Restaurants · Bars · Chicago

r:homefor hospitality

Technology integration for Chicago's best restaurants and bars.

Our rooms

Rooms you may have eaten in.

The dining room at Creepies: banquettes, a checkerboard floor and a coffered ceiling. The bar at Creepies, with a tiled back wall. A wood-paneled corner of banquettes at Creepies.

Creepies

Music in four rooms. Full lighting integration.

Sophia Steak: dark wood, low table lamps and warm light.

Sophia Steak

Lighting integration, discreet ambiance, full Wi-Fi and surveillance.

DJ's Great Room

Vinyl and a two-channel listening experience. Music through every room. Warm light from lunch to last call.

DJ's Great Room: a long banquette, a blue-stooled bar and large globe chandeliers.

Also in Chicago

  • Petit Pomeroy: a red coffered ceiling with globe lights over white tablecloths.Petit PomeroyMusic, network and full low voltage.
  • The storefront window of Layla and Ringo's on Wells Street.Layla and Ringo'sAn all-day grocer, coffee bar and eatery. Music and network from morning to night.
  • Nightcap, the speakeasy at Class Act: plaster walls and a row of pendant lights.Class Act and NightcapMusic in every room, Wi-Fi and cameras.

Discreet ambiance.

We add to the room and stay out of sight.

  • MusicSpeakers hidden in the ceiling
  • LightingOne button per scene
  • TVsSized and placed to suit the room
  • ShadesDown for glare, closed at dusk
  • OutdoorsPatio sound and light

Dining room

Dinner · Lights 40% · Shades for privacy · Music up

Press a scene · Drag to look

A more analog feel · Two-channel listening systems for bars

A wall of McIntosh amplifiers with glowing blue meters among the bottles at a bar. A McIntosh meter glowing blue, close up. McIntosh amplifiers on walnut record shelves at a bar.

Photos: McIntosh

An r:home equipment rack with neatly dressed network cables.
An r:home rack

Live

Remote monitoring

We watch your network around the clock. We see a problem as it starts, often before your staff does.

The service never stops.

The network behind the room carries your business. We keep it up.

  • POSUp on a full Friday night
  • Guest Wi-FiKept apart from the business
  • CamerasKitchen, office, door, street
  • SupportOur line answers 24/7/365

Design-build

A full design-build team.

Design comes first. We draw every system, then give you one fixed price. This is one of our restaurant plans.

Low-voltage floor plan of a Chicago restaurant: a lounge, a dining room with one long table, a kitchen and a bar, with ceiling speakers marked.
Ceiling speaker, 11 in all Rack in the basement, out of sight Names, camera and network positions removed
  • Design first

    We walk the space and draw every speaker, keypad and cable.

  • Then a fixed price

    You see the full design and one number before we build.

  • Built and supported

    Our crew installs on the builder's schedule. Our line answers 24/7/365.

We work with the general contractors who build Chicago's restaurants, including Chas Bender.

Tell us about the room.

We start with design. We walk the space, draw the system, then send you a fixed price.

Your contact

Tim Lahey

(773) 248-4830

CEO, r:home