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“Visual access to kitchen: There is nothing quite like being able to look into a restaurant’s kitchen and watch your food being prepared. The open burners, or the glow emanating from a wood-fired pizza oven, harken back to ancient times and offer a sense of hearth and home. There is also something both reassuring and entertaining about watching a busy kitchen as you await your food. Personally I find kitchens with no visual access disconcerting. Consider whether some visual access to the kitchen from your dining room might further your concept.”
― Daniel Boardman, Your First Restaurant: An Essential Guide – Completely Revised and Updated: How to plan, research, analyze, finance, open, and operate your own wildly successful eatery