Kitchen Layout Design Help - BRRRR

[Kayla V.]

I'm kicking off a renovation on a single family home in an A- neighborhood in Akron, Ohio that I plan to BRRRRR. The layout of the main floor is below and I'm struggling with how to update the kitchen. There are five doorways into the kitchen- to the living room, to the dining room, to the basement stairs and driveway access, to the powder room and to the mudroom with backyard/deck access.

There is currently no fridge, a rolling (not plumbed) dishwasher that sits next to the stove and limited cabinets/counter space. 

How would you update this kitchen to rental grade? Tear down the wall between the kitchen and dining room? Reconfigure the powder room to open to the mudroom and somehow use that eat-in space? Other?