How to choose chairs for a restaurant or bar: ultimate guide

How to choose the best chairs for your restaurant or bar? This is the question of all entrepreneurs who are preparing to furnish the spaces of their restaurant business. The choice of the most suitable chairs for your restaurant or bar represents a very important aspect that should never be underestimated: the choice of design chairs and tables for a restaurant represents in fact a unique opportunity to give great personality and identity to your spaces.

In this article we will provide you with some important tips and indications to help you choose the best chairs for restaurants, capable of enhancing and characterizing these environments, as well as being able to ensure maximum comfort to its customers.

Chairs for restaurants or bars: main features

What are the main features that must have the chairs suitable to be arranged in the spaces of a restaurant or bar? In order to choose the best and most suitable chair for your spaces, it is first of all important to understand the type of activity you conduct: it is precisely according to the type of activity that you will have to consider some important aspects for the choice of the most suitable chair for your needs. The characteristics of a chair vary depending on the type of activity and we can briefly outline a simple overview:

• Chairs for restaurants (or chairs for luxury restaurants)
• Chairs for bars
• Chairs for pubs
• Chairs for bakeries

Regardless of the type of business you find yourself running, when choosing the best chair you should also consider that trends in fashion and design change regularly every year. Obviously it is unthinkable to replace the chairs and tables of your restaurant every year and you will have to choose furniture that is destined to last: for this reason our advice is to avoid choosing models of chairs that are too cheap: behind these apparently convenient proposals are almost always hidden products of low quality, which will deteriorate over time with extreme ease and further aggravation of costs for their replacement.

On the market today are available a wide variety of products that differ from each other in style and materials used for their construction. Regardless of the style and material that characterize the chairs you are going to buy, you will have to consider with great attention the fact that these furnishings will have to be used frequently and will therefore be able to be preserved for a long time.

A fundamental requirement of a chair for any activity open to the public is the functionality and practicality of the furniture. If the chair you have chosen meets these requirements, you can then focus on the style and design aspect (colors, materials and concept).

Chair for bar or restaurant: standard measures

If you are going to buy chairs for a lounge bar (link article how to furnish a lounge bar scheduled for March 3), coffee or restaurant, usually the measures of the furniture are attributable to the minimum standards to which it will be appropriate to adapt: let's start by saying that as the depth of the seats, it should be respectively 40, 45 centimeters. With a depth less than this standard, your customers may be uncomfortable and uncomfortable.

The seat width of a bar/restaurant chair, on the other hand, will need to be at least 40, 43 centimeters to meet average comfort standards. For the activity of a pub (even sometimes a bar) will not be able to miss the stools to be placed next to the counter: the width of the latter should in this case be at least 40 centimeters. A luxury or high-end restaurant chair, on the other hand, should be an average of 45 centimeters.

Chairs with these dimensional characteristics may be placed next to a table with a top that is about 30 cm higher than the seat of the chairs.

Main qualities of a chair for restaurant/bar

Regardless of the style that will characterize the chairs that you have chosen for your business, these chairs will necessarily meet certain requirements: here are the main qualities that must necessarily be present in a chair for bar restaurant:

Comfort of a chair for restaurant/bar

Ensuring maximum comfort for your clientele in a bar or restaurant is a must. In this regard it is important to consider that there will be very different people who will enter and sit in your place. Our advice is not to set up too few seats. If you don't have particularly large spaces within your premises, choosing stackable chairs could be the perfect solution to optimize the square footage you have available.

To configure the perfect harmony in your place of business you will necessarily have to think about how many chairs you will have to purchase and arrange in the rooms: in this regard our advice is to prefer the arrangement of a small number of elements, to offer comfort, socialization and privacy to the diners.

Stability and Safety of a Chair for Restaurant/Bar

Another essential feature for a chair for a restaurant / bar is represented by the stability and safety of the furniture: an unstable chair, as well as being dangerous, will also ruin the experience of the customer at your restaurant or bar, distracting him from the meal and affecting his tranquility and relaxation.

In order to configure the maximum stability of your chosen seat, it is best to opt for furniture with particularly strong legs.

Duration and resistance to wear of a chair for restaurant/bar

As mentioned in the previous paragraphs a chair for restaurant / bar must be able to withstand wear and tear, lasting for a long time: always remember that these furnishings will be particularly subject to wear and tear, since they will be used with great frequency: not all customers are delicate and graceful!

Our advice in this regard is to choose chairs of medium-high quality, with coverings particularly resistant to wear and tear.

Another aspect that you should not underestimate when choosing a chair to be arranged in a restaurant/bar is the cleaning factor: choose chairs that facilitate daily cleaning operations (furniture made of materials that are very easy to clean, both dry and wet).

Chairs for restaurant/bar: compatibility with the style of your venue

In order to maintain the atmosphere that you have configured in your spaces with the related choices of style and design, it is necessary that the chairs that you have decided to prepare in the environments are compatible with the stylistic imprinting of your restaurant or bar: the compatibility of style is certainly an important aspect that should never be underestimated.

Each piece of furniture chosen and arranged within a space must correspond to the design concept that characterizes the environment (minimal, industrial, vintage, country, rustic, etc.).

Christina Chair, the perfect furniture for a restaurant/bar

If you are looking for a comfortable chair for your restaurant or bar, easy to handle, but at the same time characterized by a refined and elegant style, we recommend the purchase of our beautiful Chair Christina: this furniture is the ideal solution for the context of furnishing a bar, cafeteria or restaurant.

Christina is a chair that comes with a chromed sled frame and scoop fabric seat, available in white, black, gray and taupe finishes, or alternatively with vintage fabric seat, available in desert, ebony and tobacco finishes.

Upon request Sedia Christina is also available with white frame and white scoop fabric seat or with black frame and black scoop fabric seat.