Jim Smart; A Fan of and Designer of Restaurants

Published: June 4, 2020, 9:18 p.m.

Unlike just about any other industry, restaurants are truly a sum of its parts. Each part needing to fit flawlessly into the others to create the “thing” that draws guests to it and keeps them connected to it for years and sometimes decades. Jim Smart has learned over the years that when creating a restaurant, a hundred things need to go right and another hundred need to go perfectly. Now in the midst of the restaurant industry re-boot as the Covid-19 pandemic seems to be coming under some sort of control, restaurant designers are being tasked with the job of making plexi-glass look and feel sexy among other challenging assignments. The conditions may be changing, the goal remains to make a place look and feel right for the operator and the guests.

Here are some highlights of our conversation;

 

Music : Jason Shaw

Solo Acoustic Guitar

Plantation

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