Restaurant Project · United Kingdom
Their Artwork, Our Tooling
How a Chinese restaurant and bar in the UK turned its own patterns into a dim sum stand range — six orders across three years.
No written testimonial was filed — the proof is on the client's own advertising:
TATTU did not want a supplier's design. It wanted its own, on a stand.
The restaurant and bar serves Chinese food in a room where the tabletop is part of the concept. Its dining area runs on dim sum stands and a large volume of steamers — pieces that get handled, stacked, washed and looked at, every service.
PYEIN's job was to turn the client's artwork and colour choices into tooling: printed stands produced to the restaurant's own patterns rather than a stock range. The first order was placed in March 2023. Five more followed, the last in April 2025 — and the client has been photographing the range for its own marketing ever since.
The dining room where the stands are set
What the restaurant wanted:
- Its own artwork on the stand, not a stock pattern.
- Steamers in volume, built for a busy room.
- A colour match that held across reorders years apart.
- A supplier that could repeat a custom run, not just make one.
The brief, in brief, was a stock product wearing the client's own clothes.
How Artwork Became Tooling
The customisation was the easy part. Repeating it was the work.
- Artwork to tooling — client patterns and colours translated into production specification.
- Colour held across reorders — the same match on orders placed two years apart.
- Stands and steamers together — the two families supplied as one program, so the room stayed consistent.
Six orders across three years, with the range still in service in the client's own photography.
A custom run is easy once. A custom range is a supply relationship.
What Went to the UK
| Item | Detail | Qty | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Custom dim sum stand | Client artwork and colour, produced to tooling | Per order | Tabletop presentation |
| Bamboo steamers | Volume supply for a busy dining room | Per order | Dim sum service |
| Bases | Matched to the stand range | Per order | Stacking and service |
| Reorder production | Same artwork, colour held | 5 reorders | Consistency |
Delivery, Documented
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