Food-Service Builder · San Diego
Built to Code. Open on Schedule.
The wrong plan set stalls a food business for months. Concept Craft designs and builds commercial kitchens, food trucks, and carts in San Diego to health and building code, so your plans clear review and you open on schedule.
What We Build
What We Build for San Diego Food Businesses
Five food-service build types, one standard of execution — every kitchen, truck, and cart designed to clear review and open on schedule across San Diego.
Commercial Kitchen Construction
When a restaurant build gets delayed, it is almost always the kitchen, the exhaust hood, the gas line, the grease interceptor, the drain layout, the wall and floor finishes. These are exactly the systems the health department and building plan check examine line by line. Concept Craft designs them from the code outward so your approval moves, then builds to match the approved set so inspections pass.
Explore serviceRestaurant Redesign for Fast Permits
Plans get rejected for the same recurring reasons, ADA gaps, zoning conflicts, missing or non-compliant kitchen details. A redesign that anticipates every one of those is a redesign that clears review quickly. That is the entire premise of this service: a redesign engineered to get approved.
Explore serviceFood Truck Builds & Conversions
A truck is not a small restaurant, it is a mobile food facility, and San Diego County's environmental health requirements govern its sinks, water and waste capacity, propane, ventilation, and more. Concept Craft builds to that rulebook from the first sketch, so your unit passes inspection instead of getting parked.
Explore serviceCatering & Mobile Cart Builds
Catering carts and mobile push-carts still fall under mobile food facility requirements, which means handwash, sink, and holding rules apply even in a few square feet. Concept Craft designs every inch around those requirements so the cart is approvable, not just attractive.
Explore serviceTenant Improvements
The economics of a food-service tenant improvement are brutal once the lease is signed, so the goal is a compliant, operating space as fast as the work allows. Concept Craft scopes TIs to get you open, not to linger, turning a shell or former restaurant into a code-compliant, inspection-ready food business.
Explore serviceWhy Concept Craft
Why Concept Craft
Built to City Ordinance & Health Code
Every kitchen, truck, and cart is designed against the health-department and building-code requirements that govern food facilities, from Type I hoods to handwash placement. Compliance is the starting point, not an afterthought.
Permit-Ready Plan Sets, Faster Approvals
We deliver plan sets built for plan check, with the details reviewers look for already in place. Cleaner submissions mean fewer correction cycles and a faster path to approval.
Kitchens, Trucks & Carts Under One Roof
Fixed restaurants, mobile food trucks, and catering carts are different code worlds. We build all three, so you get one accountable team whether you are opening a dining room or vending from a curb.
Licensed, Bonded & Insured
Concept Craft is a licensed, bonded, and insured San Diego builder. Your project is documented, covered, and built by a team that stands behind its work.
Our Process
How We Get Your Plans Approved
Approvals move fast when the plans are right. Here is how we take your food business from concept to open.
Concept & Code Review
We map your menu, equipment, and space against the health and building code that applies before a single line is drawn, so the design is compliant from day one.
Permit-Ready Plan Set
We produce a plan set built for review, ventilation, plumbing, electrical, grease, ADA, and finishes documented the way plan checkers expect to see them.
Plan Check Coordination
We submit and shepherd your plans through plan check, responding to comments quickly to keep correction cycles short.
Build to Inspection
We construct exactly to the approved set so rough and final inspections match the documents and pass cleanly.
Final Sign-Off & Open
We carry the project through final health and building sign-off and hand you a space that is ready to operate.
Proof of Work
Proof: The Farm to Smash Build
Built
The Farm to Smash Build
Concept Craft built the commercial kitchens for Farm to Smash at two locations, Escondido and Point Loma. Two kitchens, two jurisdictions, two health-department reviews, both built to code and brought into operation. That is the test of a food-service builder: not a single showroom kitchen, but repeatable, compliant builds that clear approvals and open for business.
- Licensed, Bonded & Insured
- Built to Health Code
- Permit-Ready Plans
Tired of permit delays stalling your opening?
We design to code first, so your plans clear review and your build stays on schedule.
Where We Work
Food-Service Builds Across San Diego
FAQ
Questions, Answered
Both. We produce the permit-ready plan set, ventilation, plumbing, electrical, grease, ADA, and finishes documented the way plan checkers expect, then submit and coordinate it through approval before building to the approved drawings.
Plans get returned on corrections, ADA gaps, zoning conflicts, missing or non-compliant kitchen details. We design to answer those questions on the page up front, which is what minimizes correction cycles and shortens the path to approval.
Yes. We build fixed commercial kitchens, mobile food trucks, and catering carts, three different code worlds, under one accountable team, so you get one builder whether you are opening a dining room or vending from a curb.
We build across eight San Diego areas: San Diego, La Jolla, Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Encinitas, Point Loma, North Park, and the College Area near SDSU.
Yes. Concept Craft is a licensed, bonded, and insured San Diego builder, so your project is documented, covered, and built by a team that stands behind its work.
Get your food business built right and open on time
From commercial kitchens to food trucks and carts, Concept Craft builds it to code across San Diego.