Best Commercial Planter Ideas for Restaurants and Outdoor Patios
From Italian to Indian to American and everything in between, owning a restaurant comes with some perks like building a rapport with guests, creating employment opportunities, a source of income, and testing some tasty bites. Whether your restaurant has been around for 1 or 30 years, or it’s been a family business for decades, it’s likely undergone some revamping, whether adjusting to seasonal changes or redesigns.
Refreshing your restaurant or outdoor patio can make all the difference for customer satisfaction and curb appeal. However, adding the right, high-quality commercial planter and avoiding traditional concrete planters is key. Continue reading to learn about the best commercial planter ideas for restaurants and outdoor patios so you can get the most out of your landscaping additions.
5 Commercial Planter Ideas for Restaurants & Outdoor Patios
There are plenty of ways commercial planters can complement your building’s aesthetic, acting as visual anchors in your building’s design. However, adding commercial planters to your restaurant or outdoor patio does more than add visual appeal. Below are some of many ideas to use commercial planters around your restaurant or outdoor patio:
Create Privacy Walls
Restaurants often have different areas or zones around the property, including the main entrance, kitchen, waiting area, rooftop bar, outdoor patio, event spaces, and outdoor lounge areas. Some sections require more privacy than others, and most customers opt for quieter areas for dates or business meetings. Adding commercial planters to create privacy walls is a great way to make these spaces feel more intimate without spending a fortune on messy and obtrusive construction.
Creating privacy walls with large commercial planters is easy; you’ll need to define separate zones and create barriers, leading foot traffic to those designated areas. Planters can also help separate outdoor spaces into zones with varying noise levels, creating quieter and louder zones.
Create Elevations
If your restaurant or outdoor patio is feeling a bit dull or like a carbon copy of every other restaurant out there, creating elevations is a great way to make the space feel more dynamic. Adding planters of varying sizes creates different heights, defining spaces and adding architectural elements that don’t require construction and demolition. Adding extra-large commercial planters and other custom commercial planters in unique shapes and designs in varying heights will create a dynamic space with varying elevations, helping you define spaces.
Frame Entryways
Your restaurant relies on passersby and word-of-mouth recommendations for repeat and new customers. Your entryway is the first impression customers get of your space before they’re seated. Therefore, creating a positive first impression is key to appeasing your guests and having them understand your brand. Framing your restaurant’s entryway with commercial planters, whether greenery or pops of color, softens the architecture and creates a welcoming entrance. Adding beautiful, custom planters that frame the entryway also drives guest engagement by encouraging photo opportunities that, if shared on social media, increase your visibility.
Reinforce Your Brand
Unlike traditional concrete planters available at big-box stores and from major retailers, building custom commercial planters allows for customization that you can’t get elsewhere, especially if you build one with PolyMade. Our commercial planters offer complete customization, and we can design the perfect shape or size, ensuring a flawless appearance forever. We can customize your planter to match your brand’s color palette, emblazon your logo, or make large, unique designs that can be shown off indoors or outdoors with lush blooms or greenery inside them. Adding planters with your logo, brand, or signage reinforces your brand and creates tone-on-tone engravings into your pieces for marketing, messaging, or simply to establish a tone for your restaurant.
Improve the Overall Guest Experience
When guests dine at your restaurant or outdoor patio, they want to be comfortable and surrounded by a clean, inviting atmosphere, and adding commercial planters is a great way to improve the overall guest experience for the duration of their stay. Whether a quick bite for lunch or a long business meeting over dinner, guests should always experience excellence, including the beautiful and multifunctional custom planters that surround your restaurant.
Planters influence customer experience in a variety of ways: they add value to your property, attract passersby, strengthen brand recognition, and enhance the customer experience. By planting custom, unique planters around your restaurant or outdoor patio, you’re encouraging guests and customers to post pictures on social media using hashtags or share locations with their followers, positively impacting your business and boosting positive reviews.
Though planters can positively impact your business and guest engagement, you’ll want to choose planters that help plants flourish and add beauty and elegance to your property. PolyMade’s custom commercial planters are a great choice for all restaurants and outdoor patios, recognized for their durability, performance, and customization options.
Why PolyMade Planters?
While there are plenty of commercial outdoor planters to choose from, most of them force a trade-off, offer zero room for customization, or aren’t durable. PolyMade planters are different from the alternatives; they’re made from mold-free custom shapes, install-ready thanks to their lightweight modular design, durable finishes, and customization options no other commercial planter company can offer. Below are just some of the many reasons why choosing PolyMade planters is the best choice:
Each piece is sourced and handmade in the U.S.A.
Custom shapes in unique designs
Weatherproof material that won’t crack or fade
Lower lifetime cost
75-90% less weight than alternatives
No ongoing maintenance like sealing
Durable finishes that offer superior durability, mimicking stone or terracotta
Better root temperature buffering with no heat transfer
Our commercial planters are customized for each client, and we can shape your piece in any size, with any unique design and quantity. Our custom engraving allows you to create an additional level of personalization by adding your company’s logo, signage, or artwork. With the addition of irrigation lines, drip trays, access panels, and forklift channels, the possibilities are endless.
One of our favorite projects was transforming Zaranda Restaurant into a dining space with a custom PolyMade wall that seamlessly integrated form and function. We worked with our client to create a uniquely contoured planter that doubled as comfortable integrated seating that complemented the restaurant’s inviting southwestern atmosphere. Take a look at our guide to commercial planters and our gallery of completed projects for some more inspiration.
Let’s Design Your Custom Commercial Planter Today
PolyMade planters are engineered to withstand harsh climates, fluctuating temperatures, and demanding outdoor conditions while maintaining their strength and visual appeal for years to come. Throughout every phase of your project, our knowledgeable team works alongside you, offering personalized support and expert recommendations.
Our straightforward customization process is designed to make bringing your vision to life simple. We partner with you to determine the ideal size, fine-tune specifications, choose the perfect finish, and ensure every design detail aligns with your project goals. We can make your planter any shape, size, or finish!
Connect with our team to learn how PolyMade’s custom commercial planter boxes can enhance your restaurant or outdoor patio, simplify installation, and create an environment where plants—and properties—thrive.
