How a rollout runs
Five stages, from the sheet to the loading bay. The sample signed in stage two is the piece every later batch is checked against.
- Wave size
- 2 to 6 stores
- Sample to loading
- 6 to 8 weeks
- Sheet fields
- 13 per model
- Spares
- 2% inside the wave
01One: write the sheet
Dimensions, finishes, MOQ, packing and spare allowance, one page per line, each line with a code. This takes a week and saves roughly that week back on every store that follows.
The sheet is written against your prototype drawings, and the drawings get read properly at this stage: a booth run against a wall that is not straight, 780 mm between a table edge and a counter, a door swing that eats a two-top. Those come back marked before a price is given.
02Two: the signed sample
One piece of each line, in the approved finish, signed and photographed against a grey card. It stays in the archive, and a duplicate travels to the brand's office with the first wave.
Wave six is compared with that piece, not with a photograph, which is how a finish holds across three years.
03Three: production runs in waves
Production runs in waves of two to six stores, scheduled backwards from each opening date. Ten stores in one block means a warehouse, a storage bill and a site that cannot receive because the floor is not finished, so the wave size is set by the opening calendar rather than by the machine schedule.
Capacity is booked against the twelve-month opening plan, not against the first order.
04Four: a store number on every carton
Cartons are numbered by store and by zone: D for dining, B for booth, C for counter. The installer opens the dining boxes first because that is the order the room gets built in.
One container per store unless the format is small, in which case two neighbouring cities share a box and each store keeps its own sequence and packing list.
05Five: keep the sheet open
Reorders quote the code. Store fifty-five in 2029 is the same line as store one in 2026, with the same tolerance, and the sample is still in the archive to prove it.
Spares travel inside the wave: two per cent of chairs, two per cent of glides and bolts, and one filler panel per booth run.
?Questions
What do you need to quote a programme?
Store count, opening dates, a floor plan or prototype drawing, and the finish direction. Quantities per zone help but are not essential at this stage.
How long is a wave?
Six to eight weeks from approved sample to loading, if the finishes are standard. Bespoke powder or fabric adds two to three weeks to the first wave, not to later ones.
Can a store be added mid-rollout?
Yes, at the next wave boundary. Changing a wave that has already been cut means re-cutting, and the sheet says so in writing.
Who handles installation?
You do, or your fit-out contractor. We send numbered cartons, a layout drawing and a load plan that matches the order the room is built in.
Send the plan for the next twelve openings
Store count, opening dates and the floor plan are enough to start. What comes back is a wave schedule, a quantity per unit and one sheet with every line on it.