Restaurant Furniture Blog

The trouble with a restaurant chairs layout is that you are trying to squeeze every possible seat out of the restaurant whilst maintaining patron integrity. Often the problem is that patrons begin to rub shoulders, even when they don’t want to know each other. The trick is to try and maximize the space yet keeping people’s backs away from each other.

There are a number of ways to do it. The simplest and most effective is by alternating table angles. If you use a table layout that alternates between being on the square and being on the diagonal, patrons should never finish up being back to back.

With your tables laid out in that fashion, your restaurant chairs layout then follows suit. Patrons can freely come and go without worrying about the chair back of the person behind them - there isn’t one.

Formal restaurants prefer to have all their tables lined up the same way. However, this has a rather military look to it. Less formal restaurants can afford to play around with their layouts, staggering tables to break up that format look. Formal restaurants often don’t need to maximize their space - the prices they charge more than cover the lower table numbers.

If you play around with the layout of your tables you will find that patrons can get in and out of their seats quite comfortably yet you will not have compromised the number of patrons seated at any one time. Get your table layout right and your restaurant chairs layout will fall into place with ease.