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Readers Name Top Restaurant Design Trends of 2025
In a pulse survey fielded in October, restaurant development + design magazine readers were split on what they think will be the top restaurant design trend of 2025.
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What’s One Restaurant Design Trend that Needs to Go Away?
One key theme emerged when readers were asked which restaurant design trend they’d like to see go away.
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Top Aesthetic Trend of 2024: White, Bright, Clean and Transparent
While no one aesthetic dominates restaurant spaces, several design concepts continue to move the needle on the projects.
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The Hole Truth: Shipley Do-Nuts
Shipley Do-Nuts has been selling doughnuts to Americans since 1936.
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The Hole Truth: Duck Donuts
In early spring 2023, Duck Donuts revealed a new shop of the future design prototype, intended to enhance the guest experience, better handle digital and catering orders, and reduce
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Survey Says: Biophilia Top Restaurant Design Trend Post-Pandemic
Biophilic design — bringing the natural world inside — topped the list of aesthetic trends moving the needle on pitches and current projects.
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How the Pandemic Changed Restaurant Design
Are designers thinking about pandemic concerns and trends when designing restaurants today?
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Get Granular: Specifying Restaurant Tables
When plotting the floor plan, designers consider the flow of traffic through the space, fire code compliance and table placement. Depending on the level of service, tables are placed to allow for
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Bring Nature In With Biophilic Design
Bringing the outdoors in for desk- and tech-tethered consumers, designers are embracing biophilic design for its enduring aesthetic appeal and, increasingly, for its well-documented benefits to
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Reader’s Choices: James Staicoff
James Staicoff, IIDA, director of hospitality for Oculus Inc., began his interior design career nearly 40 years ago in St. Louis before relocating to Portland, Ore., in 1992.
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Trends, Tech & Benchmarking: rd+d's Reader Survey
In this first-ever reader survey, rd+d asked subscribers to name the biggest trends and challenges in restaurant development and design in 2019. The survey included a mix of multiple
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Trend: Art in Restaurants
Artwork in restaurants is often an afterthought, added to finish off the space or provide a local flair, but for some restaurants, art is part of the central vision for the space, included in
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Trend: Walk Up Windows
What’s one way to give traditional brick-and-mortar restaurants a shot of food-truck cool? Follow the lead of a growing number of operators adding walk-up windows. Sure, they’ve been around
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Trend: Meat, Up Front
Three restaurants put their dry-aging rooms on display.
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Blurring the Lines between the Inside and Outside in Restaurant Design
The inside and the outside merge at Glass and Vine in Miami, Fla.which was the specific intent of designer Vincent Celano. The owner of
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Color: What's Cool Now
Is the era of authenticity in design finally coming to an end? Will distressed woods, rough metals and muted colors — which served to amplify a collective need for the genuine in a "new normal" —
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The Big Three's New Designs Take in Fast Food
McDonald's, Wendy's and Burger King are pushing new designs and breaking new ground.