Slim Chickens Franchising Architecture + Engineering Services
Our Story Our 30 years of practice has taught us the importance of relationships built on trust and confidence. We trust our clients and partners to understand the needs of their customers, and
licensed in states
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they trust us to lead the design process for their spaces.
350+ professionals
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National Coverage We have over 350 professionals working coast to coast, and licensure across all 50 states, so we can collaborate no matter where you’re based. We seek to deliver the right balance of simplicty and innovation to align teams and technology around what matters most—your customer.
10,000+ projects permitted
4 OFFICES across
2COUNTRIES
1900+ communities
Solutions that Scale Customer expectations are always changing—and so is your business. That’s why your A+E firm needs to be flexible. Whether you’re an investment pioneer working on their first concept or an established company updating their prototype, we can help.
Powerful Technology We help our clients fully take advantage of the “I” in BIM and assist their efforts to establish standards and drive model consistency.
By leveraging the latest technology to explore your projects in real-time, you’ll be able to help inform smarter design decisions and facilitate early project buy-in from stakeholders.
Turnkey Services As the program architect for Slim Chickens, we maintain the Slim Chickens restaurant prototypes and can quickly adapt this standard to your site in the most efficient manner. Being near Slim Chickens headquarters in Fayetteville, AR also allows our team even more in-person opportunities to meet with new franchisees and corporate clients prior to construction.
Streamlined Workflows We produce comprehensive drawings for Slim Chickens in a cost-efficient manner having developed the architecture, MEP, and structural standards for the ground-up prototypes offered. We develop and maintain all the details required for Slim Chickens restaurants and can deliver the latest and greatest standards included in your construction documents.
Design Options We can adapt the Slim Chickens design to your site requirements regardless of if you have a ground-up build, a takeover conversion, or tenant infill locations. Our team has created multiple corporate-approved prototype designs that can be adapted to your site based on lot size and how much kitchen and dining room square footage you prefer.
Our history with
Slim Chickens
HFA has worked alongside the Slim Chickens Design and Construction Teams, collaborating to create prototypes that are cost-effective and timeline conscious while maintaining the look and feel that loyal customers have come to know and love.
Integration Our clients value the benefits they receive with HFA as a fully integrated, multi-disciplinary firm. The benefits of effective project coordination, integrated design and team communications help drive your program success. Our restaurant team of architects and engineers work through challenges that may arise in support of your goals and objectives. Additionally, HFA has experienced permitting staff and a civil engineering team dedicated to our restaurant team and know the jurisdictions where we work.
HFA will collaborate with your team to understand your goals and performance objectives in order to make your program a success. Our restaurant team works with numerous developers and franchisees in real world environments, so we understand the need for efficient and cost-effective project delivery.
A look inside
Slim Chickens
HFA provides site analysis + evaluation, restaurant design, kitchen layout, exterior design visualizations required for approval by local jurisdictions, construction documents, permitting + entitlements, and construction administration. Furthermore, the Slim Chickens team has handson experience with Industrialized Construction for restaurants and retail and can help guide you through the design and construction process if you determine that Industrialized Construction is right for you.
Franchising Experience
Bojangles Prototype Management | Industrialized Construction | Roll Out HFA has worked alongside the Bojangles Design and Construction Teams since 2020, and as the program architect, we developed the architecture, MEP, and structural standards for the ground-up prototypes. Our team has created multiple prototype designs based on lot size, preferred kitchen and dining room square footage, and a new DTO (drivethrough only) design. For these prototypes, we utilize traditional stick built, modular, and panelized construction processes based on square footage.
Black Rock Coffee Prototype Design + Development | Roll Out HFA has worked alongside Black Rock Coffee Design and Construction Teams since 2019, collaborating together to create a prototype that is cost and timeline conscious while maintaining the consistency of their community-driven brand experience. Our team provides site analysis +evaluation, restaurant design, kitchen layout, exterior design visualizations required for approval by local jurisdictions, construction documents, permitting +entitlements, and construction administration to franchisees of Black Rock Coffee.
Freddy’s Protoype Design + Development | Retrofit | New Stores Five years ago, our team was approached by a local developer that was also a Freddy’s franchisee, to design a multi-tenant development with a Freddy’s restaurant anchoring the development as the end cap, flanked by two other tenants. Our team took the Freddy’s prototype and provided the client with high-quality construction documents that incorporated their individual design style, ultimately avoiding any potential RFIs that might complicate the construction process. We also built a client-specific REVIT prototype for this client, as well.
Tacos 4 Life Prototype Design + Development | Roll Out From the very beginning of our conversations with Tacos 4 Life, rolling out locations quickly throughout the region was always top-of-mind. Our team partnered with Tacos 4 Life to help make this dream a reality by supporting them through the creation of their first location in Little Rock, AR thanks to value engineering support on the current building design and prototype they were working with. By providing them cost-effective solutions that kept the look and feel they were looking for, they were able to expand at a faster rate, which allowed them to deliver on the motto of giving back meals to those less fortunate for every taco or bowl sold.
Sonic Prototype Design + Development | Retrofit | New Stores Throughout our work with Sonic, we’ve worked on corporate and franchisee restaurant locations, both new ground-up and retro-fitted locations, and each time our team has been careful to keep designs consistent with the prototype, while still incorporating the needs and creativity that franchisees would like to see in their locations. One such Sonic location melded the prototype with new and interesting developments, like a dog park placed front and center at the restaurant, allowing customers to eat on the patio with their families, four-legged family members included.
Kelly King, Assoc. AIA
Larry Lott, AIA
Team Lead
Vice President
479.273.7780 ext 268 kelly.king@hfa-ae.com
479.273.7780 ext 201 larry.lott@hfa-ae.com
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