Well-Designed Restaurant: The Secrets
Have you ever wondered what makes one restaurant more successful than another? Of course, it must have excellent and consistent dishes. However, there is much more that goes into designing a restaurant than just creating the menu items. To design an exciting and engaging experience for the guests beyond their expectations, other details such as sights, sounds and aromas are carefully choreographed together.
Floor Plan
Whether you’re working on a small or large restaurant, your floor plan needs to be well-balanced with separate areas for the entrance, restrooms, kitchen storage dining and bar without appearing cluttered from too much furniture crowding in one area. But, there should also be proper signage and décor to complement the overall restaurant theme. Otherwise, staff will have difficulty servicing guests because of bottlenecks.
Seating
The choice of seats and their arrangement has a direct impact on the guest experience. You can tell right away what kind of restaurant you’re in based off how it looks, like quick-service restaurants generally have casual seating with natural wood tables and chairs while fine dining ones are more intimate with plush fabrics and subdued colors to make guests want to stay longer for dessert or drinks.
Lighting
You can use LED lighting to create the desired ambiance of your restaurant. Lighting is a significant feature of successful restaurant design, and it enhances both décor and food appeal. You can make low or dim lighting more romantic while bright lights are better for an energetic atmosphere. Accent lighting highlights other interior details like art pieces on walls that you want diners to notice first before they order their meals.
Color Choice
Diners can become more relaxed, hungrier and even drinker in a restaurant with the color scheme of greens or browns. In contrast to this, if you want your customers to eat less food but spend longer at the establishment blue-purple colors are recommended for use on interior decorations.
Music
Music plays a subtle, but integral role in setting the overall tone of the restaurant. A study conducted by HUI research found that playing music can increase revenue and encourage diners to order more food; thus expanding their check even further. However, getting it wrong is costly as choosing inappropriate music for your brand can result in loss of sales.
Make sure you are getting the most out of your design during your restaurant Construction.
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