Hospitality and Food Outlets
The huge importance of creating the right ambience, for your establishment, be it a resort, restaurant, bar, café or take away food outlet is now widely being recognized. To attract the right customer, to stimulate their senses through images, menus, the right lighting and style of furniture – your design has the potential to influence their decision to indulge.
Designing for this sector has its own set of criteria’s to consider. Apart from all that you need to consider when designing a retail space, (see retail store design) the designer has to consider and have knowledge of food preparation practices, cooking, cleaning and refrigeration equipment and their functions, know health department and regulatory requirements in terms of design and specifications of appropriate construction materials and finishes. Back of house lay out (kitchen, preparation space, behind counter) needs to be functional to minimize time wasting and maximize output, for better customer service and more efficient work handling. Front of house design needs to consider the space from your customer’s perspective such us convenience in ordering, smooth traffic flow and all importantly the ambience.
The added involvement of other service providers in this field of interior design – hydraulic and mechanical engineers, graphic designers, – need a prompt and professional response from us to enable them to integrate their services into the overall project smoothly. Here is where effective communications, prompt response to queries, and a basic knowledge of the scope of the services they provide, helps to ensure a seamless process to make the project a success.
Having in the past 10 years designed for the Coffee Club franchise group more than 14 stores Australia wide, we are able to offer our extensive knowledge of café/ restaurant design to our ever increasing customers in this area.
In this expanding market of great opportunities, some of our clients include:
Savilles – Buthcershops, Pizzacake, Mooz Baaz and Oinks, Café Espresso, Ned’s Deli, Sunshine Kebabs, Café Bella, Pinkenba take Away, Ichiban Japanese Tappenyaki, Ming Court