GANTER recently realised a new Founding-Farmer-Restaurant in Pennsylvania, located in the lively, new King of Prussia Town Center. All restaurants across Farmers Restaurant Group are LEED certified, or in the process of pursuing LEED certification, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. This means that they have been counseled by the U.S. Green Building Council on the greenest and most earth-friendly ways to create and construct the restaurants. It is a complicated, labor intensive, and costly process that begins prior to construction and is usually not complete for a full year after construction. In this challenging process there was a pressing need to work together with an experienced and reliable partner: Our GANTER Team in the USA took over this task and was able to provide the full service from design-engineering of the interior as well as the production of the customized interior fit-out including international shipment and the installation on site. Founding Farmers King of Prussia provides a wide variety in its interior design: Ganter had to use different materials: reclaimed wood in combination with brass and spray painted wood, veneer, steel, glass and tiles, as well as fabric, leather and hardware and although tailor-made materials. The construction and installation of the ceiling made out of reclaimed wood, truly posed a challenge to us. In the whole process, our team had to meet special requirements regarding sustainability, sourcing material locally, reduced shipment and using re-usable materials in accordance with the requirements of a LEED-gold certification. Founding Farmers KOP is a full-service restaurant and bar and offers the First Bake Café and Creamery. The 14.000 square-foot space provides over 300 seats for every occasion: The sweeping second floor offers a great variety of seating landscapes to please any guest. The “cozy nook” is reserved for quiet conversation, the “sun room” suits for a lively meal with friends, the “larder” for the signature Farmers Market brunch buffet, the “barn” for community tables that can hold a crowd and the “bar area” is prepared for any number of cocktails. One of the highlights of Founding Farmers King of Prussia is the private dining room tucked away from the main dining area. The room, called “General’s Parlor”, was designed to provide a truly special experience: The intimate, 25-seat private dining room is perfectly tucked away, yet adjacent to the main dining area: Beyond the custom bar and display wall, you will see a faux bookshelf. With a slight pull you will enter into the private dining room. With expertise and in line with the requirements of a LEED-gold certification GANTER USA managed to complete a new space of the Farmers Restaurant Group in only 4 months. The restaurant group, which operates several Founding Farmers restaurants in and around the D.C. metropolitan area is owned by 42,000 American family farmers that make up the North Dakota Farmers Union (NDFU). In 2005, the union members began to seek ways to bring their bounty directly to consumers. They have made it their mission to unbundle the industrial food chain and serve scratch-made, source-matters food with ingredients that are responsibly sourced that contributes earnings back to family farmers who invest in the restaurants. You will find further photos on our page "References".
