Sports arena theme restaurant

Abstract

A sports arena theme restaurant which provides a central floor area surrounded by a plurality of tiers on at least one of which a concourse circumnavigates the central floor area to communicate with a kitchen and a plurality of stairways to provide a restaurant service pattern to seating areas established the plurality of tiers which allows restaurant patrons to view entertainment means from discrete levels above the central floor area.

Description

I. BACKGROUND [0001] A sports arena theme restaurant which provides a central floor area surrounded by a plurality of tiers on at least one of which a concourse circumnavigates the central floor area to communicate with a kitchen and a plurality of stairways to provide a restaurant service pattern to seating areas established on the plurality of tiers which allows restaurant patrons to view sports content delivery means from discrete levels above the central floor area while obtaining a plurality of restaurant services. [0002] Sporting activity brings fans together collectively for the enjoyment of the sports team, the sports players, and the camaraderie of sharing the sporting event. It allows the diversity of a community to come together to rally behind a symbol called the Bobcats sports team or the Sting sports team. Through association with the sports team or a sports player the community can build a regional asset in the brand identity of the regional sports team or in the bran...

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Benefits of technology

[0014] Another significant object of the invention can be to provide sports arena theme restaurant elements which the restaurant patron can associate as corresponding to architectural elements of a sports arena to illicit the feel of a sports arena environment within a sports arena theme restaurant comprising at least a central floor area corresponding to the playing surface within an arena or stadium, a sports entertainment means substantially located in the space bounded by the central floor area corresponding to the players on the playing surface, a plurality of tiers on which seating areas are established corresponding to the tiered seating within an arena or stadium. Additional sports theme restaurant elements can further be provided to facilitate the feel of a sports arena environment including, without limitation, a concourse established on one or more of the plurality of tiers which allows a person to in whole or in part circumnavigate the central floor area in correspondence to the concourses in an arena or stadium, or a viewing partition established between the central floor area and the dining areas established on the plurality of tiers corresponding to the partition established between the playing surface and the seating area of a stadium whether the partition comprises a fence, a wall, a glass panel, netting, or the like.

[0016] Another significant object of the invention can be to divide the dining area of the restaurant established on the plurality of tiers which surround the central space in which the sports entertainment means is located into a plurality of discrete restaurant entertainment zones. Each of the plurality of discrete entertainment zones can be established to allow restaurant patrons seated in a particular restaurant entertainment zone to view sports entertainment content which corresponds to the viewable portion of the sports entertainment means viewable from that particular restaurant entertainment zone. Because the dining area can be established on a plurality of tiers which in whole or in part surround the central space at which the sports entertainment means can be located, a plurality of discrete restaurant entertainment zones can be established in the dining area each having a corresponding viewable portion of the sports entertainment means with each viewable portion of the sports entertainment means capable of delivering sports entertainment content (whether the same similar or different between discrete restaurant entertainment zones) to the restaurant patrons seated in the corresponding restaurant entertainment zone. Providing discrete restaurant entertainment zones allows each restaurant patron a manner of selecting sports entertainment content also selected by other restaurant patrons seated in the same restaurant entertainment zone. Additionally, the sports theme restaurant in accordance with the invention allows the plurality of discrete restaurant entertainment zones to be established without separation by partitions such as walls or panels.

[0018] Another significant object of the invention can be to provide a sports arena theme restaurant having a central floor area surrounded by a plurality of tiers on at least one of which a concourse circumnavigates the central floor area to communicate with a kitchen and a plurality of stairways to provide a restaurant service pattern to seating areas established on the plurality of tiers which allows restaurant patrons to view sports content delivery means from discrete levels above the central floor area while obtaining a plurality of restaurant services.

Problems solved by technology

Even though sports bars and sports restaurants have catered to a large commercial market for many years there remain substantial unresolved problems with conventional sports bars and sports restaurants.

A first substantial problem with conventional sports bars and sports restaurants may be that the architectural elements of the restaurant lack a sports theme.

In any event, the lack of sports theme restaurant architectural elements can result in a failure or a limitation of the conventional sports restaurant to build brand identity with potential restaurant patrons or assist in building brand identity in the regional or national sports team which in turn provides a market for the sports restaurant.

A second substantial problem with conventional sports bars and sports restaurants may be that the architectural elements of the restaurant fail to illicit in restaurant patrons the feel of a sports arena environment.

By limiting the entertainment experience of restaurant patrons to viewing sports activities on a television screen conventional sports bars and sports restaurants can fail to provide sufficient entertainment to draw in a wide demographic of restaurant patrons.

Families which have a limited sports entertainment budget may be unwilling to separately budget time and money for sports restaurant dining and for sports games at an arena.

Another substantial problem with conventional sports bars and sports restaurants may be that the architectural elements of the sports restaurant do not sufficiently separate the seating areas at which restaurant patrons dine from the entertainment area in which the entertainment means are located.

Additionally, drink and dance services of the conventional sports bar or sports restaurant can be difficult to separate from the seated dining services without providing separate floor areas partitioned by walls, which again necessitates the use of distributed entertainment means contributing to the above-described problems.

Yet another substantial problem with conventional sports bars and sports restaurants can be the lack of seating areas within the restaurant configured in restaurant entertainment zones which allows restaurant patrons to be seated in an entertainment zone based solely upon the sports content which can be viewed from the restaurant entertainment zone.

One aspect of this problem can be that conventional sports restaurants are not configured in a manner which allows a first plurality of restaurant patrons to be seated together to watch the Bobcats and a second plurality of restaurant patrons to be seated together to watch the Sting without partitioning the interior space of restaurant.

This limitation of conventional restaurants can result from the conventional provision of televised sports entertainment distributed throughout the restaurant service pattern which, purposefully or by inadvertence, generates a homogeneous entertainment environment which cannot sufficiently differentiate a plurality of restaurant entertainment zones.

This conventional approach further dilutes the entertainment value of the sports content because restaurant patrons having dissimilar sports content interests may be randomly seated in close proximity which can impede development of collective enjoyment of the sports team, the sports players, and the camaraderie of sharing the sporting event Still another substantial problem with conventional sports bars and sports restaurants can be the lack of discrete restaurant value service zones within the restaurant which allows restaurant patrons to pay a discrete fee structure for restaurant services based solely upon location of the seating area selected within the restaurant.

This limitation of conventional restaurants can result from the conventional provision of televised sports entertainment distributed throughout the restaurant service pattern which, purposefully or by inadvertence, generates a homogeneous entertainment environment which cannot sufficiently differentiate restaurant zones to support a plurality of discrete fee structures.

However, these separate venues further frustrate the development of a comprehensive sports theme within the restaurant and teach away from a plurality of fee structures supported solely by a difference in restaurant seating location which more closely approaches the fee structures of an actual sporting event at which it is desirable for the sports fan to pay more as the seating location brings the sports fan closer to the sports action.

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