Originally built to serve 1,100, the renovated dining hall and kitchen now serves over 1,500 students and staff daily.
Location
Kennesaw, Georgia
Completion Date
July 2024
Area and Attributes
Dining Hall:
Removal of all but four pillars (non-load bearing) to make room for more seating.
Addition of built-in perimeter counter-height seating and banquet-style seating in the rear.
New furnishings and reconfiguration to increase the seating capacity.
Sound system, screens, and projector added for various meeting needs of staff, student, and parent groups.
Replacing and reconfiguring all servery furnishings including mainline, salad, sandwich, soup, and beverage. Adding two service lines and switching to self-service (grades 2-12) for faster service.
Panini grill stations added.
Purchase of reusable dishware and new dishwashing station.
Concessions outfitted with new appliances including a pizza oven for use during the lunch service.
Kitchen:
Reconfiguration and addition of prep space.
Replacement and upgrade of 20+year old cooking equipment/appliances. This will improve flavor, texture, and increase volume capacity, as well as production speed.
Adding a refrigeration unit in the loading dock area will create more efficiencies in receiving deliveries and add refrigeration space for advance food prep like marination of meats.
Service Type
Full service architecture and interior design
The TVS Education studio worked with the school to come up with a creative solution to increase capacity in the existing dining hall on the campus without expanding the footprint of the existing Mulkey Building. Mount Paran is an independent K-12 school located in Kennesaw, Georgia. All grades eat out of the dining hall in the Mulkey Building. The project covers a gross square footage of approximately 10,000 sf where the scope of work updated the dining hall itself as well as the concessions, severy, the main kitchen, and the kitchen support spaces. The team was able to complete the design in time for the construction to take place over a single summer and open in time for the fall semester in 2024.
Project Team