What is a revolving restaurant?

Revolving restaurant is a restaurant that is usually located at the top of a high structure and is built on a turntable that causes it to turn slowly and offers guests a panoramic view of the area below. The first revolving restaurant was built in Hawaii in 1961 and similar restaurants appeared throughout the US and other Western nations in the decades that followed. While Western enthusiasm for these restaurants decreased at the end of the 20th century, about the same period began to enjoy popularity in parts of the Middle East, Asia and Africa. To allow all patrons an undisturbed panoramic view, revolving restaurant designers created a unique solution for sitting, windows and lighting for their dining rooms. Usually, these turntables are programmed to complete one rotation over an hour, allowing guests to enjoy full panoramic view during this time without leaving their seats. This relatively slow speed combined with the flow of movementThe turntable prevents most guests from perceiving that they are in motion. Since the central part of the dining room remains in most cases motionless, the service staff must be able to track the location of dinner as their meals progresses.

Architect John Graham designed the world's first revolving restaurant, built in Hawaii in 1961. The concept quickly caught up and in 30 years that followed, revolving restaurants appeared on the top of hotels, television towers and other high structures in the US and other Western nations. At the end of the 20th century, these restaurants became quite common in the West and their popularity has abandoned them so much because many began to consider them an outdated "tourist trap". In about the same period, however, the new revolv countries of the Middle East, Asia and Africa's developing countries began to appear.

so that all patrons do not disturb panoramic outlookThe panoramic views were obliged to revolving restaurant planners to imagine unique design solutions. For example, designers realized that the creation of a graded seating system offered all guests the same view, regardless of their position at the table. Planners were also confronted with lighting problems, because the lights that were too bright reduced the ability to see through the windows, while excessively weak lighting prevented the ability to read the menu or see its food and companions of food. To solve this problem, many revolving restaurants include windows with adapted glazing, which partly corrects undesirable reflections caused by internal lighting.