Restaurant Furniture Blog

How flexible is your restaurant, or more importantly, how flexible is your restaurant chairs layout? There will be five in my group, can you accommodate us at the one table? What about three, or perhaps a single diner? Being flexible can be highly important in getting the best out of your restaurant - as humans, we don’t gather in nice neat little groups.

Of course, the less formal dining establishments, like the fast food outlets, don’t worry about flexibility. Often, it is a case of every man (and woman and child) for themselves with the first in getting the best seating. Having said that, even fast food outlets have a little flexibility. Most of their seats and tables are bolted to the floor, but they do still have a small number of ‘floating’ seats that patrons can grab when needed - and hopefully not in use.

For more formal establishments, there is nothing like neatness. You have thirty tables, each with two chairs. A party of four, why you can have two tables next to each other. Is that your approach or do you have the flexibility to add two more chairs to the one table? Better yet, have you planned ahead?

Good planning would ensure you had a few restaurant tables that suit a single diner - although with room to add an additional chair if required. Tables to suit two diners - again with the room to add an additional chair or two, and perhaps a larger table that seats four comfortably, but could have an additional chair or two added to seat up to six.

With a restaurant chairs layout like that you are in a position to provide flexibility in your seating. That makes for happier customers - customers who are more likely to return on a frequent basis.