Infratech Visionary Anders Lasater and the award-winning team at Anders Lasater Architects have established a thriving luxury residential, boutique retail and hospitality practice. Their solutions maximize the best each site has to offer in terms of views, climate and exposures, for places that offer beautiful, comfortable and welcoming spaces on a personal scale, like at The Hall: Global Eatery in Costa Mesa, CA.

Johnston’s Saltbox is a name synonymous with quality and variety, highlighting the Bay Area's best local artisan products in a family-owned, local neighborhood-style restaurant. Their warm, inviting atmosphere has recently extended to an outdoor dining room in the form of a winter wonderland-esque greenhouse garden tent charmingly called the “Saltbox Bubble Lounge.” You can place your order at the outdoor patio window and sit down at one of their socially-distanced tables to enjoy a cozy mug of locally mulled wine in the beautiful San Carlos, California weather. The tent has recently been retrofitted with several ceiling-mounted CD-Series Infratech heating elements that offer guests the opportunity to dine outside in a vibrant, welcoming and comfortable space — an essential amenity, given today’s emphasis on promoting public health.

Now that restaurants are beginning to reopen in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic closures, social norms and safety guidelines are evolving to promote enhanced public health. Guidelines differ from state to state, but one overarching theme promoted in the National Restaurant Association’s COVID-19 Reopening Guidance is the prioritization of outdoor seating. By adding additional seating in open-air spaces like patios, terraces and even sidewalk areas, restaurants can safely welcome additional guests and maximize income while remaining in compliance with the new guidelines.Â