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RESTAURANT FIT-OUT, KENYA - DELIVERED 2025
A curved bar counter for a Kenyan restaurant.
A curved bar run under a stone top, with a fluted front profile and integrated lighting, plus banquette seating bays and a vanity run - built as one commercial joinery package rather than a set of separate trades.
Commercial · Kenya · 2025 · Commercial & hospitality
The brief
One counter, and everything that has to line up with it.
A restaurant fit-out is bought as a set of trades and then discovered as one object. The bar here is the anchor: a curved run that the seating, the service route and the lighting all have to work around. Getting the curve built as joinery rather than assembled on site is what keeps the front face continuous and the top in one piece.
What made it hard
A curve cannot be trimmed to fit.
Curved work is unforgiving because there is no straight edge to scribe against. The radius has to be set from the room, the fluted front has to hold that radius without opening at the joints, and the stone top has to be templated to the finished carcass rather than cut in advance. Add integrated lighting under the top and the whole assembly has to be wired and tested before it is crated, not after it lands.
Fluted front, stone top, light underneath.
The front face is a fluted profile, which is what gives the curve a vertical grain instead of a flat painted surface - and it has to be bent to the radius in the factory, because a fluted panel forced on site will open at the joints within a season. The top is stone, templated to the finished carcass. The lighting sits in the recess under the top, wired and tested before packing.
- Bar front fluted profile, bent to radius
- Bar top stone, templated to the finished carcass
- Lighting integrated under-top, wired and tested in the factory
- Seating banquette bays, fixed to the room
- Vanity solid surface run in the washroom
- Sector restaurant and bar, commercial spec
The build
What the client sent back.
1CURVED COUNTER
STONEBAR TOP
FLUTEDFRONT PROFILE
2025DELIVERED
Spec
What was built.
| Location | Kenya |
| Year | 2025 |
| Sector | Restaurant and bar - commercial fit-out |
| Scope | Bar counter, banquette seating, washroom vanity |
| Bar front | Fluted profile, bent to the room radius |
| Bar top | Stone, templated to the finished carcass |
| Lighting | Integrated under-top, wired and tested before crating |
| Packing | Numbered per zone, stone crated on edge |
| Terms | EXW - deposit by T/T, balance before shipment |
| Production | Scheduled against the deposit, per zone |
The radius and the seating layout were set from the site survey. The stone top was templated to the finished carcass, not cut from the drawing, because a curved run cannot be measured from a plan alone.
Factory to site
How the project ran.
Week 0 - Site survey
Radius, seating layout and service route recorded, because the counter sets the geometry for everything around it.
Weeks 1-2 - Joinery drawings
Bar carcass, fluted front and banquette bays drawn as one package so the seams line up.
Weeks 2-3 - Lighting and stone
Under-top lighting detailed and wired, stone templated to the carcass rather than to the drawing.
Weeks 3-9 - Production
Front bent to radius, carcass built, light tested, stone cut to template.
Weeks 9-11 - Packing and export
Numbered per zone, stone crated on edge with face sheets between slabs.
Production & export
Numbered by zone so the fit-out closes in days.
A commercial fit-out is judged on how fast the site comes back to trading. Every element here was numbered by zone - bar, bays, washroom - so the installers open one crate per area instead of sorting a mixed container, and the stone travelled on edge with a face sheet between slabs. The supermarket and restaurant programme covers how the same sequencing works when a venue has to keep trading through the build.
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FAQ
This project, in plain answers.
Why build the bar front as joinery rather than assemble it on site?
A curved front has no straight edge to scribe against. Bending the fluted profile to the radius in the factory is what keeps the face continuous - a panel forced on site will open at the joints within a season.
How is the stone top matched to a curve?
It is templated to the finished carcass rather than cut from the drawing, because a radius cannot be measured accurately from a plan. The template is taken once the carcass is built and squared.
Is the lighting wired before shipping?
Yes. The under-top lighting is set into the recess, wired and tested in the factory, so the site is connecting a tested assembly rather than fault-finding a lighting run in a finished room.
What else was in the fit-out?
Banquette seating bays fixed to the room, and a vanity run in the washroom built to match the bar rather than to a trade standard.
How is a commercial order packed for a fast install?
Numbered by zone - bar, bays, washroom - so the crew opens one crate per area. Stone travels on edge with face sheets between slabs.
Can a venue keep trading through a fit-out like this?
It depends on the sequencing, which is decided before production rather than on site. The supermarket and restaurant programme page covers how that works when the venue cannot close.
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