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Restaurant Ceiling Tiles & Panels for Interiors & Commercial Kitchens

Create the ideal dining ambiance with Rockfon's restaurant ceiling tiles & panels. Our acoustic solutions enhance aesthetics and improve sound quality. Discover more.

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Visual appeal and acoustic performance of restaurant ceiling panels create ambiance

Restaurant ceiling design involves many factors including aesthetics, noise control, fire safety and humidity resistance, energy-efficiency and natural light, mold and mildew resistance, eco-friendly materials and durability.

While aesthetics are key, performance is typically the priority in designing restaurant interiors, commercial kitchens, and food preparation areas

Suspended acoustic ceiling solutions for restaurants are evolving beyond the highly successful drop ceiling grid and tile format. They are changing shapes, hiding their gridlines and adding curves and colors. They are even leaving floating like clouds above the restaurant guests. Whether multifunctional or monolithic, minimalist or inspired by nature, restaurant ceiling ceilings designs are pushing the boundaries of aesthetic creativity and acoustic control.

Recommended Ceiling Tiles & Panels For Restaurants

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Rockfon Sonar®

With the largest selection of edge styles and sizes, Rockfon® Sonar™ stone wool ceiling panels offer optimal design freedom while maximizing performance and occupant well-being impacts.

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Rockfon Alaska®

Rockfon Alaska® ceiling tiles feature high sound absorption, due to its stone wool core, is sag, humidity and fire resistant, and comes in a wide assortment of sizes and edges.

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Rockfon® Cinema Black™

This black acoustic ceiling tile can be used to create a black ceiling to enhance the aesthetics of spaces like theatres and cinemas while providing excellent sound absorption.

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Rockfon® Color-all™

Rockfon® Color-all™ stone wool acoustical ceiling tiles are available in multiple ceiling colors, and have high acoustic absorption and fire performance.

Why stone wool? Harness the power of Rockfon stone wool ceiling tiles & panels.

Optimized Ceiling Solutions for Safer, Quieter, and Hygienic Restaurants

Quiet Dining, Bold Design

Optimizing acoustics in restaurants results in spaces where we can truly enjoy our meal and converse without having to shout over each other. For busy restaurants with high volumes of visitors, high sound absorption is essential. In any restaurant where guests want to be heard and understood, the right ceiling panel can make a big difference.

 

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Enhancing Ambiance, Transforming Space

Restaurant ceiling panels also improve the visual experience by covering exposed ducts and pipes. Finished with light-reflecting qualities, they enhance a restaurant dining room’s aesthetics and ambiance. Using different colors and styles in ceiling designs for restaurants can create a signature, brand look for a restaurant interior.

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Fire safety considerations for ceiling design in restaurants

Fire risks are high in restaurant environments, making fire-resistant ceiling panels a crucial safety feature. According to the National Fire Protection Association, nearly 8,000 restaurant fires occur annually, resulting in $246 million in damages, with 57% linked to cooking equipment. Choosing non-combustible ceiling materials can greatly enhance fire safety, helping protect both property and patrons from potential fire damage.

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Humidity resistance ensures a hygienic food prep area

In naturally damp spaces like kitchens, high humidity can weaken certain ceiling panels, leading to sagging or warping, and creating conditions that promote mold and mildew. For food prep areas, ceilings should resist moisture, inhibit bacterial growth, and be easy to clean to prevent foodborne illnesses. Ceiling panels stable up to 100% humidity are essential for a safe, hygienic kitchen environment.

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Restaurants are extremely energy intensive, using about 5 to 7 times more energy per square foot than other commercial buildings, such as office buildings and retail stores... As energy costs increase, investing in energy efficiency is a great way to protect your business against these rising prices.

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Benefits of Stone Wool Ceiling Tiles

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Durability

Rockfon stone wool ceiling tiles are known for their exceptional durability. The inherent properties of stone wool — coupled with superior sound absorption, moisture and fire resistance — make them a dependable option for commercial projects.

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Occupant Health

Architects and designers specify stone wool ceiling tiles for their occupant health benefits. With excellent acoustical capabilities and support for healthy indoor air quality, our products align with the ever-growing demand for exceptional indoor environments.

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Sustainable Protection

Rockfon stone wool ceilings deliver IAQ support and acoustic comfort, while also featuring a low carbon footprint, geared towards minimizing the environmental footprint of buildings all over the world.

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Visual Appeal & Design Inspiration

With a diverse selection of textures, colors and patterns, Rockfon stone wool ceiling tiles offer simple elegance and extensive design flexibility, including sleek white and vibrant hues, to help bring creative visions to life.

Eco-friendly ceiling products help restaurants meet sustainability goals

Sustainability is an important and growing trend among restaurant operators. A restaurant's sustainability efforts can influence guests' restaurant choices. About half of consumers surveyed by the National Restaurant Association said that a restaurant's effort to recycle can be a factor in where they choose to dine.

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Explore our product range 

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Ceiling Tiles & Panels

Rockfon stone wool ceiling tiles and panels are known for their elegance and performance characteristics - acoustic control, fire protection, humidity resistance, durability and light reflection.

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Islands & Baffles

Rockfon stone wool ceiling baffles & clouds baffles feature excellent sound absorption and offer an aesthetically-pleasing option for open plenum ceiling designs.

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Monolithic Acoustical Ceilings

Rockfon® Mono® Acoustic delivers an innovative monolithic ceiling solution with continual, smooth surfaces that turn your design aspirations into reality.

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Ceiling Grids

Ceiling grids from Rockfon Chicago Metallic® combine trusted performance, easy installation, multiple options & seismic capabilities.

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What we do

We manufacture acoustic ceilings stone wool products, while also providing metal ceiling panels and Chicago Metallic® ceiling suspension grid systems. These are all part of developing effective, architectural ceiling systems.

We are dedicated to making your job easier with ceiling products that are easy to install and that deliver beautiful, comfortable spaces.

Rockfon North America
4849 S. Austin Ave.
Chicago, IL 60638
1-800-323-7164
cs@rockfon.com

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We provide customers with a complete acoustic ceiling system offering, combining sound absorbing ceiling tiles and specialty metal panels with suspension grid systems and accessories.

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