Reasons to install flooring slate in your restaurant

What do customers expect from your restaurant? They will certainly anticipate great food if they are to return again, as well as a high standard of service. A good atmosphere counts for a lot, too. However, there are also many things that they won't consciously expect, but that nonetheless have a great impact on the impression that they have of your establishment. 

The right choice of flooring material is certainly vital - for both you and your customers. Have you ever stopped to wonder why so many top restaurants use flooring slate? If you have, the reasons will surely become quickly obvious: there's nothing that looks quite like slate flooring, for a start, with no one tile appearing identical to the next. There's a pleasingly natural and solid look to slate flooring that gives it an instant visual appeal for even the most demanding restaurant-goer.

However, slate tiles are also extremely durable, so they'll continue looking good for many years after the opening of your restaurant. This flooring material is famed for its ability to withstand the most intense foot traffic over a long period of time, while looking no worse for wear. It is even used in outdoor spaces like gardens, such is its ability to fend off the elements, so any customers dragging in dirt from outside should barely be of any concern at all - except to your cleaners!

On the subject of cleaning, little needs to be done on flooring slate once the tiles have been sealed, the minimal maintenance requirements being another reason for so many time-pressed restaurants making this their choice of flooring material. Your establishment could be around for decades, in fact, with no need to replace the floor.

To choose the right flooring slate for your restaurant, however, you'll need to be familiar with the many forms in which it comes. You might opt for calibrated slate that is heavily machined on the reverse to ensure complete smoothness, gauged slate where there is a greater variation of thicknesses, or ungauged slate, where both sides are natural, given that it has only just been hand split.

Selecting the right flooring pattern, too, will be vital for your restaurant. From the Farmhouse and French patterns to the Pinwheel and Opus patterns, there will be one ideal for your own business available from The Natural Slate Company, to say nothing of an infinitely broader range of colours. Contact us today for two free flooring slate samples.

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