A revolving restaurant is a restaurant on a revolving floorplate. The building remains stationary and the diners are carried on the revolving floor. The revolving rate varies between one and three times per hour and enables the visitors of the tower restaurant to enjoy the panorama of the tower without leaving their seats. Such restaurants are often located on upper stories of hotels, television towers and skyscrapers.

History

Although, a revolving restaurant on Florianturm, a TV tower in Dortmund, Germany, was brought into service in 1959, John Graham, a Seattle architect and early shopping mall pioneer, is said to be the first to come up with the idea of this sort of restaurant when he created La Ronde on top of an office building at the Ala Moana Shopping Center in Honolulu in 1961. Graham later also used the technology to build the revolving restaurant still in service at the top of Seattle's Space Needle.

See also

• List of revolving restaurants

External links

• "Talking About a Revolution"
• The Macton Corporation, the largest manufacturer of restaurant turntables