Every restaurant is different, so to ask which restaurant furniture would be best suited to your establishment is almost impossible to answer. Many questions need to be asked and the right restaurant furniture will depend on the answers you come up with. Here is a small list of questions you need to ask yourself before spending countless time searching for furniture for your restaurant.
What style of dining are you planning on targeting? Is it very casual, family dining, or are you going for elegant dining? The atmosphere you are trying to target has a great deal to do with the furnishings, wall, and window treatments.
What type of dining customers do you expect to target? Families with children, construction workers, or those looking for fine dining, all have expectations when eating in a restaurant, particularly, when it comes to style.
What style of food are you offering? If you are serving foods with rich sauces, will those sauces stain the table? If you’re offering steaks on a sizzling platter, will the table handle the heat? There are many questions related to your food that need to be considered as well as the factors that pertain to the look that you are going for.
What table sizes do you need? Banquets, families, or fine dining for two? It comes back to your target market and being able to satisfy the extremes of that market. One of the main things that you may want to keep in mind for table size is how they can work together. This means you will want to try to use tables that are the same width so you can put them together to create larger tables out of smaller ones when big parties come in. That will save you some money and space.
Do you need to include flexibility? Indoor and outdoor dining or catering for occasional banquets are just two areas where flexibility could be important.
There may be other questions that were missed, look around your space and see if you can come up with any other questions and include them in what you are trying to accomplish with your restaurant.
You should ask yourself these questions before looking for restaurant furniture. You will then have a checklist of the requirements for your restaurants and it’s then simply a matter of checking off each feature that you require. Find restaurant furniture that fills all your criteria and you will be able to say that you have found the right furnishings for your restaurant.