Commercial Restaurant Seating

Common Questions About Restaurant Seating

How do I choose the right restaurant seat?

An establishment's concept should guide operators in choosing a style and color of restaurant seating for their dining rooms and bars. The material used in the construction of the frame affects the durability, look, and comfort of the chair. Metal, wood, plastic, and resin frames are some of the materials available. When choosing a fabric for your restaurant seats, consider the best color to match your decorative scheme, whether the material should be stain resistant, and how difficult it will be to maintain its original appearance.

Depending on the size and type of your operation, ease of storage may be important to consider when choosing your commercial restaurant seating. Stackable chairs might be best for banquet applications and other high-volume establishments that store furniture when it is not in use. Chairs should be able to withstand day-to-day use, and if you're serving three meals per day, your restaurant seating may need to be more durable than other operations.

How do I choose the right restaurant booths?

With good planning and design, adding booths to a space can maximize the seating capacity of a dining room. Customers often find them more comfortable and private than chairs. Like restaurant chairs, booths should fit into the overall scheme of your restaurant since the wrong booths can retract from a dining room's ambience and negatively impact guests' experiences. Whether a restaurant's service is casual or formal, it's important to pick the right style.

The style of the booth's back is important to the overall look of this type of restaurant seating. Booths are often made with smooth, tufted, or pulled designs. Typically, booth backs that have a tufted style are harder to clean because they have small cracks and crevices. The booth's material can affect the strength of the piece and determine how easy it is to clean. Upholstered booths have a more sophisticated look and are more comfortable to sit on, but plastic is usually stain resistant and easier to clean.

What should I look for in booster seats and high chairs?

Booster seats can be used with most restaurant chairs and booths. Some are made of wood, giving your restaurant a more sophisticated feel, but plastic options are easier to clean and more resistant to damage. Most wooden seats only have one height, while some plastic booster seats are reversible, with a shorter side for older children and a taller side for younger kids. Straps secure booster seats to chairs and help keep children safely secured.

High chairs are also usually made of wood or plastic with the same benefits that wooden booster seats carry. Some high chairs are mounted on casters, so they can easily be moved from table to table. Like booster seats, most high chairs have built-in safety straps. If you want to save space, stackable high chairs will maximize the number of chairs that can be stored in one area.