Phoenix and Scottsdale Restaurant Contractor for Construction, Remodels and Build Outs

The Pita Jungle

Nearly 20 Years, 18 Projects, One Restaurant Group

Our work with the Pita Jungle began at the Shea location in Scottsdale in 2005 and has never stopped. Over nearly two decades we have completed 18 projects for the group, 13 for corporate ownership and 5 for franchise owners. The work covers every project type a restaurant group encounters: complete build outs from grey shell at Desert Ridge, Norterra, Arcadia and Flagstaff, conversions of a former Baja Fresh, a Del Taco, a downtown office space and a Tempe bar into operating Pita Jungle restaurants, and remodels of locations that never closed, including a full remodel of the Shea location completed in two weeks of night work with zero lost business days. Two of those locations brought us back for a second remodel, in one case more than a decade after we first built the space. The group has also trusted us with its newer concepts: in 2016 we built Grand Blue, their fish market and restaurant in Scottsdale, and in 2024 we built their new Feta Cowboy concept in Tempe.

Repeat work for both corporate and franchise ownership within the same brand means we know how to protect brand standards while answering to the owner writing the checks.

Breakfast Kitchen Bar, Scottsdale Quarter

A Conversion That Turned Into Three Locations

We demolished the former Coal Burger space at Scottsdale Quarter and converted it into Breakfast Kitchen Bar, a 2,900 square foot full service breakfast concept, completed in 2017 over 10 weeks. The technical challenge was the kitchen exhaust. The grease duct had to run all the way to the roof of a multistory building, and the hood exhaust had to perform properly across that entire vertical run. Getting that engineering right is the difference between a kitchen that works and one that fails inspection. The ownership group has since brought us back twice, for their Desert Ridge and Scottsdale locations. Three builds for the same client is the reference no marketing can replace.

Dog Haus, Scottsdale Quarter

Franchise Build Out to National Brand Standards

We built the Dog Haus at Scottsdale Quarter from an empty grey shell, a 1,600 square foot franchise build out completed in 2019 over 11 weeks to national brand standards. The hardest part of this project was invisible to the customer. The front kitchen required a large amount of equipment above the ceiling in a very small area, and every unit, duct and line had to be planned and coordinated before installation because there was almost no room to spare. Franchise projects run on the franchisor's specifications for finishes, equipment and layout, and we delivered to those standards on schedule.

Wrigley Mansion, Phoenix

A New Bar Inside a Phoenix Landmark

In 2019 we built a new bar inside the Wrigley Mansion, the 1932 landmark sitting on a hilltop above the Biltmore area of Phoenix, and the mansion stayed open to guests the entire time. We sealed off the bar area and worked inside a functioning historic property. Two challenges you never face on a normal job: tying new utilities into systems original to a building nearly a century old, and hauling every load of material uphill to get it there. Work inside an operating historic property requires careful planning, controlled construction and a contractor the owner can trust with something irreplaceable.

Pure Sushi, North Scottsdale

Complete Build Out From Grey Shell

We built Pure Sushi in North Scottsdale in 2006, a 2,500 square foot phase one build out from grey shell completed in 12 weeks: kitchen, sushi bar, dining room, and all of the mechanical, electrical and plumbing behind them. The complication was the site itself. The center was still under construction around us, which meant coordinating every delivery, trade and inspection under the site contractor's and landlord's rules while keeping our own schedule intact. A sushi concept also puts refrigeration and food prep directly in front of the customer, so the front of house has to be built to kitchen standards and still look like the best seat in the restaurant.

Clean Eatz, Scottsdale

National Franchise Concept

We built the Clean Eatz in Scottsdale, a 2,400 square foot national health focused franchise concept, completed in 2024 over 12 weeks to the brand's standards and specifications. The surprise was under the floor: trenching for the new drain, waste and vent lines hit bedrock that had to be jackhammered through, the kind of below slab problem that stalls a project when a contractor has not seen it before. Alongside Dog Haus and our franchise work for the Pita Jungle group, it is part of a franchise track record owners can verify before they ever pick up the phone.