Modular Buildings for Retail & Hospitality
Retail and hospitality units are judged on frontage and on how well the serving line works. We design around the customer approach, the counter and the services behind it, and finish the outside to suit your brand rather than leaving it looking like a cabin.

What this sector usually needs
- Strong glazed frontage and clear customer entrance
- Serving hatch or lift-up canopy at counter height
- Water, waste and power for a working kitchen
- Secure locking or shutters out of hours
- Branded cladding and finish quality
Buildings for retail & hospitality

A café unit is a working kitchen with a shopfront attached. Everything depends on the serving line: where customers queue, where the barista stands, and where water, waste and power land behind the counter.

A retail unit has to pull people in from outside and stay secure when it's closed. That means generous shopfront glazing, a clear customer entrance, and shutters or lockable glazing for out of hours.

A showroom has a different job from a shop: it has to make a considered purchase feel credible. That means glazing you can display through, a proper reception, somewhere private to sit down and do the deal, and a finish that matches the brand rather than looking like a site cabin.

If you need another commercial kitchen rather than a café, Adacon designs and manufactures a permanent modular catering building around your kitchen layout. You or your catering designer set the equipment and workflow; we build the insulated, fitted building to suit it, with provisions for extraction, drainage, power and specialist services, and coordinate the equipment installers. These kitchens are designed to be used permanently, so they are supplied for purchase rather than hire.
Other sectors
Planning a project in retail & hospitality?
Design the building online for an instant estimate, or talk it through with our team.
Get a price for Retail & Hospitality
Tell us what you need and we'll come back with pricing and lead times — usually within one working day.
Design options
All design optionsUseful guides
Practical guidance on module sizes, configuration, fit-out and the factors that shape a tailored modular-building quotation.
Whether a modular building needs planning permission depends on its use, size, siting and duration. Read how the common cases usually work in the UK.
Modular buildings need a level, load-bearing base rather than traditional deep foundations. Learn what base types suit garden rooms, site offices and two-storey builds.