Dining High
Fancy feasting is reaching new heights-literally. Several national and international news organizations have recently given coverage to “Dinner In The Sky�- a company that offers six courses served by a chef and three waiters to corporate clients. The kick is that the dining experience is on a platform suspended up to 180 feet above ground by a crane. You can dine and hover almost anywhere the crane can operate.
This novelty dining experience was introduced in Europe last year. “It was like eating with the 12 apostles and Jesus Christ," said David Ghysels, co-founder of the Belgium based company in a USA Today article.
This is no cheap date. Dinner In The Sky charges its clients about $38,000 for seating for 22. Guests are harnessed securely in their seats before the crane lifts the platform in the air.
Dinner In The Sky could soon be an American attraction. According to Design News, the company is in the process of designing a permanent Dinner In The Sky restaurant tower. It would hold four tables and seat 88 diners. An unnamed Orlando, FL theme park is said to be in the midst of negotiations to build the tower there.
The experience is also safe. “Normally in construction, you would use four cables between the table and the spreader,� inventor, Stefan Kerkhofs says. “But we doubled everything for safety. So from the table to the spreader, we have eight cables, and from the spreader to the hook of the crane, we have eight cables.�
Just don’t drop your fork, right?
(An audio interview with one of Dinner in the Sky's owners, David Ghysels, can be found here. )