Operating under the name Top Food, it has been set up by Gruppo Pasquettaz. Although there are seven restaurants, the food emporium consists of much more, including Butchery, Self Service and Delicatessen as well as Fish Restaurant, Pizza, Steak House, Self Service Fish & Seafood, Risotteria, Bar American and Sandwich Bar.
Director Roberto Pasquettaz wanted background music to be distributed evenly across the seven restaurant zones and satellite TV images to the plasma relay screens - but wanted local, easily-operable control.
QSC Audio was recommended to this new-build project at an early stage, and after participating in an evaluation, impressed Mr. Pasquettaz, who considered the QSC bid to offer the best design solution.
He was also reassured by the discreet qualities of the recessed transformer-version AcousticDesign AD-CI52T loudspeakers (and surface-mounted AD-S52Ts). Furthermore, he liked the intuitive way in which the settings could be reconfigured in BASIS, QSC's proprietary DSP.
With the entire multimedia under master Crestron control, the Audio Link representative says the client is delighted with the result - and particularly with the fast yet fastidious way in which the contracting team worked on site. "Electronic Engineering know our projects well and it is just as if we were sending our own staff out to site," he says.
(Jim Evans)
