Showing posts with label restaurant furniture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label restaurant furniture. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 February 2018

A New Restaurant Interior Is an Investment

Restaurant owners who aren't sure whether or not they should replace their restaurant interiors should know that if they do, they will be making an important investment. Some of the most successful restaurants will update their interiors relatively frequently. They're aware of the impact that a new restaurant interior will make.

The fact that a heavily used restaurant interior will start to look dirty is already reason enough to get it updated. A dirty restaurant feels unsafe to a lot of customers, and they specifically go to restaurants in order to relax. 




When customers go online to talk about a restaurant, there are certain negative complaints that will come up particularly frequently. They might talk about not liking the food or they might mention that they didn't like the service.

However, they will often say something about the restaurant looking dirty. Dirty restaurants will attract a lot of negative reviews and complaints even if everything else about the restaurant is favorable. Staff members might stay late in order to thoroughly clean an older restaurant interior, and they still won't be able to make it look new. 

A new restaurant interior is also a great investment because of the competition that exists in the restaurant business. There are usually several competing restaurants in town. People often can't decide which one is better, and it's the little things that will ultimately determine where they eat.

If the other restaurants in town have newer interiors, they will often attract more customers right away. Restaurant owners never know when a new restaurant with a shiny interior is going to open up down the street.

You more or less need to be thinking of your competition at all times, and a newer restaurant interior can help. Working with Lindsay Wilson Concepts can help restaurant owners who are interested in making more successful investments. Books like this can help restaurant owners get started, while giving them more of a perspective on these issues. 
Customers absolutely do care about the way a restaurant looks. Restaurant owners who also strongly pay attention to how a restaurant looks will be much more likely to run a successful business. 

Lindsay Wilson Concepts will work with restaurant owners who are interested in making efficient business decisions that will help them in the short-term and the long-term.

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Monday, 11 September 2017

Is It Time To Replace Your Restaurant Interior? Here's How You Can Tell

If you own a restaurant, the day is bound to come when you feel your space is not quite as inviting as it was when you first designed it. We know there are four ways you can take a look around and see if it's time to power up your interiors.

1. Suddenly your furniture is tougher to clean. When you first bought your lattice-back wooden chairs with "pleather" upholstered seat cushions, they looked pretty sharp. But after five years of use, the chairs are beginning to look more like flea market finds, and who is going to enjoy their coq au vin on a second-hand chair? Now's the time to thoroughly clean; possibly restain or paint, and reupholster your chairs. Since cooking is your thing, you will probably assistance from an interior designer to decide what to do with the wood and which fabric to use on your chair seats.

2. Your interior has lost its "shine." If you take a critical eye to the interiors of your restaurant, you will probably notice, if your restaurant is several years old, that the paint has faded and collected dust; the lighting is oh, so dated, and your silverware and place settings never look as sparkly as you wish they would. When you decide that you need a professional designer, you can use this moment to refine each of these elements into a cohesive look that will boost your brand recognition.

3. Your online reviews are dropping. Customers are writing things like,"Although the food was fantastic, the surroundings were so dismal we have stopped eating here." This kind of review is, as they say, a bummer. You could be losing customers solely because your place looks bad. You need help, not in the area of cuisine, but in the realm of interior design.

4. Potential customers are going past your restaurant and straight to your main competitor further up the street. Your best patrons, who came to dine on a regular basis, are no longer supping at your eatery. You must immediately pull out your cell phone and get the inside of your restaurant not just improved, but resurrected. And your only hope is to acquire the aid of an interior design firm that knows what it's doing.

In Australia, that company is Lindsay Wilson's Concepts. We have experience in creating spaces that appeal to and attract customers. While you are waiting for an appointment time, you can see what we're talking about by acquiring LindsayWilson's Concepts New Hospitality Interior Book, which is full of ideas, furniture pieces, and inspiration.