Completed Projects




Metal Fabrication - Restaurants

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Anaheim Theme Park Restaurant

After picking up your burger and fries, you might want to think twice about adding all the fixin's. They will be dispensed from this forty year old fuel tank and pump station!

Really it's brand new! Just made to look old and used. This completely custom made fixture is another example of a mixed-media presentation PWI has become known for.

From the front, it is an innocent fuel tank, used, abused, neglected. A closer look will reveal a fully refrigerated base within including Kairak's patented Chiller Pan Assembly. From the rear, this baby is all stainless steel, meeting every food service code there is!

It's the little details that set this operator apart from the crowd. Designer Jim painstakingly directed our artist Javier Tapia to add just the right amount of rust and corrosion to garner that weathered appearance. Note the rusted rivets and edges, the corroded valves and gauges. Robert Holton at One Day Signs added authentic stencils to complete the look.


Anaheim Theme Park

PWI is called upon with regularity to create new and surprising things. Here our client sought an "old fashioned" cash register look for their utilitarian stainless steel drink dispensers. Cast bronze was definitely the look but who could afford it? We fashioned all the elements you see here out of wood and cast urethane products, engineered and assembled them with great care and precision. All parts were then covered with a cold-applied real metal coating of bronze. After curing, all parts were polished with patina accents added last. An enamel clearcoat keeps it all looking great. These drink dispensers look like bronze, feel like bronze, they even smell like bronze because they are bronze! Innovation, another trademark of the PWI experience.

These menu displays, although small at first glance, pack a powerful punch. Beveled glass in the hand-shaped frame with hinged door behind sets off the menu in grand style. The cast scroll leg supports add flair and a little pizzazz. Sprinkle these around your facility and listen to the customer comments.




Grand Lux Cafe - The Venetian Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada

A truly challenging mixed media project with a heavy emphasis on custom metal fabrication. This is a twenty-four hour restaurant covering over nineteen thousand square feet! Designer Rick McCormack of The Cheesecake Factory added detail at every turn of the head.

The Hostess Station greets you with warmly lit Italian glass mosaics. Individual glass tiles, hand applied by PWI artisans. The uprights are heavy stainless steel ribs. The step and top are an exotic marble crafted by American Stone Company out of Houston, Texas.

Next we find a Waitress Wall of similar design. Taller and longer, if provides for an interesting dining room backdrop and divider from the kitchen beyond.

Here is the Buffet Area. Not just any old "help-yerself" counters though. Black Absolute granite tops, genuine leather aprons with hand-stamped gold embossing and Honduras Mahogany casework below. The sneeze guards are a combination of brushed stainless steel, polished chrome and brass and glass panels. All elements crafted and supplied by PWI.


Sweet Tomatoes
Various Locations

Soup, salad, pasta, baked goods, beverages and desserts. All made fresh daily with no limits on how much you can have! Souper service and an unmatched variety in a clean and friendly environment. PWI creates all the interior fixtures for these restaurants all across the country.

Here we see an example of steel sneeze guard posts with a flat black enamel powdercoat paint finish. PWI supplied all the tempered glass panels as well. A custom pan rack of brushed stainless steel and wood on the back wall as well as very custom shelf brackets and a collander rack, can be seen beyond the counter

Universal Music Group
Universal City, California

Simple settee booths until you look closely. There are several of these spaced around the dining room of this very upscale facility. 3/4" thick solid aluminum end panels, laser cut with a finely brushed finish and enamel clearcoat. The end panels appear to be fastened with only the two large spun aluminum "screws" fabricated by PWI.

The "floating" back panels are fully upholstered with a concealed filler at the underside of each. Genuine leather hides hand sewn and stretched over shaped foam padding with integral steel supports. The longest was a full fourteen feet long with no center support!

The seats are again genuine leather, plush coil springs and a blind frame detail to further the illusion of no support. Stainless steel legs below with adjustable feet complete the look. Not your ordinary settees!

 

Sizzler Restaurant
Murrieta, California

Here we see a radical departure from what had become normal for a Sizzler Restaurant. An interesting lay-out and a challenging use of colors and textures.

The "scramble" area featured numerous specialty bars for different types of self-serve foods. The sneeze guards are crafted of brushed stainless steel tubing and polished brass glass channels.

Divider and queuing walls are topped with glass blocks capped by polished stainless steel. Planters of polished brass and stainless steel add color and life to a rather cold element.


Claim Jumper Restaurant
Buena Park, California

A hugely successful specialty restaurant chain with multiple locations in Southern California and across the country. Claim Jumper is known for its generous portions of good quality fare.

The salad bar here reminds us more of a piece of furniture rather than a commercial fixture. Supported by a concrete curb below, turned hardwood feet appear to support the entirety of its girth. Honduras Mahogany details, a stainless steel refrigerated section within, solid surface tops with cold openings, and a sneeze guard above of satin finished stainless steel and polished brass details.


The Watergrille Restaurant
Los Angeles, California

Perhaps one of the finest seafood establishments in greater Los Angeles, The Watergrille Restaurant spared no expense in creating a very impressive interior to match its irresistible catch of the day.

Designed by Hatch Design Group in Costa Mesa, California, the use of uncommon but most interesting Anigre hardwoods and veneers adds to the simple and striking classic design. Lots of curves (which millworkers just love!), black horizontal reveals and small moulding details.

Note the hanging overhead back bar structure. Supported by threaded rods and clevis connectors, the entire assembly appears to just float above the bar.

The bar top is hand shaped Zinc sheet metal, aging nicer and nicer by the minute.




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