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Feng Shui for Restaurants

Feb 07
Posted by Daniel in Restaurant, restaurant layout, restaurant seating, restaurant tips and advice

I know the title probably caused a few raised eyebrows. I mean, we all know that Feng Shui is used in homes and apartments to improve positive energy and create a more comfortable atmosphere in the living space, but what does that have to do with a restaurant?

Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese art that focuses on using aesthetics to improve the positive energy, or chi, in a space. It tries to bring harmony and balance to an area by using colors, décor, wholesome forms, locations, visuals, and furniture placing.

Despite the fact that we mostly connect Feng Shui with private homes, any place where people spent time can benefit from the calming effects of this ancient Chinese art. Restaurants in particular, with their large traffic of clients, can benefit from implementing a few Feng Shui ideas while decorating and designing the interior.

The following tips are a list of things to keep in mind when trying to implement Feng Shui ideas in your restaurant. In the next posts we will try to go in to deeper details about a few of the ideas.

Colors:

The different colors of the rainbow all have different meanings and we all react to them in different ways. Certain colors will evoke specific emotions or thoughts when seen. Red is a color that excites passion and love and increases appetites. It creates feelings of romance and sometimes lust. Pink is a calm, soothing color that is also associated with love. Yellow is a cheery color that promotes warmth and happiness. However, prolonged exposure to yellow can cause anxiety. (This is why fast food restaurants use red and yellow in their decoration and logos. This causes people to eat more but to leave faster thus promoting to a larger turnover.) Orange strengthens concentration and gives people a creative boost. Blue is a calming color that reflects peace, healing, trust, intellect, and wisdom. Black is not a color associated with depression—it promotes feelings of power, sophistication, modernism, and elegance. Purple evokes feelings of nobility and healing. White represents purity, cleanliness, poise, and confidence. Brown is a color associated with the earth. It represents comfort and health and wellness. Grey is a color that represents precision, clarity, and sharpness. (more…)

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First Time Restaurant Owners: The Importance of Restaurant Layout

Dec 28
Posted by Daniel in restaurant seating

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The restaurant business isn’t one that takes kindly to learning on the fly. Customers are looking for good food and great service. They don’t wish to be guinea pigs and have little patience for ineptness.

First time restaurant owners will thus need to work even harder to give themselves the best chance of being successful because their inexperience puts them at a disadvantage.  A good way to improve those chances is to study the business and then create a checklist. Making sure that everything on that list is completed to their satisfaction and according to proper restaurant protocol, prior to opening the restaurant’s doors to the paying public, is of paramount importance. One of the most important areas that a new owner (or any owner for that matter) will need to focus on is restaurant layout.

A new restaurant owner is likely to feel overwhelmed at fist. This is to be expected. They will have a lot on their plate (no pun intended). Making sure that the restaurant is serviceable and ready to handle customers will require a lot of work. For instance, it will be necessary to find reliable and quality suppliers, hire staff, apply for the necessary licenses and permits.

Designing the restaurant, particularly the restaurant seating layout will be extremely important as well. First time restaurateurs and those without a lot of experience, often don’t pay enough attention to restaurant layout and this is their peril. (more…)

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Restaurant Furniture Design: Get Answers Before Buying

Apr 22
Posted by admin in Commercial Seating

Hotdog stand or French bistro? City or country resort? Lakeside or sidewalk? Covered or open air? Lots to consider when selecting outdoor restaurant furnishings.

Here’s a list of questions you need to have answers to before you make your final decisions:

  • Do you need to haul in your furnishings at the close of business every day, or can your tables and chairs be left outdoors? This may affect your decision on stackable chairs.
  • Are there city codes you must abide by to use that little strip of sidewalk outside your front window—codes that may limit your space, choice of furnishings, and so on?
  • What weather elements must you contend with—dry desert air or humid and tropical? Your locale can impact the materials you select.
  • Need umbrellas? That definitely impacts your table choices.
  • Is your establishment self-serve—and self-clean up—or bussed?
  • Want a casual or elegant look and feel?

These are just for starters. As with all your decision making, do your research. Ask yourself all the questions that will lead you to the smart choices you need to make about your restaurant furniture.

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