When deciding on the best seating configuration for your restaurant, understanding the many types, designs, and materials for restaurant booths is essential. We can help you select and organise your restaurant booth seats, whether you’re replacing current sitting with booths or you’ve recently launched a restaurant and don’t know where to start.
Why Should You Use Restaurant Booths?
At your bar or restaurant, how many times have clients asked to be placed in a booth? For a multitude of reasons, booths are an excellent choice for any bar or restaurant:
- Reduce traffic and reduce the need for waiters to travel around all four sides of a table
- Have a more comfortable feel and look than typical table seats
- Provide more privacy to your clients
- Come in a range of colours, styles, and patterns
The Structure of a Booth
Restaurant proprietors should educate themselves with restaurant booth designs before acquiring booths. Knowing the various components will assist owners in selecting the best one for their restaurant seating plan.
- Top Cap: Strip located on the top of the booth
- Head Roll: Added foam cushion for the head for comfortable seating
- End Cap: Located on the side of the booth
- Back: Added foam cushion for back support to help keep guests comfortable
- Crumb Strip: Between back and cushion for easy cleaning
- Cushion: Seating area of the booth
- Skirting: Located right below the cushion using the same material
- Welt cord: Additional piping for strength and style
- Toe Kick: On the bottom of the booth around the foot area to prevent wear
- Base: The foundation of the restaurant booth
Types of Restaurant Booths
With a wide variety of dining room booths to choose from, you’re sure to find the perfect restaurant booth design for your bar or restaurant. For example, you can choose between single, double, wall bench, 1/2 circle, and 3/4 circle types in many different lengths, widths, and heights. When it comes to small cafes and diners, try using a single booth to place up against the wall to optimize your walk space. You can also incorporate double booths that have back-to-back benches for your busy, fast-paced environments.
Half and three quarter circle booths are perfect when paired with large round tables to allow bigger parties to have more privacy. You also might consider pairing a wall bench with small tables, which allows for easy conversation among couples, but can be quickly transformed into a larger table for big groups. Whatever your application, there are many different types of booths to meet any need!
Restaurant Booth Styles
Once you determine what type of booth you would like, you can start to look at the different styles to enhance your restaurant decor. The different styles include Alex, bead board, button tufted booths, channel, fan, plain, and V back booths. Each style fits best with different layouts. For instance, try using the V back booth to match your retro theme. You can also use the button tufted booth for a more elegant look in fine dining establishments.
Alex
Alex style restaurant booths feature 6 divided channel backs.
Bead Board
Bead Board restaurant booths are constructed of solid wood.
Button Tufted
Button Tufted restaurant booths feature a button tufted backrest.
Channel Back
Channel back restaurant booths feature vertical channels.
Fan Back
Fan back restaurant booths feature an attractive curved back.
Plain Back
Plain back booths are a solid color and do not have embellishments.
V Back
V back booths have distinctive back stitching in the shape of a V.