"Tea with rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar", which used to be called a "seven-year start" for living at home, is often pushed out now-the probability of modern people eating out is getting higher and higher, which is not only related to living in industrial and commercial cities, but also related to the increase of professional women, single population and floating population. Many business people often use restaurants and restaurants for negotiation, entertainment or friendship; It is not uncommon for ordinary migrant workers to eat at food stalls. It can be seen that customers choose different dining spaces according to different dining objects and purposes. For the catering industry, how to create a beautiful dining space is a big problem that can not be ignored.
At present, quite a few large hotels and chain restaurants pay attention to the advice of professional consultants and absorb the knowledge of space design, so as to shape their eye-catching external image and make it easy for consumers to identify. Generally speaking, the owners of small and medium-sized restaurants often ignore the careful planning in advance and are stingy with the payment of large expenses. Only relying on their accumulated experience in creating the March of Pots, Bowls and Pots, they hastily taught space designers to do their homework, and even "improvise" and changed them at will, resulting in a lot of space configuration.
The design of dining space, like the design of other commercial spaces, should be thoroughly investigated and planned in advance.
Generally speaking, the best time for all kinds of business entertainment is lunch and dinner; Some people deliberately choose to have a meeting at breakfast time; Some people like to use the so-called "brunch" or "afternoon tea" time when talking about business; Some people "do sth unconventional or unorthodox" use midnight snack time to sing and relax. It can be said that people are eating and spending at any time 24 hours a day.
In order to meet the diverse consumption motives and needs, "there are hundreds of customers in department stores", and many catering services came into being. Take Guangzhou as an example. There are at least 50,000 restaurants, restaurants and restaurants all over the streets, including local flavors, local cuisines, western cuisines, Japanese cuisines and even Southeast Asian cuisines. It is one of the most developed cities in the world.
The design of dining space should first consider the form and style of operating restaurants. A western-style fast food restaurant in KFC has a simple and unified overall design, which makes people feel brand-new. Even the wallpaper, hanging pictures, dining table and even the waiter's dress color are unified into a plain beige theme, which is extremely harmonious and coordinated. Restaurants serving palace dishes are suitable for Chinese style, red wall palace lanterns and waterside corridors. Western food shops opened by China people are mostly visited by white-collar workers, so it's no harm to have some petty bourgeoisie sentiment, which is elegant and pleasant. As for seafood restaurants, a fishing port or a mountain villa should naturally win by wildness, or fishing nets and bonfires flicker between them, or bamboo hats and brown bream hang on the walls, and thick wooden tables and green bamboo chairs blow against the countryside. What's the matter? A teahouse in Taichung City, Taiwan Province Province is humorously called "tea cheating". An earthen stove was built in front of the shop. In a large iron pot on the stove, there are a bunch of "unlimited supply" shopping cards (seeing off guests) like train tickets; A rail made of sleepers and stones winds through every corner of the shop; The women's toilet is designed to be embedded in a large-scale toilet (meaning that people can live within their means), while the men's toilet uses a petrol tank to fill the urinal (reminding users to "refuel" themselves at any time) ... People who have been to this store will nod and have a good impression.
One of the key points of dining space design should be the moving line part. Because it involves not only the whole process of catering operation, but also the connection between different functional areas, and it also has a considerable impact on service quality and customer feeling. Cantonese cuisine is characterized by strong seafood flavor. Therefore, Cantonese restaurants usually set up a series of glass aquariums in the lobby, which is "preconceived" and shows how fresh the main raw materials of their dishes are; The kitchen is set on the side, but it is also separated by a glass curtain wall, which increases the transparency of the chef's unique operation and satisfies the curiosity and "desire to steal art" of diners. Beipai Hotel likes to set the kitchen in the back and the restaurant in the front, thinking that it is clean and tidy.
There used to be a saying that "the color is delicious". This "color" can also be understood as the background color of culture. Today's customers are highly educated and never satisfied. There are shops that play famous piano music (such as Guangzhou White Swan Hotel); There are also those who play guzheng ancient tunes (such as Hu Paoquan Tea Room in Hangzhou); There are some people who play Chaozhou music (such as Chaozhou Snack Street). They are good at winning strings. Some restaurants in Hong Kong showed the dignity of the Manchu-Chinese banquet, and they even rang gongs and cheered when serving food!
Dining space is a small stage for interpersonal relationships. Generally speaking, people who go to restaurants for rare tooth sacrifices are either a family of three or three or five relatives and friends. Therefore, the tables and chairs used should be smaller and occupy less space. In addition, the slightly crowded crowd space is also conducive to customers staying unnecessarily for a long time. I have been to some restaurants in Hong Kong, and they have set up several telephones in the restaurants to facilitate guests to contact with the outside world. The layout of the bathroom is quite reasonable, and the "exit" is ready before the "import". This is a humanized design, which can avoid the embarrassment of guests in a hurry.
In addition, the consideration of public safety is also a key point in the design of catering industry and even all public places. Fires occur frequently in public places all over the country, often causing casualties and losses. There are many reasons, but the congenital defects in architectural design are hard to escape. In the dining space, gas and fire are everywhere, especially in the shops that operate Sichuan hot pot, Korean hot pot, Japanese teppanyaki and buffet barbecue. A little carelessness, "a single spark can start a prairie fire" will become "live broadcast". Therefore, the design of dining space must put the word "safety" in the top priority. No matter the choice of fire-proof building materials, the distance between dining tables, fire-proof facilities, and the moving lines and markings of escape exits, there must be no negligence. Of course, this design is not monotonous. There is a tea shop in Taoyuan City, Taiwan Province Province, which hangs the escape rope from the mezzanine on the second floor to the ground, creating an interesting and changeable space. This store once held a rope climbing competition, and those who can climb to the second floor will be given a free extra-large cup of black tea. This shop not only promotes the idea of saving life, but also provides a place for urbanites to vent their energy.
In a word, diet has always been a major demand in human life, especially delicious Chinese food, which is world-famous. If we can study the dining environment, decoration, hygiene and various services besides the quality of dishes, so as to obtain a more scientific, artistic and humanized dining space, we can form a win-win situation of serving the society and expanding the catering industry itself. This is not a beautiful scene. Are the host and guests happy?