How To Design A Restaurant to Building Code. One of the more popular small businesses that I have worked with are restaurants. The restaurant business, specially for a newbie, poses its own unique challenges and can be quite daunting in the beginning. There are requirements in terms of design, building code and permitting that are very specific to a restaurant project. This post offers advice mainly to business start-ups and small business owners in planning and designing for a small restaurant, specially their first one. A small restaurant, for the purpose of this discussion, are restaurants that have floor areas from 1,000 square foot to 2,000 square foot and has a dining area. The reference in code will be the Alberta Building Code. Here are the items to consider: SEATING The seating and the number of seats is critical to the success of the restaurant. The more seats you have, the more opportunities to generate revenue. To be allowed a c...
