A restaurant dining room asks more of its stone than almost any other room in a building. Wine gets poured, swirled, and occasionally spilled at every table, and wine is one of the most reliably corrosive substances marble ever encounters; its acidity etches a dull, cloudy ring into unprotected stone within minutes, not months. Citrus wedges garnishing cocktails and plates, vinaigrettes drizzled tableside, and hot plates or cast-iron servingware set directly on host stands and tabletops compound the problem, each one chipping away at the polish that made the stone worth installing in the first place. Because tables are where guests sit for an hour or more, every etch mark, water ring, or heat mark is impossible to miss. It becomes part of the dining experience whether the restaurant intends it or not.
Sealers and wax treatments are the standard response, but they're a maintenance commitment restaurants rarely have the staffing or downtime to keep up with. They wear thin under nightly wine and citrus exposure and need reapplication on a cycle that often means closing tables or sectioning off the dining room. RAKU eliminates that cycle. It forms a permanent bond with the stone rather than a topical layer that degrades, so there's no recurring reapplication to schedule around service. A certified Marble Armour applicator completes the entire install in a single day with zero downtime, meaning a restaurant can have every table treated between a closing shift and the next day's open. RAKU is food-contact safe, heat resistant to 1,900°F, well beyond anything a hot plate or servingware will produce, and comes with a 10-year commercial warranty against the wine, citrus, and daily wear that dining rooms generate constantly.
RAKU by Lantania already protects tabletops in Michelin-starred restaurants and five-star hotel dining rooms across Europe, and Marble Armour's certified applicator network now brings that same protection to restaurants throughout North America.
Every table in your dining room is on display at every seating. Request a consultation with Marble Armour to schedule a single-day RAKU install and protect your stone tabletops and host stands for the next 10 years.