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The Layout of Your Spanish Bar

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Bar layout is very important and you must end up with a design scheme that will work with the theme you have chosen for your bar.If you can find a bar that is laid out in a way that supports what you want to do, then obviously that will save you a lot of money in not having to close, lose trade and also pay people to refit your bar, before you can start taking money.

Here is just one example to help illustrate and I’m going to use our bar and restaurant as the example.

We are a food orientated bar/restaurant and we like to be able to run the place with just one member of staff at quiet times of the day so we need the kitchen to be located at the front of the premises for three reasons:

• One person can cook and serve food and drinks easily if they have to. (If the kitchen were to be at the back because of the lack of visibility to the terrace area and the longer distance to walk backwards and forward it would need a minimum of two people at all times to function properly).
• We like our customers to see how we prepare their food and with the kitchen at the front they can see everything easily.
• The aromas coming from the kitchen entice passing people to stop at our bar.

So my tip today is simply to look closely at the layout of a bar and decide weather it will be suitable for the way you wish to run your business.

If you can see that you are going to have to make changes to the layout to achieve what you want, then you must calculate carefully the cost of lost trade due to your bar being closed together with the cost of refitting your bar to achieve the layout you want.

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