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Restaurant Design: Are Furnishings Your Centerpiece?

When you set out to establish, renovate, or redesign a restaurant, you simply can’t underestimate the importance of your furniture choices. Will your chairs and tables be central to the overall look of the place, or do they take a backseat to the walls, lighting, artwork, and other design elements?
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Restaurant Chair Design: Traditional or Trendy?

From materials and finishes to fabric designs to structural looks, the sky’s the limit on chair designs. Even the most staid establishments may choose to let their chairs and tables make a strong design statement. But is trendy, overly strong chair design the way to go? Can you afford to refurnish when trends have turned to the next newest look? After all, you don’t want your place to look like yesterday’s news.
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Restaurant Table Design: The Plusses About Pedestals

You’re ready to select tables for your restaurant chairs and are pondering legs vs. pedestals. Which way to go? Consider flexibility and practicality.
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Restaurant Chair Design: Bar Stool Comfort Issues

All bars are created equal, right? Not! Some bars are for drinks only. Some serve appetizers, some full meals. When your bar is doing double duty—for drinking and eating—you definitely need to consider restaurant furniture with an extra level of comfort for the extra time spent there. Plus, if only drinking, people tend to lean on bar tops, so the chair support is not as big a deal. If eating a meal, the bar top is needed for plates and settings, not elbows.
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Restaurant Table Layout: Floor Plan Flubs

A crowded restaurant is good news for you, the owner. But for the patron? Not always. While a full house definitely communicates to customers the fact that they have selected an eatery that’s popular and where the food must be great, an overwhelming feeling of being crowded can have the effect of claustrophobia and irritation.
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Restaurant Furniture Design: Matchy-Matchy?

Time was, in fashion, everything had to match: hats and gloves, finger- and toenail polish, staying in color families. Then the trend progressed to coordinating—not matching exactly, but a more liberal approach: formerly unmatching colors grouped together, mixing prints with stripes, or big prints with small prints. Then came “whatever makes you happy”: a cheery eclecticism of “anything goes.”
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