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Façade, signage, and curb appeal
Rooflines, windows, greenery, and selected trees can make the business recognizable for the season without covering its name or menu information.
Christmas lighting for restaurants
Professional Christmas Lighting for Restaurants
Restaurants & Hospitality Groups project request
Request holiday lighting for Restaurants & Hospitality Groups
Share the property, working budget, address, and holiday result you want. HLI will review the site details and follow up with the right next step.
Commercial projects begin at $3,000. HLI confirms the final scope and pricing after reviewing the property.
Restaurant lighting in action
Carry the curb appeal into the guest experience
A coordinated façade, patio, and entrance treatment gives guests a clear seasonal welcome before they reach the host stand, while keeping signs, stairs, railings, and service paths easy to navigate.
Colorful roofline and patio lighting installed around an active restaurant entrance.
Property-specific planning
The strongest restaurant displays support both hospitality and operations
A façade or patio may need to attract attention from the street, while the entry and dining room need materials that still look considered from arm's length. The visual plan should preserve the restaurant's permanent identity, menu and reservation cues, door clearance, host stand, server routes, and emergency paths.
Installation and service are scheduled around deliveries, prep, lunch and dinner, private events, and any landlord restrictions. HLI also identifies where décor will face heat, grease, moisture, cleaning, wind, or repeated guest contact so the right areas and materials can be chosen.
One property, one complete program
Create a connected experience from the first arrival to the final focal point
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Patio and outdoor dining
Overhead light, planters, railings, and focal greenery can add warmth while maintaining server paths, heater clearance, weather protection, and table flexibility.
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Entry and dining interior
A tree, host-area feature, bar detail, or photo moment can set the tone when guest queues, fire clearance, cleaning, and close viewing are respected.
Beautiful through the full season
Keep the property moving and the display looking its best
HLI coordinates design, installation, in-season service, removal, and storage as one complete program, with the property schedule considered from the beginning.
Protect service and delivery windows
Crew access, ladders, lifts, materials, and testing are sequenced outside receiving, prep, high-volume meal periods, and private-event turns.
Keep the brand legible
The holiday palette and density complement permanent signage, exterior lighting, menus, interior finishes, and the restaurant's existing design voice.
Respect heat, cleaning, and food operations
Décor stays clear of cooking exhaust, heaters, open flame, sanitation zones, wet cleaning, and areas where grease or food contact would create a maintenance problem.
Design photos without blocking tables
A guest photo moment receives a defined footprint, lighting direction, queue assumption, and relationship to dining capacity instead of appearing in a leftover corner.
Restaurants & Hospitality Groups planning tools
Move from inspiration to a quote-ready plan
Use HLI's tools to define priorities, compare proposals, and prepare for a more productive property walkthrough.
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Commercial project tool
Commercial Holiday Lighting Project Planner
A step-by-step planning framework for turning an early holiday display idea into a commercial scope that owners, operations, marketing, and vendors can evaluate.
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Commercial intake worksheet
Commercial Holiday Lighting Site Brief
A copy-ready intake worksheet that helps a commercial property organize the information a holiday lighting team needs before design and estimating begin.
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Commercial comparison tool
Commercial Holiday Lighting Proposal Checklist
A practical checklist for comparing holiday lighting vendors and finding the scope differences hidden behind two very different proposal totals.
Restaurants & Hospitality Groups questions
What to know before you request a quote
01Can HLI install without closing the restaurant?
Often the work can be phased before opening, after closing, or between service periods. Share prep, deliveries, private events, landlord hours, noise limits, and areas that cannot be occupied.
02Can patio lighting work around heaters and changing table layouts?
The patio plan should identify heater locations and clearances, umbrellas, awnings, wind, power, drainage, server routes, exits, and the layouts used for regular and private service.
03Can a restaurant group use one look across several locations?
Yes. The group can approve a shared palette and signature elements while each location receives its own plan for architecture, landlord rules, access, and customer flow.
04How quickly can a décor issue be serviced during the season?
HLI includes in-season support and coordinates the visit through the approved contact. Actual timing depends on the issue, access window, location, parts, and seasonal route.
Plan the guest view and the service schedule
Share the restaurant, landlord rules, operating and delivery hours, priority zones, patio conditions, event dates, reveal date, and budget range.