Renovating your restaurant can have a great effect on your business. Apart from improving the aesthetic appeal, restaurant renovation can also help improve the functionality of your restaurant, thus helping your kitchen and wait staff work with greater efficiency. All these will have a positive impact on your bottom line. In this post, we share six ideas to inspire your restaurant renovation:
Functional kitchens
The kitchen is the epicenter of your restaurant and its ability to turn out high quality meals consistently and efficiently is perhaps one of the greatest factors that determine how successful your restaurant business will be. Typically, kitchen renovations in restaurants tend to be the most expensive part of restaurant renovations because it is in the kitchen where most of the expensive fixtures and equipment are installed.
This means that any renovations done here must be done with precision and care, as changes can be very expensive. You can get great ideas on how to remake your restaurant kitchen from other restaurants but remember that ultimately, you must listen carefully to the chef and his or her staff, as they will be the ones using the kitchen everyday. Some of the ideas that you can follow when designing your kitchen include ergonomic designs where the kitchen is designed around maximizing efficiency or zone style where the kitchen is designed around zones where different operations take place (cutting, mixing etc).
Pleasant bathrooms
Renovating your restaurant bathrooms will follow the same basic principles that would be followed if you were renovating your home. Like everything else, the design must allow for functionality and must take into account ease of use and cleaning over aesthetic appeal. The trick is to find designs that maximize on the functionality while also keeping aesthetic appeal as high as possible. The designs that you settle on can follow certain themes (rustic, chic etc) to improve the aesthetic appeal.
Restaurant windows
As with home windows, any design that you take when doing window renovations must take into account lighting, insulation and functionality. Depending on how much leeway you have in renovating your windows, you can go a totally new look in terms of size and shape or can just replace the windows while keeping form and shape. It is important to remember that the designs you choose will have an effect on insulation, which will have an impact on your heating costs. As such, it is wise to get a professional contractor to assist with the renovations to avoid poor quality work that will end up costing you more down stream.
Floor designs
Like everything else in your restaurant, your restaurant floor must enhance aesthetic appeal, create a warm cozy feel for your customers and at the same time be highly functional. In this sense, the floor must be easy to clean, be made of high quality material that won’t fade quickly and accommodate accidents like spillages that are very likely to happen in a restaurant.
Restaurant interior
When you are renovating your restaurant interior, you have a wide variety of designs, themes and materials that you can use. Wood is popular as it has a warm and inviting feel. You might also go for a modern design and utilize materials like marble to produce a shiny glamorous look. Finally, your design can incorporate a mix of materials such as wood, stone and leather to bring about an earthy and homely feeling to your interior.
Outdoor eating space
Depending on the design of your restaurant, you might have an outdoor eating space. When designing this area, you will be largely guided by the overall design that you have chosen to use with your interior space. You might want to put up railing or barrier if your outdoor sitting space is in a high traffic area. This can also be easily achieved by using by planting flowers in several large flowerpots, which is an inexpensive design that also increases the aesthetic appeal of your outdoor sitting space.