Themed Ambience
Each Rainforest Cafe restaurant is designed to depict some features of a rainforest, including plant growth, mist, waterfalls, animatronic robots of animals and insects. To enhance this theme, the restaurants are populated by animatronic figures, manufactured by UCFab International, LLC of Apopka, Florida. The star ceilings are designed and manufactured by Fiber Optic Systems Inc, located in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey.
The restaurants are partitioned into several rooms by means of rain curtains that fall into basins running along the tops of partition walls and booths and aquatic tanks. The Rainforest Cafe serves food ranging from seafood, beef, and chicken to pastas and pizzas, as well as its award-winning crab dip. There is also the tradition of yelling "volcano!" when somebody orders a "volcano" sundae.
The staff of Rainforest Cafe are named in accordance with the safari theme. Waiters are called Safari Guides, hosts and hostesses are Tour Guides, sales clerks are Pathfinders, bartenders are Navigators, bussers are Safari Assistants and kitchen staff are Trailblazers. Rainforest Cafe restaurants have a gift shop, where rainforest themed merchandise is sold.
In all restaurants, located in the Retail Village, Rainforest Cafe has an animatronic tree named "Tracy the Talking Tree." The tree entertains guests every 5 minutes educating them about the rainforest.
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