Hospitality environment item and method of assembly

摘要

A hospitality environment item, namely, interchangeable decorative panels that include laminates and their placement on underbar furniture/equipment. The decorative panels may each have their own laminate finish. Flanges attached to the underbar furniture/equipment extend to conceal edges of the decorative panels and extend over a peripheral region of the face of the decorative panel. The decorative panels have holes arranged to allow draw-pull handles to be secured to a drawer/door and a lock to penetrate into the drawer/door. Other decorative panels have holes that allow light to shine through from lights in backsplash sections.

主权项

1. A hospitality environment item, comprising:
a plurality of units each arranged side by side so that neighboring ones have surfaces that face each other, each of the units being an underbar furniture/equipment unit selected from the group consisting of an ice bin with cold plate, an ice bin without cold plate, a blender station with a dump sink, a blender station without a dump sink, a step liquor storage display, a hand sink with soap and towel dispenser, a hand sink without a soap and towel dispenser, a drain board, a storage cabinet, a bar sink, a beer dispenser, a filler board, a filler panel, an equipment stand, a wet waste cabinet, a dry waste cabinet, a wet/dry waste cabinet and an ice bin with soda gun; at least one decorative panel that includes a face bounded by a peripheral edge, the decorative panel having at least one finish selected from the group consisting of laminate, tile, stainless steel, textured stainless steel, bonded metal, solid surface, marble, granite, quartz-based stone, glass, frosted glass, custom graphics, custom logos; retaining means for retaining the at least one decorative panel in a releasable manner to the underbar furniture/equipment unit; concealing means for concealing the peripheral edge of the decorative panel, said concealing means including concealing components that conceal the peripheral edge of the decorative panel; and wherein one of the plurality of units is the step liquor storage display as the underbar equipment/furniture unit, the step liquor storage display having a bottom base, a backwall and two sidewalls extending upright from the bottom base, and a cover having two panels hinged to each other to enable the two panels to swing between folded and unfolded orientations, the cover being positioned in to one of a deployed condition, which closes an open front and an open top of the step liquor storage display with the two panels in the unfolded orientation, and a stowed condition, which places the cover on top of the bottom base bounded by the backwall and the two sidewalls with the two panels in the folded orientation.