How much does a modular café or catering unit cost?
A modular café's cost depends on the kitchen and servery fit-out, seating area, customer toilets, glazing and utility connections on site. Design the café online to see its total.
Catering units live or die on the layout: serving position, kitchen flow, and where customers queue. Because every module is fitted out in the factory, the servery, extraction points and drainage are set before it ever reaches your site.
Typical configurations
Choose the mix of unit sizes and fit-out you need. The designer shows the final total for that exact configuration.
| Modules | What it realistically fits |
|---|---|
| 1 module | Takeaway kiosk with serving hatch and prep space |
| 2 modules | Kitchen plus servery, or kiosk with a store and staff WC |
| 3 modules | Café with kitchen, counter and small seating area |
| 4 modules | Café with kitchen, seating, customer WC and accessible WC |
Typical specification
- •Drive-through or walk-up serving window
- •Wipe-clean finishes and catering-grade flooring
- •Kitchen with sink, power for equipment and provision for extraction
- •Staff and customer WCs with hand-wash basins
- •Shutters or secure glazing for out-of-hours
What your site needs
- •Level base with drainage for sinks and WCs
- •Water supply and an electrical supply sized for catering equipment
- •Local authority food-premises registration
- •Planning permission or a change-of-use application in most locations
Costs on top of the building
These site-specific items sit outside the designed building total and are quoted for your project.
- •VAT at the prevailing rate
- •A level, load-bearing base or foundation sized to the building
- •Transport to site, quoted on distance and access
- •Offloading, and crane or hiab attendance where access requires it
- •Final connection to mains power, water and drainage by your own contractor
- •Planning permission or building control fees where these apply
P300–P700 range, or bespoke
- P300 unit
- 2.9m × 2.2m externally; approximately 2.7m × 2.0m usable internally (5.4 m² usable internal area per separate unit)
- P400 unit
- 3.9m × 2.2m externally; approximately 3.7m × 2.0m usable internally (7.4 m² usable internal area per separate unit)
- P500 unit
- 4.9m × 2.2m externally; approximately 4.7m × 2.0m usable internally (9.4 m² usable internal area per separate unit)
- P600 unit
- 5.9m × 2.2m externally; approximately 5.7m × 2.0m usable internally (11.4 m² usable internal area per separate unit)
- P700 unit
- 6.9m × 2.2m externally; approximately 6.7m × 2.0m usable internally (13.4 m² usable internal area per separate unit)
- Configuration
- Mix P300, P400, P500, P600 and P700 units to create tailored footprints and shapes
- Bespoke
- Bespoke sizes considered to suit your brief — contact us
- Joined internal space
- Open joins remove the adjoining shell walls and can increase usable space. Final clear area depends on layout and partitions.
- Unit height
- 2.40m external / 2.16m internal
- Storeys
- Up to two storeys, subject to final project design
- Delivery
- UK mainland and Northern Ireland — transport quoted separately
Adacon modular buildings use P300, P400, P500, P600 and P700 units with external lengths of 2.9m, 3.9m, 4.9m, 5.9m and 6.9m, a common 2.2m width and 2.40m external / 2.16m internal height. The sizes can be combined to create more tailored floor areas and building shapes, joined side by side or stacked to two storeys subject to the final project design.
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