PROJECT
Portfolio / Retail / Restaurant

Shake Shack — Palm Desert

Palm Desert, CA
Scope
Retail / Restaurant
Size
3,100 SF
Location
Palm Desert, CA
Project Value
$2.2M
Delivered
2021

Ground-up Shake Shack restaurant in Palm Desert — built to the brand’s national prototype standards with full exterior patio, custom signage, and desert-climate mechanical systems.

Tanco delivered a ground-up Shake Shack restaurant in Palm Desert — part of the brand’s continued California expansion. The 3,100 SF building features the brand’s signature architectural vocabulary: warm wood panels, custom tile, and open kitchen design. Tanco managed full MEP systems, commercial kitchen build-out, drive-through lane infrastructure, and exterior patio construction within the desert climate environment.

Shake Shack’s prototype standards are exacting — every finish, fixture, and equipment specification is tightly controlled by the brand team. Tanco’s thorough pre-construction coordination with the national project management team ensured full compliance with brand standards while_adapting to the site’s unique desert climate mechanical requirements.

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