A good light in the restaurant can bring customers both visual and taste enjoyment.

What are the lighting methods of catering? Lighting methods include: general lighting, district lighting, local lighting and mixed lighting. The restaurant lighting mainly adopts three ways: general lighting, local lighting and mixed lighting.

A. General lighting is a lighting way to make the dining environment and dining table illumination uniform without considering local lighting. This is the lighting method often used in restaurants with simple style and relatively popular customers.

B. Mixed lighting is a kind of lighting mode which is composed of general lighting with uniform illumination and local lighting for dining surface. This kind of lighting has a strong sense of hierarchy and forms a lighting space that only belongs to the guests. It is often used in the lighting mode of high-end restaurants.

C. Local lighting: it is a kind of lighting method used to emphasize a specific target. Usually a point or small area. It is often used in bars and cafes. Through local key lighting, people's attention will be attracted to the place with cultural atmosphere and emotional appeal, so as to form a visual interest center and create the bar's own personality.

Light color and color rendering of restaurant lighting

In the lighting design of the restaurant, no matter the illuminance is high or low, it is appropriate to choose low color temperature light source. This is because people are used to working in white and bright light, and form a high frequency breathing and heartbeat body mechanism under this condition. On the contrary, in the evening, people are used to sitting around the warm campfire to communicate and rest. At this time, people will be in a low-frequency breathing, relaxed and comfortable body mechanism. And most restaurants are to create a comfortable and warm dining environment. It is suggested that the catering spotlight should use the light source with warm color. In this way, it will not only form a warm and pleasant atmosphere indoors, but also form a moving picture with the warm light overflowing from the transparent glass window and the lively dining crowd, and attract pedestrians on the road to dine.

In addition to the light color of light source, its color rendering is another important index of interior lighting design. In order to make the color of food and drink realistic, the color rendering index Ra of indoor lighting source for catering should not be less than 80. Because the warm lighting environment with higher Ra value can make food (such as meat and vegetables) more fresh and attractive.