Cluttered lighting is one of the worst ways to illuminate a space, and quality food and efficient service can’t save the ambiance of a dining space ruined by poor lighting, while improper lighting can also change the color of food and make it look bad.

Lighting is not just about illuminating the dining environment, but also about analyzing the business situation, regional characteristics, marketing needs, customer experience and other dimensions of the restaurant space. With the help of lighting design to create a high-quality restaurant space with both comfortable atmosphere and promotion of marketing.

Inspire exploration of the restaurant with the ambiance of light

a. Less is more

Avoid cluttered lighting design and choose to create a comfortable environment with better lighting based on using fewer lights. Improve the efficiency of lamp configuration and reduce waste.

b. Creating a comfortable dining environment

Creating a lighting environment that attracts customers, the dining space should create a comfortable environment through lighting, so that customers can feel the comfortable atmosphere of the dining space before they have not yet tasted the food and generate interest in continuing to stay; attracting attention through lighting, so that some chic ornaments, sculptures or soft furnishings modeling for the customer’s line of sight to provide a landing point, and produce the initiative to take pictures of the desire to hit the card; adjusting the less-than-perfect through lighting Architectural design space, weakening the wall and ceiling imperfections, the right lighting design can instantly enhance the atmosphere of the space; and lighting design details can highlight the level and style of the restaurant, when the lighting details are included in the lens of the diners, the lighting will naturally turn into a part of the restaurant brand promotion.

How to choose light fixtures for your dining space?

In commercial lighting design, the concept of “people-oriented” is gradually being used.

The distribution of light in the restaurant, the level of light, will play a role in the atmosphere of the space at the same time the effect of light can also play a role in stimulating the appetite.

Light not only to meet the basic lighting needs and cultural sentiments, but also to focus on the environment shaping, in the psychological level of the consumer’s emotions play a positive impact, causing visual and spiritual resonance.

1. Color Temperature Options

In the store lighting design, choose the right color temperature of the lighting products is very important, different color temperatures on the atmosphere of the manufacturing and emotional impact is very different:

When the color temperature is less than 3300K, the light is dominated by red light, giving people a sense of warmth and relaxation;

When the color temperature is 3300-6000K, red, green, blue light content accounts for a certain proportion, giving people a natural, comfortable, stable feeling;

When the color temperature is above 6000K, blue light accounts for a large proportion of this environment makes people feel serious, cold, low.

Dining spaces need to create a warm and harmonious light environment, and food is more enticing in a warm lighting environment with a high CRI.

Color temperature and illuminance should be in proportion to the match, that is, high illuminance high color temperature, low illuminance low color temperature. If the color temperature is high, but the illuminance is low, it will make the space look gloomy. There are also in the same functional areas, surfaces and objects, the use of color temperature consistent light source, so that the color temperature of the light environment is uniform.

1. Avoiding Glares

The adoption of anti-glare lamps and lanterns allows customers to feel comfortable in the dining space and ignore the existence of the light itself.

2. Color Rendering of Lamps

Color rendering refers to the true degree of color rendered by an object when it is illuminated by a light source. The color rendering of the light must be selected as a parameter of excellent grade, and the display index is recommended to be greater than 90-95.

When an object is irradiated by a light source with a discontinuous and incomplete spectrum, the color will be distorted to varying degrees.
For full spectrum LED products, the color rendering index is close to 100.(Ra>97, CRI>95,Rf>95,Ra>98)

In the case of anti-blue light, it can create a natural and real lighting environment, keep the high degree of light reproduction, and guarantee the light color rendering, so that the objects present a more realistic and vivid effect.

What should I be concerned about the accent lighting?

Catering space not only satisfy the basic needs of dining, but also need to express cultural concepts with the help of lighting design. Key lighting in the selection of light sources and lamps, in addition to meet the lighting requirements of each area, but also need to consider the combination of restaurant brand tone design and cuisine, flavor, grade, style, atmosphere and coordination of the light environment.

1. Focusing Light

Space design focuses on details, with good accent lighting, so that the light gathered in the place that needs to be illuminated. For example, the dining room table can use chandeliers to illuminate the tabletop, presenting the table setting with care and attention, and becoming the perfect detail to attract diners.

2. Controlling Illumination

Illumination needs to be controlled at 199Lx-150Lx, and the local illumination of the dining table reaches 400Lx-500Lx. On the basis of ensuring that the overall space is adequately illuminated, the light illumination of the dining table area is appropriately upgraded, which will make the color of the dishes more appetizing.

3. Box Lighting

The core of the box lighting is private attributes. Box lighting design should pay attention to weakening the weakness, emphasize the focus. For example, the light source will be pressed down, such as closer to the table on the back is blocked, so that the space above the black and the light around the desktop will form a more distinctive contrast, so that the space is more private.