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Restaurants by Design

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The designs of restaurants is non-trivial. Not only must the design be pleasing to the eye and attractive to the customers, but the flow of the workers, the food, and the dirty dishes must work well. The result says this book is that a restaurant must be considered as a theater where the food is the show.

This book illustrates twenty one of the most striking and original designs of recent years. Most of the featured restaurants are in the United States, but all over the US from New York to Las Vegas, to Portland, Oregon. But there are also restaurants from Japan, The Netherlands, France, and Mexico.

Basically this is an idea book that can provide new thoughts on the restaurant you are designing or buying. There is very little description, it is mostly photographs to show what was done in these sites. The pictures and the printing are both excellent and show the state of the art as it exhists in restaurant design.

This book is pretty much over the top. If you are using it for ideas for a small to mid-range restaurant, it won't do you any good. These are million dollar plus restaurant designs of which an experienced interior designer specializing in restaurants can create. I was only looking for some practical ideas and would not have ordered the book had it been discribed better. If you want a coffee-table book, this one fills the bill - otherwise, don't waste your money.