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Limited-Service, Unlimited Design

What’s driving the design of limited-service restaurants today? Simple yet creative choices seem to be a common theme among these restaurants. Regardless of fare offered, they share intentional, impactful touches for a lasting impression.

2025 Award Winners

rd+d exists to share projects, examples and stories that educate and inspire. When the rd+d awards were launched nine years ago, our team wanted to highlight the projects that made readers proud and impressed our judges. This year’s winners did both! Read on to find out how.

2024 Award Winners

Let’s take a moment and celebrate these fabulous, functional designs judged to be among the best of the best in rd+d’s annual contest.

2023 Award Winners

There’s plenty to celebrate as the restaurant community continues to rebuild and apply important lessons learned over the last several years of upheaval.

Curbing Restrictions

Restaurants are pivoting to offer pickup, delivery and drive-thru during the COVID-19 pandemic. Never before has such widespread upheaval hit the restaurant industry. Dining rooms are closed and many restaurants have shut their doors, not sure when — or even if — they’ll reopen.

How Crack’d Kitchen Launched a Replicable Concept

Crack’d Kitchen & Coffee opened in North Andover, Mass., in March, with the goal of being the first location of several. Justin Alpert, project architect with Phase Zero Design, in Hingham, Mass., worked hard to make this prototype replicable. Here, he discusses how he approached the design and the challenges faced.

Round Table Pizza Debuts New Restaurant Design

Round Table Pizza rolled out a new design in Sacramento, Calif., that upgrades the dine-in experience and supports the chain’s Pizza Royalty branding platform.

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