A new restaurant concept from the owners of Tazza Kitchen is in the works in Scott’s Addition as they wind down their prepared-meals outpost after less than two years in business.

The Big Kitchen closed for business at 1600 Altamont Ave. earlier this year.

Tazza Kitchen owners John Haggai, Jeff Grant, John Davenport and Susan Davenport launched the Big Kitchen concept in 2018, offering prepared meals to pick up and heat up at home.

A Short Pump location of Big Kitchen followed shortly after, and will remain open next to the Tazza location at 3332 Pump Road.

Susan Davenport said the decision to wind down the Big Kitchen in Scott’s Addition was due in part to unexpected growth in their catering business, which it added last fall.

“We just realized (catering) was a better business model for us,” Davenport said.

“We knew that The Big Kitchen in Scott’s Addition as a stand-alone was a little bit of a pilot to test the waters on the prepared meals. We learned a ton, and it was a great experience and our customers really enjoyed it. But in terms of the labor model and minimizing food waste, it made more sense for it to be attached to one of our restaurants.”

Davenport added they’re in the early stages of planning a new restaurant to take The Big Kitchen’s space in Scott’s Addition.

“It will be a new concept, but there are still so many details up in the air. We should have them laid out over the next few weeks,” she said.

The Big Kitchen and Tazza Kitchen’s parent company, The Big Kitchen Hospitality, have a long-term lease on the 6,000-square-foot space with landlord Baker Properties, which bought it for $805,000 in 2016. It also houses the restaurant company’s offices.