Revolving restaurant
The revolving rate varies between one and three times per hour and enables the visitors of the tower restaurant to enjoy a panoramic view without leaving their seats. A revolving restaurant on Florianturm, a TV tower in Dortmund, Germany, was brought into service in 1959.The building remains stationary and the diners are carried on the revolving floor. John Graham, a Seattle architect and early shopping mall pioneer, is said to be the first in the United States to design 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.
Such restaurants are often located on upper stories of hotels, television towers and skyscrapers. A barrel-shaped, but stationary, restaurant on Fernsehturm Stuttgart, a TV tower in Stuttgart, Germany, built in 1956, was noted as the inspiration for the idea of a revolving restaurant. A revolving restaurant is a restaurant on a revolving floorplate.
Graham later also used the technology to build the revolving restaurant still in service at the top of Seattle s Space Needle. .
