The National Restaurant Association Show – Part Two

When it comes to building and designing trade show exhibits, our team has to be able to predict when and where our exhibit assets need to be. With The NRA Show being in May, we found ourselves traveling from Houston to Chicago with two of our clients to make their exhibits come to life on the show floor. Both Melitta and BWT exhibited at the Specialty Coffee Expo, where they featured raised flooring for exhibit plumbing. We were able to carry both designs over to their NRA Show displays, swapping out BWT’s backwall and adding in a coffee lounge in Melitta’s exhibit. Additionally, we found ourselves building a display centering around our client F3 Technologies existing LED panels. See their exhibits on the show floor below:

At the NRA Show in Chicago, we were able to build a similar exhibit for BWT that we created for them in Houston at The Specialty Coffee Expo. This exhibit featured raised flooring for plumbing to reach their water dispensing station, lounge seating, a storage closet backwall, a custom product podium, and a triangular hanging sign.

Our team was approached by F3 Technologies to create an exhibit utilizing their existing LED panels. We were able to build a large tower to fit their panels and positioned rental furniture and cabinets around the corners of their display.

After wrapping up the Coffee Show in Houston, we continued to work with Melitta’s exhibit for The National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago. For this show, we created a coffee lounge space for attendees to sit and meet with the Melitta team. Most of the exhibit assets stayed the same at this expo including the pillowcase sign attached to their overhead lighting, storage closet, raised floor, and custom LED lit display alcoves.

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