Restaurant Furniture Blog

One of the hardest things to achieve in a new restaurant is the restaurant furniture layout. It is all to easy to view the layout from the entrance. That’s fine when it comes to your customers, but what about your staff?

A restaurant can become congested very quickly if you don’t plan efficiently from the start. You will have diners coming and going at varying times and your wait staff trying to serve tables. Add to this customer flow to and from the bathrooms (if you have them) and the mix can be awkward.

When planning your restaurant’s furniture layout, you need to take into account the coming and goings of customers from both the entrance and the bathrooms, and your wait staff as they move to and from the food servery. When viewing your plans, you need to image customer movement and wait staff movement occurring simultaneously - because it will happen.

One method to resolve the problem is by having a main or central aisle that is reasonably wide. It may reduce the number of restaurant tables you have, however, having a full house of happy diners is better than having a half empty house of cramped tables.

Whether your provide a central open movement area, or decide on just a little extra space between tables, ensuring your restaurant furniture layout provides adequate space for traffic is a must. No one likes to dine in a congested space. We go to restaurants to be part of a crowd - not so we can become crowded.