Furniture

Every space has its own unique design needs. Whether you are planning to start a restaurant, or remodel your kitchen, or revamp your old bar, the main area of focus is going to be design. The choice of upholstery, the decision to use wood or metal, the color scheme of walls and the furniture, and other areas of design need to be dealt with care. Once your investment is made in this regard, you wouldn’t want to redo the design for quite some time, right? So, make an informed decision. And you would not regret it later. At AppleRestaurantSupply.com, what you see is what you get. And there is a lot to choose from. Let us look at some designs in the furniture section.

Outdoor Furniture
When you hear the word ‘furniture,’ the most likely image you conjure up is that of wooden tables and chairs. But, the furniture in your restaurant can be made of wood, or even plastic or metal, or even in a combination of these materials. The utility of the furniture should help you decide what kind of material to go for. For instance, plastic chairs and tables are best suited for the outdoors, where they survive exposure to different weather conditions, and are durable for long use. If you have an outdoor section in your restaurant, or a poolside restaurant, this would be ideally suited over the wooden or metallic furniture. The design may not be artistic in the conventional sense, but it could be a space-saving design as in the case of stackable armchairs. You can choose between the variety of designs in armchairs and tables offered by Grosfillex. In the range of armchairs, one can go for the Atlantic stacking armchair – in sets of four and more, available in light and dark shades, to go with your design requirements.
For more specific preferences like a low back seating requirement, you can order the Miami low back stacking armchair – again in sets of four and more. As opposed to the low back needs, if you need furniture in high back, go for the Savannah high back stacking armchair. It is available in three shades – charcoal, bronze mist and metal green. Another design that could fit your bill is the Victoria stacking armchair.
There are Victorian and Vegan designs in tables, to complement your chairs. The Vega folding table – with a 32-inch high table top – is available in square and round shape. The Victoria folding table – with a 38-inch high table top – is also available in the two shapes.

Booths
Moving indoors, there is always scope for including booths in the furniture arrangement in your restaurant or pub. These booths lend to the informal seating style that a restaurant may need. Also, these booths provide comfortable options over the regular chairs and stools, besides allowing for more seating space. You could choose double booths or single booths, or a combination of both – depending on the way you design your seating arrangement in the restaurant – against the walls, or back to back.
Several designs in both options are available from ATS. Although, most of these booths come in an average dimension of 46 inches by 36 inches, or 46 inches by 42 inches, the main variant is the design of the back, and the color of the upholstery. The back can be plain or tufted, in a single channel or a multi-channel design, a rectangular back or a fan-shaped back, and so on. The colors you can choose from include – gray, blue, red, black, green or custom colors.

Chairs & Stools
The most important, but the oft-ignored piece of furniture in a restaurant is the chair. The moment your guests arrive, you usher them to their seats, and it is on top of these seats that they have their meal. Thus, the guests’ experience of coming to your restaurant is inextricably linked to your investment in the chairs and stools. Make sure you purchase these seats after great thought, to keep the guest comfortable, and with an eye on the design of your restaurant as well.
Most of the chairs are available in a similar design for the bar stools as well, to make the overall design of the restaurant consistent. The distinguishing feature in the various kinds of chairs available at AppleRestaurantSupply.com – is the design of the back of the chair, and the color. Take a look at some of the design options in chairs and barstools: a windowpane design in the chair back, with or without a vinyl seat or a stain birch seat; or a vertical back, or a solid birch back, or a checker back, or a ladder back, or a cross back – from Oak Street. Besides these designs, simple Stack chairs in easy stackable design are available from Winco. The colors that are available include buckskin, blue, green, wine, black and red. Café stools, dining chairs, chairs with upholstered backs, chairs with wooden backs, stools without backs, transforming carts, Cabaret dining chairs, bar stools in vinyl are some of the other varieties in chairs and stools available at AppleRestaurantSupply.com.
Metal may be durable, but wooden furniture has its own charm. If you like to add the wooden appeal to your restaurant design, you could go for the natural wood restaurant chairs, with or without padded seats – in brown, tan or green shades. Large bucket seats and stools for the bar are also available.

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Child Seating
When families come out for dinner to your restaurant, you should anticipate the need for seating infants, especially toddlers. Koala Kare, G.E.T and Cambro offer a variety of options for seating children in the family restaurant or fast food joint – like the infant seat cradles, and high chairs with or without trays. Else, you could booster seats in variable height, with or without straps that can be easily fixed onto your regular furniture. These booster seats are available in attractive hues, and in sets of four or more.

Décor, Display Cases - Non Refrigerated
The décor of your restaurant could be as simple or as complex that you may choose. Complementing your design are several pieces of furniture like a red oak host stand, a dish buffet with or without the wine rack, and others. TurboAir offers display cases in the non-refrigerated section.

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Signage
If the signs are right, your business will benefit. Effective signage will draw customers to your restaurant. Someone looking for pizza, coffee, or even decaffeinated coffee will head to your joint if the right signage is effectively displayed in the right position. Winco, Traex, and G.E.T offer a host of signage table boards, LED boards, lighting boards, and so on, that could help your restaurant business.
Important directions like a ‘Wet floor’ caution sign could prevent many embarrassing incidents from taking place in your premises. To have a consistent movement, and to prevent guests and staff from banging the doors on another’s face, you need to install ‘Push’ and ‘Pull’ signage on the correct sides of the door.
If your restaurant draws a lot of business, and guests book their places ahead of time, you need the ‘Reserved’ table board.
Other important signage requirements in any restaurant or hospitality business are the ‘Caution’ sign, the smoking prohibition or non-smoking section board like ‘Thank you for not smoking,’ a lighted sign for ‘funnel cakes,’ or a ‘Hot water’ sign, or a ‘Hand wash only’ sign in the washroom, or a ‘Coffee’ sign or a ‘Decaffeinated coffee’ sign. For display options at night or in the dark, you need signage in LED like the LED ‘cappuccino’ sign, or an LED ‘open’ sign, or an LED ‘pizza’ sign, and so on.
Inside the restaurant, the numbering of tables and corresponding orders can be down with the numbers table tent sign, or with plastic table numbers printed on either side.

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Table Bases & Accessories, Table Tops
The table where you serve your guests can be a textured wooden or plastic board, or a regular board, which you can cover with cloth. Sturdy table bases in different height options are available from G&A Commercial Seating options. Tabletops in round, square or rectangular shape are available from ATS. Reversible tabletops are also available for maximum utility. Square tile tops and rectangular tile tops can be chosen in wood. Else, very sturdy Red Oak solid wood tables are available in two shapes – round and square – and in different heights.

Be it furniture, or dinnerware, or any other item you need for your restaurant business, you will find it here. If you are looking for a design that fits your bill, and complements your cuisine – be it Continental or Southern or any other specialty – come to AppleRestaurantSupply.com. We provide a complete solution to your restaurant equipment and kitchen supplies’ needs. Explore the rest of our buying resource guide, for some useful tips.