When starting your own bar or restaurant, it’s important to take more than just the food and drink into consideration. Since customers are coming to your establishment for the entire experience, it’s important to give them a space which makes them feel at ease.
When designing your business’s space, you have to think about function and design in order to make sure that your space functions at its best. Here are some of the most important factors to consider when you start your design process.
Outdoor Seating
Consider whether your customers might enjoy an outdoor seating area where they can enjoy a table in the fresh air. During the summer months, this can be an especially helpful way to lure in more customers. Since people love to enjoy dining or having a refreshing drink in the sun when it’s warm, it can be an excellent feature for your establishment.
When winter rolls around, however, just make sure that your customers stay warm. This could be anything from installing a fire feature to offering them blankets. Otherwise, you may opt to close the terrace outside of warm months.
Color
Choosing the right color for your restaurant is essential. Since color can affect your mood, you want ones that will inspire a celebratory and cozy atmosphere in your business.
Depending on what kind of a mood you want to go for, you may opt for something dark and mysterious, or something upbeat and light.
Lighting
Lighting should play a key role in your design process. You never want to have a glaring overhead light in a place where people are enjoying evening food and drinks. There should be a delicate balance between being dim, yet also providing enough space where people can see their plates.
Going too heavily on one extreme or the other could negatively affect the overall mood that you’re going for.
Music Choice
Choosing the right playlist for your customers is an essential part of setting the vibe. You want to play things which reflect the theme of your menu so that it doesn’t seem out of place. Make sure that you play music which is clear and crisp by using quality speakers.
Never play radio if there are commercials in between songs. If you stream, make sure that it’s an ad-free playlist. The last thing people want to hear while they enjoy a nice meal is a commercial.
Layout
Your tables shouldn’t be too spread out or too close together. They should be in a logical arrangement so that your staff can navigate easily and keep track of orders, and also so your customers feel a certain sense of privacy.
Originally posted on August 22, 2018 @ 4:33 am