F&B Interior Design

How your food space looks will affect your customers overall dining experience, this seems like a pretty obvious thing to say, but boy have we seen some absolute clangers over the years. Our top tips to planning your F&B spaces correctly are to…

1. Write your menu before you do anything else, then develop a front of house layout plan which obviously aligns to the menu’s dining experience tone.
2. Set your budget, help the designer form a list of can and can’t haves immediately, it saves time and money from the get go.
3. Design for the targeted customer not for yourself, us professional interior designers will embrace your unique selling point and deliver a scheme to deliver your customer expectation.
4. Be bold, create memorable moments such as a stunning threshold entrance, customers go out to eat and want to experience something different from home.
5. Appeal to the targeted demographic, a university coffee shop should look totally different to a waterside tapas bar, seems obvious but people sometimes become creatures of habit.
6. Always consider different genres of lighting, its such an important factor when developing interior design schemes.
7. Be colour smart, and texture savvy, use the branding personality to emphasise where you are and who you want to engage with.
8. Stylish counters and furniture matter, don’t be afraid to give the space a creative edge, but always plan your counter layout with the customer in mind at all times.
9. People shop using their senses, the space must appeal not only to the eyes but also deliver a sensory experience, no draughts or sun in the eye dining spots.
10. Never ever forget the bathrooms, they could make or break the dining experience.