Restaurants

June 4, 1963

3,091,815

W. KRAWIEC

RESTAURANTS

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INVENTOR.

WALTER KRAWtEC

BY

ATTOPNEYS

3,091,815

June 4, 1963

Filed Sept. 1, i960

W. KRAWIEC restaurants

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INVENTOR.

WALTER KRAWIEC

BY

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ATTORNEYS

United States Patent Office

3,091,815

Patented June 4, 1963

3,091,815 RESTAURANTS

Walter Krawiec, New York, N.Y.

(33—25 58th St., Woodside, Queens, N.Y.) Filed Sept. 1,1960, Ser. No. 53,556

Claim. (Cl. 20—1)

This invention relates generally to the restaurant art; | more specifically it presents a novel dining room or resr taurant; and in detail it is concerned with a restaurant hav mg a movable dining area.

.While restaurants, or more specifically, eating counters with movable sections are known, their construction is inefficient and serve little useful purpose. For example, one form of such a device consists of a stationary eating’ counter wuh f°°^d continuously moving by on a rotating snelt. One dining at this counter would merely remove me desired, food from a portion of the shelf as it moves by. It will be obvious that this arrangement is impractical. The food if not promptly removed from a 20 shelf will grow cold or stale. Furthermore, there is little re cord of the exact quantity of food consumed by each individual, thus resulting in possible losses. Further^mor®&gt; ‘^he above structure is only effective at relatively small lunch type” counters.

As will appear from the detailed description below this umt is fashioned as to be particularly efficient for use in both small and large dining and restaurant constructions.

It is a cardinal object of this invention, therefore to provide a novel and more efficient dining room construction.

Another primary object hereto is to set forth a kitchen arrangement that will operate at maximum effectiveness even when serving, a relatively large dining area.

. It is another object and accomplishment of the instant invention to efficiently utilize the largest possible area ot a dining room.

Still another object is to provide a dining room which will provide a maximum amount of comfort and permit a maximum amount of service to the users thereof.

A fuither object of the instant device is to eliminate reservation problems in the dining room and to prevent the loss of effective table usage time.

A further purpose of this device is to minimize the distance between the kitchen and each table, thereby per- 45 nutting the waiters to operate at maximum efficiency and synchronization.

An ancillary object of the instant invention is to provide a dining room that may be more easily supervised, and the tempo of which can be regulated and controlled to most efficiently accommodate the service of customers in the dimng room.

^Fhe'^aventl0n Either ^{seeks t0} provide a dining area that will necessarily result in improved and quicker service to all tables and further will eliminate customer insistence as to most favored tables.

The above and other objects are accomplished primarily by providing a cucular dining room floor which can be slowly rotated about a stationary kitchen.

This invention consists in detail of the novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will appear in the following specification and recited in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings m which the same reference numerals indicate the same parts throughout the various figures, and in which: 65 invenrion ^1S * *°^{Ρ Ρ1}“ ^diagrammatic view of the instant invention.

from λ ^{2 iS &amp;} -°? ^{PlaU VieW} °^{f the dining room} amoved from the remainder of the building, with the drive mechamsms illustrated in phantom.

FIG. 3 is a side elevational view of a portion of the “vention taken substantially along line 3—3 or rTUr. 2.

Referring to the drawings which illustrate what may e tor some purposes a preferred embodiment of the inention, there is illustrated generally, a restaurant 10.

will be noted that the details of the reception room 11, hat check room 12, orchestra room 13, cocktail or quick service area 14 are not described in detail since thS lorm may be of standard construction and forms no part of the present invention. Sufficient to say, however that the usual miscellaneous areas of every dining room or restaurant are provided in the usual manner ^{e mam din}ing room, according to this invention noted that tF · ^pr,^{eferably c}i^rcular floor 15. It will be noted that the circular center portion 16 of the floor 15 is separated to accommodate the kitchen as will more fully be explained hereinafter. ^y iSF? ^P,°^rti°ⁿ °^{f the floor 15 is ada}P^ted and emmter Pin i- . ^y .^{Otated in either a} clockwise or kX^rtrS16 ^Ctl°^{n the CeDter Stati0Dary}tuFfoFF^^{5 th}T ’^{S illustrated} one possible apparaioom flSr ^P Th⁰⁵® ^Of t^r°^{tating the} relatively large dining room floor. There is therein shown a plurality of standard motors 17 positioned under the periphery of the dininroom floor 15. Attached to the rotating shafts 18 of each « ^{SUpport 20} “tegrally fastened to the inmg room floor 15. The motors may be electrically rotZF ^{t0 a C}°^{mmon circ}uit to insure that they will afl rotate at a constant speed. It will be seen then that the motors 17 will function to rotate at an even but relative!y slow, rate, the main dining floor Is ^in ^ddFf^al &gt;^{ldIer roIIers 23} may be suitably positioned 0 along the track or along a second track 20α to sunnort the mam weight of the dining room floor 15 ^PP

It should be realized, however, that the above described rang room rotating mechanism is merely shown for exemplary purposes and it will be possible to substitute ' any rotation means therefor. substitute

As illustrated, suitable tables 21 with chairs are conβηη^Ι6ηκ ^sT^ltuated completely around the dining room floor 15. It should _{be noted that the tabks 21}^gmore conveniently and possibly closely spaced than is wffi nnF^Ua1’ ^1Π· F^{34 10Dg walkin}S Paths for the waiters

The primary objects of this invention therefore are ro^Com^mfloJ^ei5^byTh^{he eXpedient of the} dining room floor Is. The customers all enter the dining room .area at one. location 22. They are seated at the^mnrf stoilv roF^{111 P}°^{SItlOn at that} . ^{As the dinill}2 room The rotation ^S’offfi^Ve^Cd-^C°^mmenCeS ’^{n tbe usuaI manner},7;, I I ; . ^{he dlning room} floor 15 is timed and adjusted to coincide with normal eating habits so that ^Pn°^r “ ““ ^lin“ P·· “^IL ··»'« XX^r“^ce “^r“²² ”·'» ”«· x th Jv i¹® ^exemplar.^y embodiment of the invention depicted Χχ· “ »*» X« ice and water facilities 26—service bar 27—registration room 28—bread and butter

29—pantry (appetizers, salads, cold plates etc ) 30—soup and coffee ’ ⁷

31—main course and vegetables

32—coffee bar

3,091.815 that even during peak and rash hours the service will always be at the most efficient tempo. There will be no slowdown of service even when the room is filled to capacity. In most conventional restaurants there will be a bottle-neck and even a slowdown of service during the peak dinner hours. As described above, this can never occur in a dining room constructed in the instant invenIt is, of course, to be emphasized that the objects of the invention previously set forth to wit; more and better service, economy, reduced overhead, etc., are all accomplished by this arrangement. The continuous and flawless service during the peak dining hours has never heretofore been accomplished. .

It will be seen that the essence of this invention is the rotating dining area with stationery tables. Other details were mentioned herein merely for illustrative purposes and not to in any way limit the scope of this invention.

While there are above disclosed but a limited number of embodiments of 'the structure and product of the invention herein presented, it is. possible to produce still other embodiments without departing from the inventive concept herein disclosed, and it is desired therefore that only such limitations be opposed on the appended claim as are i stated therein, or required by the prior art.