5 Businesses That Need Sun Shade Structures
If customer satisfaction remains the top priority for businesses, customer care—ensuring clients feel relaxed, safe, and comfortable—is a close second. After all, your patrons are exchanging hard-earned cash for your goods and services; in addition to the items on their receipts, they hope to receive an enjoyable interaction and experience. There’s more to customer care than polite, knowledgeable team members. You also need an environment that projects a safe, friendly atmosphere. One of the best installations for this are rest areas. These are especially helpful when customers must wait to be served or if they’re spending time at a venue primarily situated outdoors.
And because comfort is a high concern, always bear in mind the weather and its impact on comfort. Whether the foremost predicts high temperatures or precipitation, it helps to have structures that shelter clients as they rest. In this article, PalmSHADE covers the top 5 businesses that benefit from custom-made shade structures—the very kind we design and sell!
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1. Hotels
It goes without saying that comfort is one of the major selling points for hotels. While said comfort mostly concerns interiors (comfy beds, working AC, quality room service, etc.), it helps to include a few outdoor installations. After all, guests enjoy walks and taking in nearby scenery when they’re not lounging indoors or experiencing tourist activities. (You can also increase your hotel’s curb appeal with gardens visible from the street. Photographs on Google Images can help draw customers looking for a place to stay during their visit.) Of course, your visitors are less inclined to spend time outdoors when the ground’s being pounded with oppressive heat and the air’s thick with humidity.
This is where sun shade structures come into play. With these professionally crafted fixtures set over your park benches, walkways, and other recreational spaces, guests will inclined to spend time outdoors. Sun shades also provide another form of eye-catching curb appeal. They help distinguish your hotel from local competitors and may even play a hand in guaranteeing return visits!
2. Restaurants
Restaurants make up another commercial service type that benefits immensely from outdoor comfort. Namely if you have a garden patio where, on generally nice days, guests can dine outdoors. Having outdoor seating also allows you to seat more people without having as big a building to maintain. That said, it helps to have overhead structures to provide relief from the sun’s rays—and the UV rays that come with them. Imagine clients’ discomfort and frustration if you’re having an exceptionally busy day, servers aren’t able to deliver the check right away, and an customer in the outdoor seating area is stuck enduring the heat with no overhead protection? A sun shade greatly reduces the discomfort and makes the wait much more bearable. It similarly allows more a superior dining experience. Sun shades also, similar to the above mentioned hotel situation, helps capture the attention of passersby.
3. Amusement Parks
Spending time outdoors is inherent in amusement parks, so it’s incumbent upon the property manager to provide a comfortable experience for the paying customers. Having shaded areas placed along the various pathways (maybe over benches and picnic tables situated near snack stands and restaurants) allows parents and their children to enjoy a respite from the sun and cool off before moving onto the next attraction.
4. Schools
Commercial sun shades provide tremendous comfort for students at institutions of all kinds. If you manage an elementary school, you need shade for kids on the playground: so that they can take breaks and get out of the sun during recess time; teachers supervising recess likewise need a cool place from which to keep watch. A drinking fountain is a great spot over which to install a sun shade. You can also install shades over playgrounds, swings, and other play fixtures. Besides providing shelter from UV rays, these structures help keep the play structures’ surfaces cool to the touch, helping avoid accidental burns. All of this allows kids to play longer during recess.
If your school is a university, consider installing shades along your pathways and public recreation areas on campus. This way, students can relax and socialize in the shade between classes rather than go home and return later.
5. Retirement Homes
Residents at retirement homes enjoy peace and relaxation, quiet socialization, and beautiful scenery. The best retirement homes feature carefully maintained gardens—lush with flowers and arches and bench-bordered pathways—through which residents can stroll. Of course, you don’t want residents being subjected, without protection, to blistering heat and UV rays. If residents must go out on days like this, they should be afforded the overhead protection of a sun shade structure.
For more information about PalmSHADE’s shade-providing structures, contact our sales team! They can answer all your questions, make suggestions on which shade structure is right for you, and provide a free quote for your project!