the MEP firm and a lighting consultant, Graf & Lewent developed and coordinated an approach to open the space and make it lighter and more inviting while maintaining identities for the individual food concepts. In total, there are six food concepts with a separate convenience area or “Grab N Go” area that is open around the clock. The design and construction process was extremely tight and the entire process was completed in seven months to be open in time for their fall semester.

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St. John’s UniversityMarillac CafeteriaJamaica, NY

Project Size9,000 SF

Graf & Lewent Architects was retained by St. John’s University to completely renovate the existing kitchen facility, servery area and a portion of the dining hall in their main cafeteria. In the final design, the space contains about 9,000 square feet with 2,500 square feet of kitchen areas and a stand alone food concept with about 1,600 square feet. The space adjoins an existing dining hall of about 400 seats. Working closely with St. John’s in house catering team, a kitchen consultant, several national food chains, the MEP firm and a lighting consultant, Graf & Lewent developed and coordinated an approach to open the space and make it lighter and more inviting while maintaining identities for the individual food concepts. In total, there are six food concepts with a separate convenience area or “Grab N Go” area that is open around the clock. The design and construction process was extremely tight and the entire process was completed in seven months to be open in time for their fall semester.