Industries Served
Restaurant Flooring in New Orleans
We install restaurant flooring across New Orleans and the metro, for restaurants, cafes, bars and coffee shops. Kitchens get sealed, coved and slip resistant floors, while dining rooms get floors that take chairs and spills.
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What does a restaurant floor have to handle?
This page is for owners and managers planning a new floor or a refit. It covers the health code floor rules and which floors suit each part of a restaurant, then what New Orleans slabs and older buildings add to the plan.
A restaurant is two very different spaces: a wet, greasy kitchen and a dining room that has to look good.
Water, grease and wash downs
The FDA Food Code explains that grading a floor to drain carries liquid waste away quickly and prevents pooling that could attract pests or contribute to problems with pathogens such as Listeria.
Health code details
The Food Code requires floor and wall junctures to be coved and closed. Where floors are cleaned by water flushing, they need drains, a slope to those drains, and coved, sealed junctures. It also bars carpet from food prep areas, walk-in refrigerators, warewashing areas and restrooms. Ask your health inspector which version of the code your restaurant is held to.
Slip resistance for staff and guests
OSHA says that where wet processes are used, drainage must be maintained and dry standing places such as mats provided as far as feasible. The 2010 ADA Standards require floors on accessible routes to be stable, firm and slip resistant.
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Restaurant flooring in New Orleans: floors for kitchens, dining rooms and cafes
Plan one system for the back of house and another for the front.
Urethane cement and epoxy for kitchens
These are the resin options for kitchens. Whichever you pick, ask how it's coved at the wall to meet the Food Code. Sherwin-Williams' epoxy guide notes that smooth resinous floors can become slippery when wet, and that texture is added for skid resistance. See epoxy flooring.
Quarry and porcelain tile
Tile is the other kitchen option, and it also fits restrooms and bar areas. Our tile flooring page compares the choices.
Dining rooms and cafes
Luxury vinyl tile with a wood or stone look fits dining rooms and coffee shops.
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How it works
New Orleans restaurants: humidity, slabs and historic buildings
Older buildings and humid slabs add steps before any new floor goes down.
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Test the slab first
The Department of Energy classes Orleans Parish as hot-humid (climate zone 2A). ASTM's slab humidity standard (F2170) says excess slab moisture can cause debonding and microbial growth under a floor covering.
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French Quarter and older buildings
The Vieux Carré Commission regulates the preservation of French Quarter buildings. If your restaurant is in a historic building, check with the city before major work, and look at the original floor before covering it.
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Patio and courtyard transitions
The ADA Standards allow a vertical change in level of no more than 1/4 inch. Check the step between the dining room and any patio, courtyard or bar area.
How the install fits around service
A kitchen that's down can't serve, so plan the job around service. Settle these points in the estimate.
Closed days
Agree which days the kitchen or dining room is out of use, and book around them.
Zones
Decide whether the kitchen and dining room are done together or one after the other.
Cure before reopening
Get the cure and return-to-service times from the system's data sheet before you set a reopening date.
Handover
Get cleaning instructions so your staff use products the manufacturer allows.
We serve restaurants and cafes across New Orleans, Metairie, Kenner, Gretna and the Northshore (see our service areas), along with hotels and hospitality properties. Ask for a free estimate and tell us the rooms and rough square footage, plus your opening hours.
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