Restaurants, cafes, and hospitality venues combine wet entrance zones, food and drink spills, kitchen grease, and outdoor seating areas that are exposed to weather. Slips in hospitality environments carry both safety and liability risks—particularly for elderly diners and staff carrying hot food or drinks.
Anti-slip surfacing for restaurants focuses on the zones where slips actually occur: entrance thresholds, outdoor patios, steps between dining levels, and the transition between kitchen and front-of-house areas.
Key application areas
- Entrance and threshold zones
- Outdoor terraces and patio areas
- Steps between dining levels
- Kitchen-to-dining transition thresholds
- Toilet access corridors
- Beer garden paths and decking
- External ramps and disabled access routes
Risk factors in hospitality
- food and drink spills on smooth flooring
- rain tracked in through frequently opened entrance doors
- outdoor seating areas exposed to frost and algae
- staff carrying hot food and drinks across wet kitchen floors
- low lighting in dining areas reducing hazard visibility
- customers unfamiliar with level changes and step locations