BNA BREWERY
BNA BREWERY
Project Overview
Originating as an exclusive employee perk, A-OK has evolved into a public staple within several of Aritzia’s North American clothing stores, providing a unique blend of style, comfort, and taste. The menu including pizza, salads, pasta, gelato, pastries, and coffee.
The concept has since expanded to incorporate retail cafes within select clothing stores across North America, seamlessly blending gastronomy with fashion.
A-OK Commissary & Cafes offers more than just a dining experience; it’s a design house with an innovative global platform that combines delicious culinary delights with retail convenience.
Our designs incorporate high-quality materials and finishes that reflect Aritzia’s fashion-forward brand, ensuring each space is both functional for dining and consistent with the retail setting.
OUR TEAM
A kitchen for every need
From bustling restaurants to state-of-the-art healthcare facilities, we proudly serve a diverse range of industries with tailored commercial kitchen solutions designed to meet their unique needs.
Our senior design team handles everything from strategic planning, workflow efficiency, spatial layout optimization, process integration, and more. Their goal is to minimize bottlenecks and ensure smooth communication between teams all while maintaining safety and quality standards.
Nick Arcadi
Senior Project Manager
Stanley Tsia
Design Manager
Dara Nel-McIntosh
Senior Designer
Gunay Balkis
Design Coordinator
Haifeng Wang
Foodservice Designer
Erica Ko
Foodservice Designer
OUR TEAM
Front-of-House / Back-of-House Flow Optimization
From bustling restaurants to state-of-the-art healthcare facilities, we proudly serve a diverse range of industries with tailored commercial kitchen solutions designed to meet their unique needs.
Our senior design team handles everything from strategic planning, workflow efficiency, spatial layout optimization, process integration, and more. Their goal is to minimize bottlenecks and ensure smooth communication between teams all while maintaining safety and quality standards.
✔ Reduce wait times
✔ Reduce food wastage
✔ Improve service accuracy
✔ Elevate overall dining experience
1. Schematic Design
2. Design Development
3. Consulting & Specification
We start with an initial exploration with our clients and their space. This allows our team to establish requirements and provide solutions and layouts within architectural parameters.
A preliminary schematic layout is then developed with a focus on kitchen flow and cooking intent.
Once the general schematic has been approved by the client, we further coordinate and consult on the project with our team, which includes mechanical, electrical, architectural, and structural.
We manage the project from start to finish and continue to overcome any issues discovered during the construction phase.
Our commitment to excellence doesn’t end once the project is complete. We believe in building lasting relationships with our clients by continuing to support them long after the initial design and installation phases.
Through our consulting services, we provide expert guidance to help clients fine-tune their operations, adapt to evolving needs, and maintain peak performance in their foodservice facilities.
OUR WORK
We Design, Build, and Supply High-Performance Commercial Kitchens
We have forged together three distinct companies into one. A foodservice design agency (Foundry Foodservice Design) a custom stainless fabrication shop (Foundry Stainless Fabrication) and a food equipment dealership (Foundry Foodservice Equipment).
