A FREE Webcast - Restaurant Design Trends
Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 1:00 PM (Central)
What’s in? What’s out? What’s promising to shape or reshape how designers think about restaurant projects in an environment in which providing good value and great experiences are mission critical for restaurant brands? An expert panel will answer those and many other questions (including yours) on this hour-long webcast.
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Moderator
Rebecca Kilbreath
Editor in Chief
rd+d Magazine
Panelist
Megan Freckelton
Co-Founder & Interior Designer
FAM Design
Panelist
JoyceLynn Lagula
Associate Principal / Senior Designer / Studio Leader
JCJ Architecture
Panelist
Anita Summers
Principal
The Johnson Studio at Cooper Carry
Panelist Bios:
Megan Freckelton
Megan Freckelton is an interior designer and co-founder of FAM Design, an interior design, interior architecture and creative design studio founded in 2020 and based in Denver, Colorado. Specializing in restaurant and boutique hotel design, FAM Design’s philosophy is rooted in meaningful and creative storytelling, supporting community and executing projects using a positive, collaborative approach. With 19 years of interior design experience,Megan has completed projects in 25 states, with the majority of her clients returning for repeat business.
Kicking off her career as an interiors intern at one of the largest architecture firms in Colorado where she spent 12 years, she eventually became an associate principal, leading the firm’s interiors hospitality department and designing various restaurant concepts, hotel and resort projects. In 2017, Megan accepted an in-house role with Punch Bowl Social, a rapidly expanding national restaurant group recognized by Fast Company as one of the most innovative companies in the world. There, she established and grew a design department to support its growth.Over her eight years working with Punch Bowl Social, both in-house as co-design director, and as a consultant, she helped lead the design of twenty 24,000+/- square foot locations, utilizing $130 million development dollars, with each location embracing varied interior design concepts based on the locale.
Megan is passionate about interior design education and currently sits on the IIDA Rocky Mountain Chapter Student Affairs Committee. She was also on the 2024 NEWH Rocky Mountain Chapter Scholarship committee. With her vastexperience, Megan and her team have a deep understanding of the balance necessary to createdesign-forward environments, while recognizing the importance of an establishment’s operational goals.
JoyceLynn Lagula
Over the course of her 18-year career, largely based in the Las Vegas market, JoyceLynn Lagula has designed, managed and executed a variety of projects across the hospitality, gaming and entertainment sectors and has established herself as an advocate for diverse voices and empathetic leadership in the industry. With work ranging from the renovation of large casino resorts, to the creation of compelling concepts for intimate F&B venues, JoyceLynn’s experience in design, master planning and program management has been influenced by the gaming and entertainment industry’s most notable architects and designers.
Placing a high value on teamwork, collaboration and open-mindedness, JoyceLynn strives to deliver design innovation alongside technical excellence and to develop meaningful and long-lasting relationships with clients. Leveraging her innate sense of curiosity and keen ability to analyze, understand and devise strategies that evolve and extend the storyline of design, she works to inspire her team members to ask better questions, to collaborate more effectively and to delve deeper into the creative process.
In addition to her role on projects, JoyceLynn serves as Studio Leader in the firm’s Las Vegas office. With a practice model that calls for a high degree of collaboration across offices, the Studio Leader role is pivotal to the JCJ’s success in balancing workload, maintaining deliverable quality and keeping the professional growth of the JCJ’s employee-owners at the forefront. JoyceLynn’s approach is to focus on promoting a studio culture that embraces and reflects positivity, teamwork, respect and inclusiveness. In addition to her leadership in Las Vegas, JoyceLynn plays a key role in positioning JCJ within the broader gaming and hospitality industry and helping drive the collective success of the firm and its clients through hard work and dedication to design excellence.
Anita Summers
Anita Summers, Principal of The Johnson Studio, builds trusted relationships across the hospitality, building and design industries. She orchestrates a natural harmony between interiors and architecture and oversees lighting design for the studio. Anita grasps the powerful emotional appeal of a well-lit space. Often partnering with artisans to create exceptional, custom pieces, she transforms a status quo restaurant into a warm and intimate dinner party, causing hushed admiration for the love on the plate and the company at the table. She can equally set a room aflame with bright bursts of sparkly energy that make the possibilities of one evening seem endless. It’s all about the drama. The trick is subtlety, and at this, Anita excels.
Anita Summers has spent her 25 year career working with Bill at The Johnson Studio, where she began her journey as an architect. She was named Associate Principal in 2016 and Principal in 2019. She holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture from North Carolina State University. To see and feel Anita’s talent, visit the rich Rathbun’s, cozy Krog Bar, and opulent Ecco in Atlanta; dramatic Legal Sea Foods in Boston; and luxurious Fearing’s at The Ritz-Carlton, Dallas.
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