Blog #2 Restaurant Lighting

After our lighting lecture about how different locations and businesses utilize light differently, I began to wonder how my work would use lighting. I decided to eat there one night and I was sat at a table without functioning lights. At first I didn't have a problem, but then after a while my friend complained that he needed a light. I began seeing how when we aren't told where to focus, we begin becoming uncomfortable, as if we're missing something. I started to understand how this light affected the business. If our lights direct our attention to the food, then our other senses are triggered, and we focus on eating. This is something very important to the servers because they want to "flip tables," and get as many people in and out of there, as fast as possible, to maximize profits. The next week, during my break, I took pictures of the table where we ate, and the table we were first sat in. Comparing the two, its easier to recognize the halo-image that the light gives the center grill. In the end it was an amazing meal with great company, and I now refuse to sit at the light-less tables because the lack of light takes away from the experience. I am now the entitled customer that I loathe so much.