The dining room at Chamonix Casino Hotel, with a coffered ceiling, chandeliers and white tablecloths

Case study 01 · Hospitality & gaming · Cripple Creek, Colorado

Chamonix Casino Hotel

Five food and beverage spaces for a 300-room luxury casino resort in Colorado's historic mining district, designed, equipped and installed by Grady's over three years.

Client
Chamonix Casino Hotel
Location
Cripple Creek, CO
Type
Casino resort, 300 rooms
Spaces
5 F&B outlets
Timeline
3 years, phased
Scope
Design, equipment, installation

Project overview

Chamonix set out to bring a Las Vegas-level resort to Cripple Creek, with fine dining meant to draw guests from Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Denver.

The resort opened in stages. Grady's was the foodservice partner for all five of its food and beverage spaces, from the fine-dining kitchen to the employee dining room.

Customer objectives

Open each outlet to a luxury-resort standard, on its own date, while construction continued around it.

Scope of work

Design, equipment and installation for five spaces:

  • Fine-dining kitchen
  • Lobby bar
  • Speakeasy
  • Casino bar
  • Employee dining room
The fine-dining kitchen's stainless cooking suite and combi ovens
Fine-dining kitchen

Challenges

A resort opening in phases means every outlet has its own deadline, and each one has to be ready while trades are still working in the next. All of it in a historic mountain town, far from the warehouses equipment usually ships from.

Grady's solution

Every outlet, its own phase.

Grady's worked with the Chamonix team over three years, designing and equipping each space as its own phase. Equipment was staged in our Pueblo warehouse and released to the site in the order each outlet needed it.

A dark, chandelier-lit bar with mountain views
Bar
Bar seating with plaid upholstered stools
Bar seating

Services provided

Where Grady's carried the project, phase by phase.

How the seven phases work
Services Grady's provided on this project
01DesignGrady'sLayouts for each of the five spaces
02ProcurementGrady'sEquipment for all five outlets
03Project managementGrady'sPhased staging in Pueblo, released outlet by outlet
04Installation coordinationGrady'sInstalled by Grady's

Completed result

Five outlets open across three years of phased construction.

Front of house to back of house

The lobby bar under a ring chandelier
Lobby bar
Cooking line under a full-length exhaust hood
Cooking line
A long dining room with white tablecloths and a coffered ceiling
Dining room
A rooftop terrace with outdoor stainless bar equipment and mountain views
Rooftop terrace

Photos from Grady's project files.

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