Supermarket Interior Design

[Matheous-2]

Can any ABr explain current trends in cafe layout within many supermarkets?
One local Asda cafe has a partition extended from the front window of the store which is just a draughty four foot high with, of course, no roof and adjacent to the main front entrance with automatic double doors (2 sets) -these quite naturally are almost constantly open with a massive throughput of customers.
Is this a secret policy to make lunch patrons uncomfortably cold so you don't sit there too long?
Today, I was in an M&S internal cafe which was not dissimilar to Asda. After about five minutes I literally was shivering and really quite happy to get back to my warm car. Why design these like this?
No need to mention, the food doesn't stay warm for too long either!

[albaqwerty]

Haven't come across any outdoor/roofless supermarket cafes in my area (west of Scotland), if they did, they'd be laughed out of town or washed away!

Maybe they design them this way to convince themselves and customers that folk should consider themselves continental? :-)

[boxtops]

No idea - it's not like our Morrisons, which is by the front door to attract people in, but is reasonably warm.

[Matheous-2]

Just to clarify....I am talking about INDOORS!

[Matheous-2]

The roof is the height of the building..

[mccfluff]

just thinking about the supermarket cafe's near to me

1/ asda - to the right of the doors and far enough away i doubt you would fee a draught
2/ sainsburys - upstairs
3/ M&S - at the back of the store
4/ morrisons reasonably near the front of the store but the doors are the big revolving ones so i doubt it would get cold in there either

i would say its you - be paranoid

[albaqwerty]

there are 2 entrances to my local morrison's.
If you come in one way, the eatery is on the left and locse to the lifts, through an electronic door.
If you come in the other way, it's on the right hand side, quite far away, past the loos and other offices.

Asda, it's on the left hand side and again, sliding doors to get in and out.

[Matheous-2]

Mcfluff - not paranoid......just freezing!!
For the record- any Morrisons I've been in were perfectly comfortable !

[EDDIE51]

cafes especially supermarket ones do want a fast throughput. The last thing they want is people occupying a table for hours when they are just having a coffee.
I have heard that some have chairs that are intentionally slightly uncomfortable so as to discourage people from staying too long .