F&B Design

A restaurant interior has a harder job than most spaces. It has to attract guests, make them comfortable, support a fast and efficient team, survive daily heavy use, and still feel like your brand. With so many decisions, it's easy to get lost in finishes and furniture and miss the things that decide whether the restaurant works. After designing and building commercial spaces, we keep coming back to the same five factors. Get these right and the rest becomes much easier. Warm

The exterior is the first thing customers see, and the part of a building that takes the most punishment. Sun, heavy rain, humidity, dust, and daily foot traffic all work on it constantly. In a tropical city like Jakarta, the wear is faster than most owners expect. The good news is that most exterior and facilities problems are predictable. They tend to start small, such as a hairline crack, a blocked gutter, or a slightly loose sign, and become expensive only when they're ig

A restaurant can have great food and still struggle because of the space it's served in. Guests may not be able to explain why a place feels uncomfortable, loud, or forgettable, but they feel it, and they don't come back. Most of these problems are predictable, and almost all of them are cheaper to prevent at the design stage than to fix after opening. Here are the 20 restaurant design mistakes we see most often, grouped by where they usually start, each with a practical fix.