overhead. In a big, open dining room, a contemporary chandelier would look great as the focal point. Remember, Ron Group is here to help you customize a contemporary fixture to meet your design specifications, just choose glass shape, glass color, and metal finish and you'll be on your way to the perfect lighting. Does your restaurant have a bar? If so, bar pendant lighting will add just the right glow to fit the mood of your guests who are enjoying a night out on the town.

LIGHTING DESIGN

Lighting design is the essential complement to any interior project. More than a highly technical process, it deftly brings appropriate illumination to the built environment, judiciously incorporating the latest technology to paint spaces with color and clarity..

Restaurant Lighting Ideas

We all love unwinding at a nice restaurant to indulge in good food and hopefully good conversation, but did you ever find yourself attracted to a particular dining establishment because of the way it looks or how it makes you feel? Restaurant ambiance is important because it sets the tone for the overall experience of your meal, and proper lighting plays a large roll in creating the ideal environment.

Accent Lighting

Upon entering a restaurant with low light features, patrons can expect to stay awhile, perhaps for a romantic dinner. The dimly lit dining space encourages you to relax. Oftentimes featuring individual overhead fixtures above each table, such as pendant or drum pendant lights, to make you and your friends and family feel isolated from the rest of the guests. As if you have the whole place to yourselves! This is also achieved thanks to accent lighting, which guides the eye to nice artwork or specials menus, but doesn’t necessarily help people see or complete tasks.

Ambient Lighting

Now, think off the opposite restaurant lighting scenario: a fast food establishment. Fluorescent overhead lighting does its job to keep customers alert and energized, and therefore moving along. This type of ambient restaurant lighting functions best in places where people are not planning on staying for long periods of time, as well as restaurants that serve families because well lit spaces provide a sense of safety in that children can be spotted easily. Not all overhead lighting has to be unattractive, however, as there are many fast-casual restaurants as well as cafes that employ the same tactics. Many new fast-casual restaurants use bright overhead lighting in the form of flush or semi-flush options, which are sleek and versatile. Also, cafes often use bright light in conjunction with comfortable seating (and wifi) to encourage energy and stimulation. Their goal, however, is to encourage customers to stay and work, and hopefully purchase more food and drink.

Types of Restaurant Lighting

If you are a restaurant looking to create a certain atmosphere, lighting is crucial; however, deciding when to use low light versus bright light fixtures as well as the types of lighting your establishment should have, can seem daunting. There are many options out there, and it is best to know what kind of lighting your restaurant may need before moving choosing fixtures.

There are three different types of lighting one must consider: ambient lighting, task lighting, and accent lighting.

Ambient light provides the main source of light in a room, allowing people to see and move around comfortably throughout a space. This type of lighting can come from a natural light source such as large windows as well as artificially, from overhead fixtures.

Task lighting allows people to perform tasks such as reading menus or preparing food. This is the most versatile of lighting types, as many different light fixtures can be used to create task lighting depending on the tasks at hand. For example: a restaurant would have task lighting in the kitchen to provide chefs with proper lighting for cooking, however this same restaurant also needs task lighting at the front of the house for its guests. It is important to remember that in some restaurants preparing food can also happen at the table, which would call for more overhead lighting.

Accent lighting, which functions to provide focal points and artistic flare, guiding the eye to dinner specials, art, or down a long hallway. Accent lighting is not vital to completing tasks, but it is beautiful and adds personality to any space.

Lighting a Restaurant

One way to radically improve the way a restaurant environment feels is through lighting. There’s a science to perfecting the lighting in a restaurant, from how it affects the way we perceive the food to the way it can change our mood. According Nation’s Restaurant News, the color temperature of the lighting relates directly to accurate color of the food. Patrons can appreciate more of their meal, literally, if it’s under the right light. Restaurant Lighting Fixtures play an important role in the overall customer experience.

While proper restaurant lighting fixtures might be more costly, it makes the difference between satisfied customers and ones who decide to eat elsewhere. Lighting also helps direct patrons’ focus in a restaurant. In lower or dimmer lighting, restaurants can feel less crowded.

Soft Lighting enhances experience

Using design elements to create smaller spaces in bigger spaces is a cornerstone of every restaurant date night. Patrons pay for certain expectations of quality, not just in the food but in the experience. People want soft, inviting light that does more than hang overhead like stark office fluorescents. It’s theatre, it’s magic, and it’s a subconscious call to the the warm glow of a fireplace that makes patrons feel at home.

Premium lighting is a shortcut to a premium dining experiences. The glow can be accomplished with simple wall sconces that reduce the harsh overhead light in a restaurant. This dim environment is key, because research proves that patrons eat more in low-light conditions. It’s easier to be less immersed and more self-conscious underneath brighter light. Being intentional about the lighting and environment of a restaurant is another way for owners and operators to show how much they care about their patrons. When lighting feels deliberate and in tune with the cuisine and design of the restaurant, it’s easier for patrons to lose themselves in the experience and dig in. Good lighting makes good food even better, and bad lighting can even make food worse. It’s an overlooked but vital element in any restaurant experience.

Floor /Table Lamps

Seascape Lamps offers a huge selection of unique and beautiful commercial floor lamps for your commercial space or hospitality project. With more than 500 color options, you’re sure to find the hotel lighting, lights for restaurants, or lighting for retail that you need. 

Our modern floor lamps are hospitality light fixtures that provide the perfect ambient lighting sought by clients for a variety of environments including hotel rooms, hotel lobbies, hotel hallways, guest room foyers, motels, vacation resorts, restaurants, FOH dining areas, bars, pubs, and retail stores. Our unique designs and custom light creations will suit whatever environment you have that needs contemporary hospitality lighting.

If you can’t find exactly what you’re looking for, Seascape Lamps can also help you design the perfect custom lighting for your space. We specialize in commercial and hospitality light fixtures, and no order is too large or too small.

Modern Ceiling Light Fixtures

At Seascape Lamps, we offer a wide variety of modern ceiling light fixtures for your commercial space. Our custom hospitality ceiling lights blend perfectly in all spaces from restaurant lighting to hotel lighting to retail spaces, and residential dining rooms. We have a variety of commercial ceiling lights, which are 100% fully customized according to your needs. Any color, any size, we can design it to your commercial lighting specifications. With specialize in hospitality lighting and have partnered with some of the biggest hotels and restaurant businesses. We are fully confident we can meet all of your design needs.