Jerk Junction had grown from its takeaway origins into a dine-in restaurant in Wilmslow before the Trafford Centre marked a return to fast-paced takeaway. The brief was a kiosk that signalled how far the brand had come without leaning on the rustic palette of the dine-in.

The food court came with heavy theming, tight shopfront restrictions and centre-mandated smoke ventilation. We worked with the centre to push the frontage to the limit of what was permitted - opening it up into a walk-in unit rather than the counter-at-front format most tenants take. A bold shopfront with mesh signage conceals the smoke vents behind, lifting the unit's presence well beyond the previous tenant's.

Inside, the core materials of the brand's dine-in style are refined and rebuilt for trade. Corrugated aluminium, cut-face concrete brick slips and polished concrete set an industrial base, lifted by linear LED lighting, hanging planting and blocks of brand green. Stainless steel and quartz at the servery take constant footfall.