If you own or operate a food service establishment, there is no one who spends more time in it and knows the preferred seating spots better than you do. Most restaurant patrons want to avoid high foot traffic areas like near entrances, kitchen and bathroom doors, or by the bar when they are dining in. Other areas, like near windows that look out to busy sidewalks, also tend to be avoided by many.
A LITTLE CHANGE CAN GO A LONG WAY
In an effort to make less-appealing table locations at your food service establishment more appetizing, you may consider changing them up ever so slightly. Here are two easy tips:
1. THINK VERTICAL: One good way to do this is by changing their height. Tables in the bar area or near a door or window can seem more appealing if the table is at a 40” bar height, putting the patrons at eye level with passersby and thus not being looked down on. The same holds true for tables near windows or entrances.
2. REORIENT: Simple things like changing the table’s orientation can help too. Placing tables on an angle–relative to the foot traffic area–avoids patrons from having people walk directly behind or in front of them. Thus, easing discontent about those particular areas of your food establishment.
Observing seating preferences and experimenting with table placement within your food service establishment can go a long with enhancing your customer’s dining experience.
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