Interview: Better Restaurant Design Through Better Collaboration

On Monday, September 24, Skift Table hosted its first ever Skift Restaurants Forum. The day-long event featured interviews with restaurateurs, technology leaders, operators, and chefs, as well as an audience of over 300 people from across the restaurant industry. In order to address the collaboration that takes place between designers and their restaurant clients, Oliver Haslegrave, the Founder and Director of Home Studios, sat down with collaborator Terry Coughlin, a Director of Operations at Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG). The two men worked together to create Caffe Marchiano and Vini e Fritti in midtown Manhattan. The two restaurants joined an existing third one, Marta, that USHG was already operating across the street to create a "piazza" of sorts, according to Coughlin. Haslegrave and Coughlin were interviewed by Kristen Hawley, Senior Editor for Skift Table. Read More Recaps and Interview Transcripts From Skift Restaurants Forum Skift Table: Hello. Thank you very muc