Design-build audiovisual for Orlando restaurants, hotels, venues, and offices, from the AV company that's been headquartered here since 2008. Designed to what the room has to earn, and supported after.
Every buyer in this town has seen what a nine-figure production budget looks like. So has every guest. That does strange things to the conversation. One owner wants the effect he saw in a queue line last month, and his room can't hold it. Another assumes commercial audiovisual must cost attraction money, buys consumer gear off a shelf, and replaces all of it inside two years. Opposite instincts, same mistake. Both budgets came from a benchmark that has nothing to do with running a restaurant. A dining room isn't a dark ride. Nobody's strapped in, nobody faces the same direction, and the show runs sixteen hours a day with no maintenance crew walking the track at 2 a.m.
We've been headquartered in this city since 2008, and the most useful thing we bring to an Orlando project is a sense of proportion. That doesn't mean thinking smaller - It means designing to the room you actually have and the number it actually has to earn: a longer stay, a second round, a guest who books again. Sometimes that math comes out more ambitious than the owner expected. Often it comes out less. Either way we'll show you where the money changes the outcome and where it's decoration. Then we build and bench-test the rack at our shop across town, install, tune, train your staff, and keep answering the phone in year four.
What We Do Here
Every system is designed, installed, and supported by our own team in Orlando — never subcontracted.
01 / ORLANDOAV consulting from an audio visual consultant who joins at the architectural phase, designs the technology into the plan and steers the project around your business outcome.
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Commercial video walls across LED, LCD and Direct View. Designed, integrated, installed and supported by a national design-build AV integrator.
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03 / ORLANDOCommercial sound system design and installation: multi-zone audio engineered around how your space is used, wired and tuned on site, and supported as a partner.
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Design-build digital signage for hospitality and enterprise: commercial displays, content management, and installation that keeps your screens selling and current.
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Design-build AV control systems: one iPad, wall panel, or browser runs every display, audio zone, lighting scene, and source in the room. Programmed and supported in-house.
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AV programming that starts with the right design: a vetted, interconnectable stack unified into one control system, so the whole room runs from one simple interface.
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Conference room AV designed around the people using the room: video conferencing, Zoom and Teams Rooms, displays, and audio, installed and supported as a partner.
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Spaces we've wired across Orlando — each built and supported by the same local crew.
Downtown and the inner neighborhoods, the I-Drive hotel corridor, the Winter Park and Maitland office districts, and the growth running south into Osceola County. Home turf, all of it.
Outdoor components need genuine thermal headroom, and the equipment room needs its own cooling at 75 degrees or better, not whatever the building exhales.
Strikes and surges are routine in Central Florida, so surge protection and grounding go into the design, never bolted on after the first casualty.
Everything mounted outside gets picked and anchored for wind load, and enclosures get chosen for water intrusion rather than looks.
Outdoor seating earns all year here, so the patio gets weather-rated hardware, its own amplifier channel, and the same design attention as the dining room.
What we do here
Four kinds of room make up most of our hometown work. Each one has to earn something different, and the equipment list always comes last.
Bad restaurant sound has two signatures, and you only need one. Guests shouting over dinner, or an owner who can't hear the playlist he's paying for. Nine times out of ten the speakers went up around the perimeter, wherever the drywall crew left room, and nobody ran the coverage math. The middle of the room starves while the booths get blasted. The fix is placement and zoning, never volume. Dining room, bar, and patio each on their own processor channel, tuned to what that space is for. Hotels multiply it: a lobby, a pool deck, a breakfast room, and a ballroom are four different venues sharing a roofline, and each deserves its own answer under one control surface. The patio here earns twelve months a year. Build it like you mean it.
An Orlando venue rarely gets to be one thing all night. Dinner service turns into a show, the show turns into a late crowd, and the system has to change character on a preset rather than on a bartender's memory. The stage zone drops out of the house mix when the band starts, the back rooms keep serving people who came to talk, and one button resets the building. Now the limit, since this market trips over it constantly. If a full room turns speech into mud, that's the architecture talking. Hard walls, glass, tile. No amplifier fixes reflection. Absorption does, and acoustic treatment is a different trade from ours. We'll say so before you spend, and point you to the right people, because selling you a bigger system for a physics problem would be theft with extra steps.
Corporate rooms in this market fail quietly. Nothing sparks. People just stop booking the room that embarrassed them on a client call. The usual culprit is a conferencing bar that was never meant for the size of the table it's pointed at, bought because it looked tidy on a spec sheet. The second is inconsistency, five rooms with five behaviors, which trains staff to trust none of them. Our fix isn't exotic. Measure the room. Learn who meets in it and on what platform, since Teams, Zoom, and Meet each certify different hardware and act differently past a certain room size. Then make every room on the floor work identically, down to the button layout. Boring is the goal here. Boring rooms get booked.
Plenty of concepts get proven in Orlando and cloned across the country, so a lot of what we design here is a master, not a one-off. What travels is the layer your staff touch: interface, presets, naming, training. What shouldn't travel untouched is the physical design, since a converted freestanding building and a new inline space don't share acoustics. On rollouts we'll argue with you about scope, in your favor. Not every site earns the flagship package, and we'll name the ones that don't. Bigger properties add paging, which is its own discipline. An emergency announcement has to reach a guest who can't see the exit, through crowd noise, and land the first time. Background music never had to do any of that.
