Cafés, restaurants & fast-casual

Commercial Food & Beverage Construction in Denver.

From third-wave coffee shops to full-service restaurants, food & beverage TI lives or dies on opening day. We build the kitchens, dining rooms, and bars that operators stake their launch dates on — coordinated around health-department review, hood & grease MEP, and the kind of finish photography that fills the first week of social.
Glass sliding doors opening onto an outdoor terrace with cafe tables and chairs, brick buildings beyond
Who we work with
F&B work

Where opening day is the deadline.

F&B clients live on a different schedule. Marketing has announced a launch. Staff have been hired. Inventory is on its way. The only acceptable handoff is one that lets the operator turn the lights on and pour coffee. Little Owl Coffee opened on schedule because we treated opening day as the only real milestone — every other deadline reverse-engineered from it.

Our F&B work covers cafés, full-service restaurants, fast-casual concepts, bars, and roastery installs. We coordinate health-department plan review, hood and grease-trap MEP, FRP wall coverings, NSF-rated finishes, and the soft layer of finish lighting and millwork that makes the room photograph. Bilingual on-site leadership keeps trades coordinated and the build kind to neighboring tenants.

  • Opening-day scheduling
  • Commercial kitchen & bar MEP
  • Health-department plan review
  • NSF-rated, code-compliant finishes
  • Custom FOH millwork & finishes
  • Photography-grade finish quality
Food & Beverage Project Gallery

F&B projects, delivered.

Featured F&B work from the Ellipsis portfolio. More project detail in the Projects archive — or by request.
Exposed copper pipe lighting track running above a coffee counter with street-facing windows

Little Owl Coffee Shop

A downtown coffee shop tenant improvement built around a single rule: open on schedule, no exceptions. Curved walls, warm wood, and a bar designed to keep the morning rush moving.
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Service within Food & Beverage
How we deliver

Matched to the F&B scope.

Four delivery models, applied to coffee shops, full-service restaurants, fast-casual concepts, and bars.

CM / GC

Construction management and general contracting on hard-bid and negotiated work. Single point of accountability, transparent reporting, no surprise invoices

Design-Build

Construction management and general contracting on hard-bid and negotiated work. Single point of accountability, transparent reporting, no surprise invoices

Tenant Improvement

Construction management and general contracting on hard-bid and negotiated work. Single point of accountability, transparent reporting, no surprise invoices

Preconstruction

Construction management and general contracting on hard-bid and negotiated work. Single point of accountability, transparent reporting, no surprise invoices

Other Property Types
Beyond aviation

The rest of what we serve.

Same delivery disciplines, applied wherever commercial work happens.
Café, restaurant, or fast-casual?

Let's hit your opening day.

Send floor plans and a target opening date. We’ll come back with a real number and a build schedule we’ll hold ourselves to. Text or call (720) 807-9739.
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Public, private, every property type. The full Ellipsis project archive in one view.
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