Virtual tours for restaurants and bakeries: three we have delivered

A small food business needs four to seven 360° photographs, not forty. We have delivered three: two branches of the same bakery and coffee house in Tirana at seven and four photographs, and a self-service restaurant in Vlorë at seven. What separates them is not the size of the room but the information layer — the restaurant carries 27 information popups on seven positions, one bakery branch carries 12, and the other carries none at all. Anybody quoting a restaurant forty stations is quoting it a hotel.

Three delivered rooms, counted

Seven positions, first bakery branch

The view from the street, the entrance, the front desk, the coffee lounge, the dining area, and the junction and hall running to the back of the room.

Four positions, second bakery branch

The frontage onto the street, two positions inside the room, and the toilets. That is the whole premises.

Seven positions, the restaurant

The street in front of it, the main entrance, the small entrance, the counter, the counter and till, the indoor seating and dining area, and the outdoor area.

In each case that is the whole premises, station by station, taken off the delivered tour. None of the three was padded and none of them needed to be.

Why the count is small, and why that is the right answer

A room a customer can read in one look does not need three positions in it. What a food business is selling is the atmosphere of a room and what is actually in the cabinet, and both of those are things a flat photograph flattens and a station count cannot fix. The honest job on a small premises is to cover it properly and stop — which is also, unhelpfully for us, the cheapest version of the job. We would rather say so than invent positions.

The information layer is the real variable

The restaurant in Vlorë carries 27 information popups across seven positions — a high density for a room count that small, because the interest there is in the dishes and the layout rather than in the distance covered. The first bakery branch carries 12, attached to what is on the counter. The second carries none, and is a straight walkthrough. Same kind of business, same sized premises, three different answers, and the difference is what the owner wanted the tour to explain.

The same brief, two branches, different counts

The two bakery branches are the cleanest controlled comparison in our archive: one client, one brief, one city, two premises, seven photographs and four. That is the argument against every square-metre rate in this market in one line — the count is a property of the building, not a sales lever. Both tours are live side by side and you can check it yourself. The full comparison is in the same bakery, twice.

What a job this size costs

Read it straight off the rate card: €40 for each of the first ten 360° photographs, €30 for each one after, VAT on top. A premises covered in four positions is the smallest tour we build, and it is exactly what the €160 minimum is. Nothing else is compulsory. If you want the arithmetic laid out step by step it is in what a 360° tour costs here, and the full rate card is on pricing. We do not publish what any particular job came to, so the multiplication is yours to do.

If you run a room like these and want a number rather than a meeting, send us the address and roughly what you want people to see. You get a station count, a scope and a fixed price. The longer write-up of the restaurant, with what those 27 popups actually do, is seven stations and twenty-seven popups.