SmartDraw includes restaurant floor plan templates to help you get started with your layout and build out your dining room and kitchen area. Create your design easily with drag-and-drop symbols. You don't need to be a designer to create great-looking results. SmartDraw helps you align and arrange everything perfectly. Plus, it includes beautiful textures for flooring, countertops, furniture and more.
You'll get thousands of ready-made symbols for restaurant related fixtures and furniture, lighting, cabinets, and more! Design your commercial kitchen and optimize storage, coolers, work space, sanitation, and more for better efficiency and flexibility.
SmartDraw is easy to work with no matter what other apps you use. You can add restaurant floor plans to:
SmartDraw works hand in glove with most file storage systems. You can save your restaurant floor plan directly to:
There is no need to create a parallel set of common folders and permissions, SmartDraw can just save files directly into your existing set up.
Share your restaurant layout with anyone, even if they don't own a copy of SmartDraw, with a link.
You can also easily export any diagram as a PDF or common image formats like PNG or SVG.
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Design your restaurant and collaborate with your team in real time from anywhere.
Your team can make edits in real time or share feedback, offer suggestions or communicate approval.
SmartDraw makes it easy for your entire team to be on the same page while you design your next big idea.
SmartDraw includes example restaurant layouts and designs you can customize. You'll never be stuck staring at a blank page.
Start with a restaurant floor plan template located under the Floor Plans - Commercial category in SmartDraw.
Draw the walls of your dining room, kitchen, storage areas, and restrooms.
Place doors and emergency exits. Consider sketching the paths for customers and staff to avoid bottlenecks.
Drag and drop tables, chairs, booths, and waiting areas. Test different configurations to balance comfort, capacity, and ADA requirements.
Add cooking equipment, prep tables, refrigeration, dishwashing, and storage. Arrange them to support your workflow.
Add host stands, POS stations, restrooms, and sinks. Consider also adding HVAC elements and any other utilities or fixtures to your layout. SmartDraw lets you place HVAC plans on a separate layer from the rest of your design to avoid conflicts when moving things around on your plan.
Invite clients or team members to give you feedback and work on your restaurant floor plan in real-time. Make notes or even make changes on the fly as a group. Check for spacing, code compliance, and clear routes for staff and guests. SmartDraw is so easy to use, you can make changes in real-time.
Designing a restaurant and creating its floor plan can be challenging, but SmartDraw makes it easy.
SmartDraw comes with many professionally-designed restaurant layouts to help you get started. Choose one to customize or just browse the editable examples for inspiration.
Start customizing by changing the wall dimensions and dragging-and-dropping ready-made symbols for tables, chairs, bars, podiums and other fixtures. SmartDraw also comes with photo-realistic textures so you get great-looking layouts every time.
In addition to restaurant floor plans, you can also make
Start designing your layout by creating zones for dining, service, and kitchen.
When designing a restaurant kitchen, follow the six key rules: create clear work zones, support a smooth flow of food, keep raw and cooked areas separate, meet ventilation and fire-safety codes, ensure an ergonomic layout for staff, and choose materials and placements that make cleaning easy. These principles help kitchens run efficiently, stay compliant, and maintain high food-safety standards.
SmartDraw lets you import a PDF and make it a background image you can sketch over. Add evacuation routes, notes, and more to an existing design.
With SmartDraw, you can change the scale of any drawing at any time. You can flip between standard and metric scales at will. You can also define your own scale if it is not among the standard scales offered.
The best layout for a small restaurant kitchen is one that maximizes limited space, supports a smooth workflow, and keeps staff out of each other’s way. While the exact design depends on your menu and equipment, most small eateries succeed with one of three compact, high-efficiency layouts: the Line (Assembly Line), the Galley, or the Zone layout.
You can easily import photos to create texture or add more detail to any design. You can even import an image of an existing floor plan if you want to draw over it in more detail or make notes to share with your team.
Discover why SmartDraw is the easiest way to design restaurant layouts, dining rooms, and commercial kitchens.