Case Study: Founding Farmers

New Concept Dev. and Ongoing Management

As the concept developer and ongoing management company for this farm-to-table restaurant, VSAG has created and operates a concept that represents the best of American Family Farmers. VSAG provided full project management services during the development and pre-opening, along with developing all operational aspects including the food menu and complete bar program. The menu focuses on American classics with a modern farmhouse approach and the bar program is a true representation of pre-prohibition mixology at its best.

Founding Farmers has been developed as one of the nation’s greenest restaurants, with a menu that includes fresh, regionally and locally sourced farm produced foods and ingredients, day-to-day operation as a Certified Green Restaurant™ and certification by the US Green Building Council as DC’s first LEED restaurant, and the first LEED Gold upscale-casual, full-service restaurant in the entire United States to receive this recognition.

Founding Farmers has been honored with the following awards:

• 2009 Top 100 Best Restaurants, Washingtonian Magazine, March 2009
• 2009 Readers’ Choice / Best New Restaurant, DC City Paper, March 2009
• Top 50 Best New Restaurant, Travel + Leisure magazine, June, 2009
• 2009 Artini Fan Favorite / Corcoran Gallery of Art, March 2009
• Grand Prize, Restaurant/Casual, 2009 Association for Retail Environments Retail Design Awards
• Project Winner, 2009 Earth-Minded Awards, Hospitality Design Magazine and ASID
• Project Winner, 2009 USGBC National Capital Region Retail Design
• Finalist, 2009 Washington Business Journal Green Business Awards
• Finalist, 2009 Gold Key Hospitality Design Awards, Casual Dining

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