Cabrio Structures Makes Outdoor Structures Convertible!
Geek Beat is one of the world’s most recognizable technology news brands, delivering daily tech news, tips, and reviews and a few years ago they featured Cabrio Structures in a video. Check it out! ”With retractable roofs from Cabrio Structures, restaurants can make use of their outdoor patios even when the weather isn’t perfect.”
How to finally use your outdoor patio during high-traffic holidays!
You want to be able to be full to capacity during high-traffic sections of the day like breakfast, lunch and dinner. Naturally. And wouldn’t it be nice to count on your outdoor patio for those high-traffic periods too? All too often, we hear of restaurant owners express dissatisfaction in having little or no control over the availability of their […]
Spring has finally arrived, patios are filling up!
We don’t like empty patios and full restaurants with long lines of hungry patrons. We’ve been there, and it’s not fun. It’s not fun to be the patron with pager in hand, waiting for an empty table. It’s not fun for you, the restaurant owner, knowing that just one day earlier you could seat an […]
Winter Storms Devastate Restaurant Industry
It’s no secret that winter storms hurt the restaurant industry this year. Restaurant patrons across 33% of the country have been reluctant or unable to leave their homes for the better part of 2014, Wade Handson, a principal at Technomic says. As Spring arrives, consumers will reenter the foodservice industry, but January and February have left […]
First in it’s class of retractable patio structures: Crooked Pint thermally separated Cabreeze
I’m writing today about something new and thrilling! You might remember the Thermally Broken or Separated Cabreeze™ blog post a few months ago. It’s the concept that a building can have conditioned space (interior heated and/or cooled space) that can open to the outdoors. Today it’s a real life concept! You might be wondering… inside dining room […]
Outdoor wedding horror stories; tents are for camping and the circus
Recently I was speaking with an events coordinator and he shared a couple tent related horror stories. At his location in NYC, they host a number of weddings. And, as an option, they offer the wedding party the use of a tent. Flapping tent noise. One wedding, the wind was so strong they couldn’t hear the […]
Should I put a garage door on my restaurant?
Some people think an ordinary garage door on a restaurant will be just fine. It’s not. Not only are the exposed rails really unsightly, but also ordinary garage doors simply don’t have the integrity you need to keep your restaurant secure and clean. You’ve seen the “cost cutting” strategy of installing cheap garage doors to […]
What can we do for you?
INCREASE PATIO DAYS. Our ideal client is someone who has an outdoor patio and — because of weather — sometimes needs to turn people away because their patio is unusable. We take your patio and turn it into a 4-season (yes, all year round, 365 1/4th days) aesthetically pleasing place to eat, dance, book bachelorette parties […]
How long will it take for us to have a Cabreeze™?
Today my goal is to answer a common question: ”how long does it take?” The simple answer is 15-32 weeks. (We’ve been averaging 17 weeks to installation.) The more in-depth answer is here: One. When you first meet us at a trade show or by a Google search, it might take you some time to […]
Are you a visionary?
vi·sion·ar·y ˈviZHəˌnerē/ adjective 1. a person with original ideas about what the future will or could be like. ”a visionary leader” • • • Our job gives us the opportunity to meet with a lot of creative people. The hospitality industry alone has its fair share of creative people but restaurateurs take the cake! The nature […]