Coffee Shop Re-Design For Low-Vision Baristas and Visitors (Case Study at Café X Bandung)

Abstract

Café X is a coffee shop managed by 3 low-vision baristas. Visitors to this cafe are also dominated by visitors with visual impairments. Due to the limited visibility of the barista and some cafe visitors, several problems were found that could cause discomfort for workers and cafe visitors. Therefore, it is necessary to adjust the cafe's operating system to support performance and provide security and comfort to the baristas and visitors who come. The data collected are data on raw materials, machinery, and equipment for cafe operational activities, data on physical facilities, layout and actual physical environment of cafes, data on the application of 5S around the cafe area, as well as data on potential accidents that may arise while around the cafe area. Then the data will processed using the method of comparison with anthropometric data and design concepts in improvement for physical facilities and cafe layouts. Standardization comparisons to improve physical environment. Radar maps to determine the application of 5S culture. Fish bones and 5W+1H to describe the causes of potential accidents in the cafe area. The suggestions given are the adjustment of the machines and equipment used, redesign of the physical facilities and layout of the cafe, the proposed design of tools in the form of tactile stickers and the application of guiding blocks as directions, improvement of the physical environment, application of 5S culture to maintain the work area and provide suggestions prevention of accidents in café area.