OMH Nepal · Kathmandu
Restaurant & café interior design
Seating planned around covers rather than around the photograph, and surfaces chosen to survive a service rather than a viewing.
- Typical timeline
- Three to five weeks depending on the size of the room.
- Where we work
- Kathmandu valley, from Lotse Mall, Machhapokhari
What is included
Covers per hour, not chairs on a plan
The seating layout decides your revenue ceiling before you have cooked anything. Bench seating along a wall takes more covers per square metre than loose chairs and is faster to clean between sittings; loose tables flex for large groups but waste the edges of the room. Most rooms want both, and the ratio depends on whether you are doing a fast lunch trade or long evening tables. We ask that first.
Surfaces that survive a service
A restaurant surface takes hot plates, spilled oil and a wet cloth a dozen times a day. Table tops go in high-pressure laminate or a sealed hardwood rather than a veneer that lifts at the edge the first time water sits on it, and the exposed edges are banded and sealed. The bar back and the pass are built for wiping down at the end of service, not for looking good empty.
The service path is a design constraint
The route from kitchen pass to the furthest table is walked several hundred times a night. Where the counter sits, where the till is, whether staff cross the customer flow to reach it — those decisions cost or save your team an hour of walking a shift. We lay out the joinery around the service path and the customer path, and try hard to stop the two crossing.
Areas we cover
We take restaurant & café interior design work across the Kathmandu valley — Machhapokhari, Balaju, Gongabu, New Buspark, Samakhusi, Kalanki, Chabahil, Baneshwor, Koteshwor, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur and the surrounding wards. The workshop is at Lotse Mall, Machhapokhari, Kathmandu, Nepal, so a site visit anywhere in the valley is a short trip rather than a scheduling problem.
Restaurant & café interior design — your questions
Yes — hospitality joinery, room furniture and panelling. Ring the studio with the scope and we will tell you honestly whether it is a size we can do well.
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Tell us about the space
Send the form and we will call you back, usually the same day — or ring the studio. Someone is on the workshop floor around the clock.