LOQUI has built a following on bold Mexican flavors, and its Runway Playa Vista location, tucked into the Free Market food hall in the middle of LA's Silicon Beach, needed a photo booth that could hold its own next to that kind of personality. So Majestic installed one, through the same Venue Placement program behind permanent booths across the country. What that partnership looks like on the ground, at one specific counter in one specific food hall, is the rest of this story.
Playa Vista, By Way of the Free Market
Runway Playa Vista is the kind of neighborhood built on collision: tech offices and startups sit a block from boutiques, coworking spaces, and a food hall built to feel more like a living room than a cafeteria. The Free Market leans into that mix, a cluster of independent kitchens and shops meant to be wandered through, not just passed on the way to lunch. LOQUI holds one of the anchor spots, and the crowd it pulls in, coworkers grabbing a fast bite between meetings, neighbors making an evening of it, weekend visitors exploring the wider Runway development, is exactly the kind of foot traffic that turns a photo booth from a novelty into a habit. It's a pattern we've seen play out at other permanent photo booth installs across Los Angeles too.
That's the backdrop Majestic was designing for: a booth that reads as premium and pioneering rather than generic, one more piece of a neighborhood that already treats itself like a destination.
The Setup
This is a long-term Venue Placement, meaning the booth is a fixture of the space, not a one-night rental. The exterior wears an dark blue curtain and warm walnut paneling, and a custom LOQUI-branded panel sits front and center, pairing the restaurant's coral pixel-block mark with a simple "3 Poses / 2 Prints" callout so guests know exactly what they're walking into. Even the floor got the LOQUI treatment: a custom graphic in deep maroon and cream sits underfoot, right where the finished photostrip lands after a session.
Step up to the touchscreen and it greets you with a plain "Hi! Welcome to the Majestic Photobooth," framed in the same coral pixel border as the exterior sign. Insert, tap, or swipe to start. A QR code mounted near the payment terminal connects guests to support if anything needs a hand, not a photo delivery shortcut, just a fast way to get help mid-session. Small details like these are what make a permanent placement feel considered instead of dropped in: the booth borrows LOQUI's own color story and iconography rather than asking the restaurant to work around a generic frame.
A Few Minutes Inside the Curtain
Picture two coworkers ducking in after lunch, still holding half a bag of chips. The curtain pulls shut, the countdown starts, and the best frames never come from the pose anyone planned. They come from the half-second before or after: the laugh that hasn't landed yet, a look passed between friends, someone still chewing. That's the moment Majestic's booths are built to catch, immediate, a little unpolished, entirely real (a few more of our favorite ways guests end up posing are rounded up in Photo Booth Pose Ideas).
They step out, and the wall-mounted photostrip holder just past the curtain is already doing its job. One print gets folded into a pocket. The other gets left behind, tucked into the holder for whoever visits next to notice. It's a quiet kind of marketing: no ad, no push notification, just a strip of photos sitting where the next guest will see it and wonder if they should grab one too.
For LOQUI, that turns a fast-casual lunch stop into something people plan around. A booth like this rewards a return trip, and every strip left behind becomes a small, tangible reason to come back. If you would like to have a booth like this at your venue talk to us. Let's create unforgettable moments together.
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Why a Permanent Placement
Majestic installs, brands, and maintains the booth as an ongoing partnership; there's no rental fee changing hands, and no gap where the booth sits unused between events. Instead, the booth earns its keep through the guests who use it, session after session, which means LOQUI gets a piece of experiential marketing that never has to be re-booked. It's a small, permanent upgrade to the room, not a one-off activation, and it keeps working long after the ribbon-cutting is a memory.
That distinction matters in a food hall setting especially. A rental booth shows up for one weekend and leaves. A Venue Placement becomes part of the room's identity, referenced in reviews, tagged in guest photos, and woven into the everyday rhythm of the space the same way the menu or the lighting is. It's the same logic behind placements like The Gallery in Downtown LA and Fred Segal Home in Malibu.
Why It Fits LOQUI Specifically
LOQUI's brand voice is playful and unapologetically bold, and the booth was built to match that rather than blend into the background. The coral pixel-block motif on the exterior panel and floor graphic isn't a generic Majestic template dropped into the space; it's pulled directly from LOQUI's own visual identity, which is what makes the placement feel like a genuine extension of the restaurant rather than an add-on. That's the difference between a photo booth a venue tolerates and one guests actively look for.
If you're weighing a placement for an office-adjacent space like Runway, Corporate Event Photo Booth Ideas and Options is a good next read.
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