Building on Opportunity: Shop & Dine Northwestern Brings the Right Mix of Retail Offerings to the Healthcare Environment
This webpage introduces how to integrate restaurants and retail into the healthcare environment.
The 9,200 square foot dual restaurant initiative is the largest space in the Shop & Dine Northwestern project, and it includes a 2,000 square foot mezzanine, which wasn’t included in the base building. Like many of the other restaurants, there were challenges with moving into the building.
That’s where Skender Construction came in. With experience building at Northwestern Memorial and building retail in general, Skender was able to bring together restaurant owners and the hospital to use Lean principles to plan and track daily activity. While start-up seemed like a slower-than-usual process to Rosenthal, detailed production planning was playing a big role behind the scenes.
