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This was the second cafeteria design I made. Using railings, I tried to further separate the hot lunch people from the sack lunch people. Not sure if this would work or not, I decided to completely separate the dining and "food getting" areas in my final design.

I also had multiple levels of seating, increasing a foot at a time to create a flooring system that appeared sort of like topography. However, I didn't like this afterwards because people would find it irritating to have random steps everywhere. I needed to simplify a little bit.

In this design, however, I did have a much larger balcony with multiple upstairs pathways to get there. But I then thought about the people who like to eat on ground level, like being near flowers and trees, and I knew then that I would also have to have a ground level eating area.

Okay, I now see that you do have some written description with the plans of your first two designs. I understand some of the motivations behind your design decisions in your final design but I am not 100% convinced that completely separating the dining from the serving areas will resolve the congestion problem you initially described, I think bottle-necking might happen at the entry/exits of your circular spaces. What inspired your separate, circular spaces? It seems quite different from your first two layouts.