The main goal of a restaurant owner is to serve clients in a convenient yet welcoming atmosphere. Hiring good staff and skilled chefs as well as investing in interior design works and adding quality furniture and tableware are all the key elements of a good restaurant investment. Regardless of your restaurant decor or the food you serve, window blinds should be on your shopping list. Restaurant owners will also love how quality window blinds can reduce electricity and AC bills and make their interior more energy efficient. 

Another benefit is that you can extend the life of your furniture, flooring, and other decorative pieces by protecting them from the harmful UV rays.

So, what are the factors you should consider before installing the right blinds in your restaurant?

1/ Solar protection
One of the quickest ways to ruin a meal is solar glare. A variety of blinds are effective at minimizing sun glare, so your guests will feel comfortable while socializing. Reflective insulating blinds help with light management and temperature control, ensuring a comprehensive protection of your interiors. The more your blinds feature top materials, functionality, and style, the more confident you’ll be about making a smart decision.

2/ Location and Climate
The restaurant location and climate have huge impact on your customer’s first experience. If the customers feel the sun in their face during a meal, it’s almost impossible to focus on the taste of your food. After facing these issues, they may not return. If your dining area is facing south, the sun will enter the space throughout the day. Consider installing a highly reflective blind with 3% or less openness factor that will reduce the solar glare while allowing some light to come in.

3/ Ease of Use for Employees
Your employees are just as important as your customers to your company and should always be your priority. Blinds offer additional benefits to your employees by making them relaxed and focused enough to serve their tables with care. Providing them with user-friendly blinds will help them quickly operate the window coverings to your customers’ preferences. If you’re looking for unique bespoke cordless blinds, our top-down and bottom-up shades will help you manage accordingly the amount of sunlight.

4/ Incorporate Your Brand
You may consider window blinds of neutral hues like white, light-blue, cream and beige so that you can easily incorporate your brand logo. If your restaurant features a certain cozy cultural flare or a bold theme with signature colours, you can make this space stand out by installing lighter roller shades to match your artwork and logo. When looking for light filtering shades, you can opt for vision blinds with a spectrum of hues, including moss and gold.

5/ Enhance your décor
Installing blinds paired with curtains in your restaurant boost its appearance and give a luxury touch to it. You can install curtains tailored to your taste but matching your restaurant’s style. No matter what type of restaurant you have, you are sure to find curtains that will compliment your restaurant’s decor.  However, if the curtains are in reach of kids, they will be tempted to pull on them. Make sure you have curtains hanged with good tracks like Silent Gliss double curtain track or a heavy-duty hand drawn system from Forest.

6/ Maintain Privacy
Whether you are starting a restaurant or already own one, we can fit and install a wide range of privacy blinds. Due to covid restrictions and physical distancing measures in all restaurants, installing privacy blinds as partitions will help protect your customers and boost their safety. Our commercial blinds from Serena 100 ZC range can be designed to meet your specific needs including, child-safety, privacy and establishing physical distancing.

Regardless of your restaurant location or what inspires you, our shading experts will help you choose the right blinds or curtains for your restaurant’s style to add function and personality.