The Best Restaurant Flooring Fit for Any Food Industry Facility

Restaurant flooring is part of the décor. But it also needs to comply with strict hygiene and safety standards. In brief, this means that it has to be slip-resistant and easy to clean thoroughly.

As a bonus for you as the restaurant owner, it should handle a lot of foot traffic and last a long time while still looking good.

A Touch of Class

When most people think of epoxy resin flooring, they think of factories, heavy-duty trucks and drums of noxious chemicals piled one on top of the other. What they don’t know is that technology likes beauty too. And beauty with a touch of class.

As John Keats famously wrote: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”. And that is generally the case with terrazzo flooring.

Terrazzo flooring graces the most prestigious venues, such as museums, exhibition halls, theatre foyers, and restaurants. Its coatings give it the shine and the message of pristine glamour perfect for an evening out.

Perhaps your restaurant is more attuned to family fun. If so, it needs something brighter or cheerier than you usually find when enjoying an elegant evening meal.

Terrazzo screed is versatile. With the range of aggregates and finishes available, you can achieve practically any effect you want.

Terrazzo flooring can be steam cleaned at a very high temperature. This makes it perfect for environments where food and footprints need to be removed on a daily basis.

Quartz Flooring

Quartz screed and quartz scatter is another option for restaurant floors.

The many different coloured quartz stones are mixed together with a clear resin liquid to form a screed. It is popular in the food and beverage industry because it has a slip-resistant and hard-wearing surface.

From the Restaurant to the Kitchen

If keeping the restaurant itself clean and accident-free is important, it is even more important that such conditions exist in the kitchen.

Your restaurant’s kitchen will benefit enormously from an epoxy resin floor with coving to minimise grease and grime getting stuck in awkward corners.

Alternatively, we recommend the Ferfa Type 4 multi-layered floor for smaller kitchens where traffic is less intense, which typically uses a series or either epoxy or polyurethane (PU) resin coatings.

UltraSyntec’s polyurethane coatings withstand the effects of different chemicals, substances, and temperatures. The flooring works well with stainless steel drainage systems that help with cleaning, and removal

UltraSyntec Limited can install both your restaurant flooring and your kitchen flooring, and ensure seamless continuity between the two, despite their slightly different functions.

Restaurant Flooring and Dance Floors

Many couples like to go to a dinner-dance. A lot of the time though, you find that the dance floor feels shoddy underfoot, or there is no real dance floor at all.

Advanced resin flooring technology has made epoxy or PU resin good for one more thing: designer dance floors! PU resin screeds naturally have a “springy” feel to them.

Dance floors need to be stylish, comfortable for the feet, and easy to clean. Once again, there’s a range of colours and finishes available to suit your taste and interior decor requirements.

This type of flooring provides a robust surface capable of taking a beating from groups of people dancing the night away. It also withstands the wear and tear that comes from broken glass, and marks from rubber shoe soles.

The dance floor area in your restaurant can be demarcated by a subtle change in design from the dining area. It can also be safe, by being on the same level as the dining area floor.

Preparation Applies Not Only to Food

Consult with our flooring experts about the best method to prepare your existing floor surface in your restaurant and kitchen. Our project management team will consider the materials and work steps to be followed as well as the project planning aspect. We pride ourselves on being able to work around our clients’ schedules.

Very often in the food and beverage industry, we need to complete work over a weekend, or series of weekends. This was the case for a pudding manufacturer who could not disrupt their normal production schedule.

All work is carried out in compliance with the applicable British safety standards.

Environmentally Sound Restaurant Flooring

Much has been made of VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, in the press recently. VOCs from impact indoor air quality. VOCs are emitted as gases for liquids and certain solids, ranging from detergent to building materials.

The good news is that epoxy and PU resin flooring do not emit VOCs.

In addition, specialist seamless flooring such as terrazzo is durable and easy to clean and sanitize. Day-to-day maintenance only requires a mop and a bucket of warm water. Seamless surfaces prevent the growth of bacteria and fungus that flourish in the cracks of tiled and carpeted floors in hotels and restaurants.

It is said that terrazzo has its origins in 15th century Venice where waste chips from marble slabs were mixed with clay as an inexpensive flooring method in ordinary people’s homes. Thus, terrazzo has long been a recycled product. Aggregates in contemporary terrazzo flooring most often contain recycled material sourced locally or regionally.

The Aesthetics of Fine Dining

By virtue of its durability alone, this aesthetically pleasing restaurant flooring option is both popular and practical.

Designers and architects love the creative possibilities resin flooring offers, and so do restaurant owners. Their customers, in turn, appreciate the elegance and obvious cleanliness.

By combining the various types of flooring UltraSyntec specialises in, your restaurant will gain a new lease on life that will last for years. That’s definitely something worth celebrating. Why not give us a call today?