7th and Chestnut,
Philadelphia, PA.

Mori Moto is a COOL restaurant.  The floor is bamboo.   The glass tables and booths change colors.  And, the food is unbelievable.

When we went into Mori Moto the questions were:

1.  Can you refinish bamboo?
2.  Can you repair the damage?
3.  How often will we have to refinish the wood to keep it beautiful and new?
4.  Will we have to close?

The answers were:

1.  Yes
2.  Yes
3.  We thought the floors would be done every quarter, but the picture on the right was taken 9 months after the work was done, and we hadn't refinished it since.
4.  No.

Mori Moto has great views, but....... back to the wood.  The finish used was semi-gloss.  There was discussion about using high-gloss, but we decided against that.  It is one of the few restaurants in which  high gloss might have looked good , but the semi-gloss gave that "clean" look, while not permitting the finish to be over-bearing.

Especially in restaurants, "newness" is important - some of these restaurants have a life cycle of 3 years.  Restaurant owners are becoming more appreciative of the need to look "new" all of the time, because a lot of the customers each night are new and they deserve the same "wow" impressions that everyone got when the restaurant first opened.

The beauty of SandFree™ is that we can mightily contribute to helping the restaurant look new, without requiring the restaurant to close and sacrifice all of that revenue.

The hardest part of Mori Moto was that, due to the raised platforms, we were almost back to the beginning techniques because we couldn't use the Zamboni on the platforms.