For a few things that count, yes. Response time is the obvious one. A local address means a technician in your room after a drive, not a flight, and it means the people who designed your system are the same ones who show up to it later. The quieter advantage is calibration. Crunchy Tech has been doing this since 2008, and most of those years happened right here, so we know what three summers do to a Central Florida patio, which corridors are big enough to need paging instead of playlists, and exactly how far a borrowed theme-park reference sits from what a restaurant needs. That said, local isn't a qualification by itself, so vet us the way you'd vet anyone. Ask who's accountable if the room doesn't work on opening night. Ask whether design and installation live under the same roof. Ask what happens in year three. We like those questions, mostly because of how our competitors' customers answer them.
Usually you can. Often you shouldn't, and the difference is your seating chart. A big display only earns its cost if most seats can see it comfortably, and the fastest way to waste money in this city is buying scale your sightlines can't deliver. An operator came to us wanting a wall because a nearby attraction had one. We mapped the field of view from every seat, and roughly a third of his room would never have seen it properly. He put the difference into audio and control instead, and that's the trade nobody regrets a year later. There's also a difference in kind worth understanding. Attraction work is show systems: fixed audience, scripted sequence, a maintenance crew on payroll. Your restaurant has people moving through it all day and a manager doing the maintenance, so the design problem is coverage and resilience, not spectacle. When a wall genuinely is the right answer, we'll engineer it properly, structure and cooling included, and we'll be just as direct about that.
It stops being an accessory and becomes its own venue. Outside, there's no ceiling to reinforce the sound, so a level that felt right in the dining room evaporates on the patio, and the answer is a dedicated amplifier channel with its own tuning. Spread the coverage across many speakers at low level. Concentrate it in a few loud ones and the tables near the poles suffer while the far corner still hears nothing. Hardware selection is where patios live or die in this climate: twelve months of heat, humidity, driving rain, and afternoon lightning, so enclosure rating is the spec that decides if year three brings a tune-up or a full replacement. Surge protection and grounding belong in the same breath, since they're what keep a nearby strike from taking the amplifier with it. One more control decision that prevents most neighbor complaints before they exist: the outdoor zone should shut down on its own schedule without touching the rest of the building. Staff hit one button at close and the patio goes quiet while the bar keeps pouring.
The rooms get designed the same way. The approval path is what moves. Winter Park, Maitland, Lake Mary, Kissimmee, and the Osceola and Seminole county pockets each review their own projects rather than deferring to Orlando, and we confirm the path against the actual address instead of guessing. Display mounting, rack power, and above-ceiling work are the usual review triggers, and each belongs to a licensed trade. Your electrician handles the circuits, your structural engineer signs off on the mounting, your general contractor sequences the ceiling work, and we coordinate with all of them. What we never do is perform electrical work, make structural determinations, or rule on code compliance ourselves. For an operator running several sites, the useful move is one repeatable standard. Same interface, same presets, same training everywhere, with the physical design adjusted per address since no two of your buildings sound alike. Do that and a manager can transfer between locations without relearning anything, and your support costs stop depending on which suburb the problem is in.
Client successes drive Crunchy Tech to become better. Below is how our customers feel about us.
Just do it. Spend the money. It’s well worth it. It’s not worth your time, hassle, energy, and stress of trying to make it look right and do it right when there’s somebody who has been doing it for years and has perfected the craft.
You're a great partner with Florida Hospital and this project will make a difference in Children's Health.
Working with Crunchy Tech was a fantastic experience from start to finish. They handled the sale and installation of all our sound and TV equipment at The County Bar in Aviston, IL, and absolutely nailed it. We were on a very tight deadline, and they not only met it—they delivered top-notch quality and service the entire way. Highly professional, responsive, and easy to work with. We couldn't be happier with the results.
Crunchy's AV Services are outstanding. Staff members are experts, who really extend themselves to find the right technology for helping us reach our marketing goals in creative ways. The best thing about working with Crunchy is collaborating with the staff – they are patient, responsive, knowledgeable, and available.
Crunchy has been great to work with. They communicate well and deliver as promised.
The work Crunchy has been doing is a game changer for this industry.
Being able to reuse the existing structure created a much lower cost for the client and they were ecstatic.
Crunchy has done an amazing job on our A/V install. The sound is perfectly balanced throughout our many zones and the entire system is super simple to use.
Just do it. Spend the money. It’s well worth it. It’s not worth your time, hassle, energy, and stress of trying to make it look right and do it right when there’s somebody who has been doing it for years and has perfected the craft.
You're a great partner with Florida Hospital and this project will make a difference in Children's Health.
Working with Crunchy Tech was a fantastic experience from start to finish. They handled the sale and installation of all our sound and TV equipment at The County Bar in Aviston, IL, and absolutely nailed it. We were on a very tight deadline, and they not only met it—they delivered top-notch quality and service the entire way. Highly professional, responsive, and easy to work with. We couldn't be happier with the results.
Crunchy's AV Services are outstanding. Staff members are experts, who really extend themselves to find the right technology for helping us reach our marketing goals in creative ways. The best thing about working with Crunchy is collaborating with the staff – they are patient, responsive, knowledgeable, and available.
Crunchy has been great to work with. They communicate well and deliver as promised.
The work Crunchy has been doing is a game changer for this industry.
Being able to reuse the existing structure created a much lower cost for the client and they were ecstatic.
Crunchy has done an amazing job on our A/V install. The sound is perfectly balanced throughout our many zones and the entire system is super simple to use.
We don’t sell you what we have. We design what you need. That line is the operating principle I’ve built Crunchy Tech around for the last 20 years. And it’s the single sentence that separates us - and the small handful of firms like us - from the other 97% of the commercial AV industry.
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Read article arrow_forwardStart with the address, where the project sits in its schedule, and what you need the space to do that it isn't doing now. The consult works backward from that outcome, includes a walk to map sightlines from real seats and confirm what the building allows, and comes back as an engineered scope with honest options at more than one budget.
