From the first layout sketch to the day your kitchen fires up. Cleresdyne handles every stage of a commercial kitchen fit-out in Dubai — design, MEP, stainless fabrication, equipment, ventilation and commissioning. One team, one point of contact, one company accountable for the result.
A kitchen fit-out is the complete process of turning an empty shell or existing space into a fully operational commercial kitchen. It covers layout design, mechanical and electrical planning, equipment selection and procurement, custom stainless steel fabrication, installation, utility connections, and final commissioning — everything except the civil works.
Hiring a kitchen contractor to handle this end-to-end is standard practice in the industry. What varies is the quality of execution, the accuracy of the drawings, the reliability of the timeline, and whether the contractor keeps communicating when things get complicated on site. That's where Cleresdyne earns its reputation. by delivering what was promised, on the schedule that was agreed, and staying reachable throughout the process.
We've delivered this service for over 100 restaurants, from compact café kitchens under 500 sq ft to large-format multi-station venues like John Dory Seafood Restaurant at Market Island.
Workflow-optimised floor plans that maximise your space, separate food zones correctly, and meet UAE municipality and Civil Defence requirements. Includes equipment placement, clearance checks, and staff circulation planning. We wrote a detailed guide on how we translate a restaurant's menu into a kitchen layout, including three different concepts designed in the same space.
Full mechanical, electrical, and plumbing drawings with load schedules, drainage layouts, gas connections, and ventilation requirements — coordinated with your main contractor and MEP consultant.
Specification and procurement of commercial kitchen equipment from leading manufacturers. We select equipment based on your menu, volume, and budget, not based on dealer margins.
Countertops, shelving, exhaust hoods, sinks, pass-throughs, and bespoke elements in SS 304 grade, fabricated to our drawings and specification — the same standard we hold on metalwork packages we take for other contractors. We've written a reference on stainless steel finishes and coatings covering every option we get asked about, from brush to PVD to powder coat.
Delivery, positioning, utility connections, testing, and commissioning run under the same contract as the design — so what was drawn is what gets installed, with no handover between a designer and a separate installer.
Documentation, layout approvals, and compliance support for UAE municipality food safety requirements. Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, and other emirates.
Before any fabrication or installation begins, Cleresdyne produces a complete set of kitchen drawings: equipment layout, electrical point locations with load schedules, and plumbing and drainage plans. These drawings are coordinated with your MEP consultant and main contractor.
Equipment placement, zone separation, workflow paths, and clearance dimensions
Socket locations, load capacities, isolator positions, and junction box placements
Hot/cold water supply, wall drains, gas outlets, shut-off valves, and floor grating details
Every kitchen project follows the same structured process — whether it's a single restaurant or a multi-unit rollout.
We visit the site, understand your concept and menu, assess the space, and discuss budget and timeline.
Our design team produces a kitchen layout, equipment schedule, MEP drawings, and fabrication specifications for your review.
Equipment is procured, custom stainless steel is fabricated to specification, and everything is prepared for delivery and installation.
Our installation team delivers, positions, connects utilities, and commissions every piece of equipment on site.
After handover, we offer ongoing maintenance contracts to keep your kitchen running at peak performance.
Restaurant owners opening a new venue and need a kitchen designed and built from scratch
F&B groups rolling out a franchise or multi-unit concept that needs standardised kitchen specifications across locations
Interior designers and architects who need a kitchen contractor to handle the back-of-house scope of a restaurant project
Hotel operators building or renovating restaurant, banquet, or room-service kitchens
Cloud kitchen operators setting up delivery-only kitchens with efficient layouts and compliant setups
Catering companies building or expanding central production kitchen facilities
If the site is already operating, Cleresdyne can assess whether the kitchen needs a full renovation, phased upgrade, equipment replacement, or targeted stainless steel and ventilation work.
We prepare the kitchen layout drawings and documentation to Dubai Municipality, SFDA or Abu Dhabi Public Health requirements depending on the emirate, and issue everything needed for approvals and permits. Obtaining the approval itself is not in our scope — that sits with the operator or their licensing consultant, along with the trade licence and food permit.
It depends on size, equipment availability, and landlord coordination — but most restaurant kitchens move from final design approval to commissioning over a multi-month programme. New builds in shopping centres usually run longer because of mall coordination; renovations in operating venues can be faster because the shell already exists. We commit to a written programme during the quote stage so the client knows what to plan around.
A full commercial kitchen fit-out covers the entire back-of-house build: layout and design, MEP coordination, stainless-steel fabrication, equipment supply and installation, refrigeration and cold rooms, ventilation and exhaust, and commissioning — plus the kitchen layout approvals with the authority. Cleresdyne delivers all of it as one accountable package.
It depends on the size of the kitchen, the menu and equipment specification, the finishes, and the condition of the shell — a compact café kitchen and a multi-station restaurant kitchen sit far apart. Rather than quote a misleading average, we price each project after reviewing your menu and floor plan, and give you a detailed, line-item quote. Send us both and we'll come back with a figure.
Yes — design is where every Cleresdyne fit-out starts. Before any equipment is ordered or a single panel is fabricated, we produce the kitchen layout, MEP coordination, equipment specification, and full technical drawings, sized to your menu, your covers, and the shell you're working with. Design runs as the front end of the kitchen contract rather than as a separate commission — so the drawings are made by the people who will build from them.
The same contract covers both. On a lot of projects the layout comes from an independent consultant, goes out to tender, and is then redrawn by whichever contractor wins — and the gap between those two drawing sets is where variation orders come from. Because our design stage sits inside the kitchen contract there is no handover: the equipment layout, electrical loads, drainage runs, and clearances are set by the team that has to install against them. Twelve Nando's kitchens have been delivered off the same drawing set with near-zero variation orders. It also fixes the programme — our production lead time starts at design confirmation, so the schedule is decided in the design stage, not on site.
There's a deposit against the design stage. It's credited into the kitchen contract when you build with us, and it isn't refunded if you take the drawings to another contractor. That's deliberate. A kitchen layout with load schedules, drainage runs, and clearance checks is real engineering time spent before anyone has signed for a build — and a design given away free to win a tender is a design nobody can afford to spend that time on. Paying for it is what makes it worth having.
Tell us about your project and we'll put together a proposal. Free consultations for all new kitchen fit-out enquiries.