{"id":2380,"date":"2014-05-09T19:21:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T19:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/spring-has-finally-arrived-patios-are-filling-up\/"},"modified":"2014-05-09T19:21:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T19:21:57","slug":"spring-has-finally-arrived-patios-are-filling-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/?p=2380","title":{"rendered":"Spring has finally arrived, patios are filling up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2381\" alt=\"patio\" src=\"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/patios9.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"308\" \/>We don&#8217;t like empty patios and full restaurants with long lines of hungry patrons. <a href=\"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/our-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">We&#8217;ve been there<\/a>, and it&#8217;s not fun.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not fun to be the patron with pager in hand, waiting for an empty table.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not fun for you, the restaurant owner, knowing that just one day earlier you could seat an extra 20+ people at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>So it feels good to see a patio full of happy, satisfied, loyal patrons.\u00a0The sun is shining brighter and longer each day, and even when that ball of fire sinks below the horizon it&#8217;s warm outside.\u00a0And so your patrons linger over their drinks and dessert, talking and laughing and playing games on your outdoor patio late into the summer evening.<\/p>\n<p>And, because we learn to live in the moment, you can be happy and feel good about today. Your career as a restaurant owner or manager is paying off and you feel what you are doing in life is serving a purpose. You&#8217;re firing on all cylinders;\u00a0your patio is full and your restaurant is full and all is well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And then <a href=\"http:\/\/weather.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weather.com<\/a> announces a week of high winds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Or a rainy spell.<\/p>\n<p>Monsoon season?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe high winds\u00a0<em>and<\/em> rain.<\/p>\n<p>And you think&#8230; if only there was a way to protect my patio from the weather. Like <a title=\"Opening Walls\" href=\"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/products\/opening-walls\/\" target=\"_blank\">walls<\/a> and\u00a0<a title=\"Retractable Roofs\" href=\"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/products\/retractable-roofs\/\" target=\"_blank\">roofs<\/a>\u00a0that open and close.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;docid=7YVGjL_17sf7OM&amp;tbnid=KsOj2i44Nx2RPM:&amp;ved=0CAQQjB0&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonline.com%2Fentertainment%2Fdining%2F96079124.html&amp;ei=CyZtU7P1PMG3yATV5III&amp;bvm=bv.66330100,d.aWw&amp;psig=AFQjCNGbUZ6o3mFZjM1SVQYbb3yvV0olUg&amp;ust=1399748484536778\" data-ved=\"0CAQQjB0\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/entertainment\/dining\/96079124.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.jsonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t like empty patios and full restaurants with long lines of hungry patrons. We&#8217;ve been there, and it&#8217;s not fun. It&#8217;s not fun to be the patron with pager in hand, waiting for an empty table. It&#8217;s not fun for you, the restaurant owner, knowing that just one day earlier you could seat an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,42,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cabreeze","category-design","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}