David Snook finds that there is more to good venue design than just location.

WHAT’S the old saying? The three principal rules in any commercial venture - the success of which is based upon footfall - are location, location and location.
Undoubtedly true but a close second to the importance of exposing the venture to the passing public must be keeping them once they are tempted in. And that depends upon several factors: the décor, the climate control, the comfortable environment, the equipment, the food and beverage, the management, the staff. Of them all, arguably, the basic design must be of paramount importance.