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

[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 plu...

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 ...

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