You've dreamed of this moment for a long time, maybe all your life, and now the time has come: You are going to open your own restaurant. As someone who has spent nearly all his working life in the hospitality industry, I believe that few professions are as rewarding.

Once you begin to define exactly what your restaurant is going to be, you'll face an incredible number of design choices: the architecture of the room, lighting, paint color, flooring, sign graphics, uniforms, and so forth...and these are just a few of the aesthetic decisions to be made.

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