Tillworth Cafe Furniture / Ideas & planning
Notes for cafes, bakeries and delis on table sizes, counter seating and the pieces that suit a small room.
30 guides · Page 2 of 3
Chairs · 6 min
A long wall in a cafe is either dead space or the best seat in the house. Put a row of chairs against it and every guest on that side needs room behind them to push back.
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Buying & planning · 6 min
You would never price a sandwich by looking at the bread.
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Tables · 5 min
Stand at your counter at two in the afternoon with a wet cloth in your hand. Somebody has just left a plate, a ring of coffee and a scatter of crumbs.
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Tables · 5 min
Watch a light two-top through one lunch shift. A customer stands, catches the edge with a hip, and the table shuffles an inch toward the aisle.
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Venue types · 5 min
At ten to twelve the deli case is full and the room is empty. By quarter past, there's a line from the slicer to the door, every tray is out.
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Tables · 6 min
A granite top lands on a bistro base like a sack of flour on a shelf.
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Chairs · 6 min
Industrial is the one cafe style that starts with the material and lets the look take care of itself.
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Tables · 5 min
"Do you have marble?" It is one of the first things owners ask when they picture the counter and the window tables of a new shop.
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Chairs · 5 min
Pick one up. That is the first test we would give any metal bistro chair, before the color, before the price.
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Tables · 6 min
A metal table is a tool you wipe after every guest.
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Tables · 6 min
A modern bistro table is mostly a question of what you leave off. No turned column, no scrolled foot, no wood grain fighting for attention.
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Tables · 5 min
Ten in the morning, and a family of four walks in wanting to sit together. Your floor is all two-tops.
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Save stools, chairs and tables with their options and counts, then copy the plan when the next shop or a refit comes round.
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Open chairs or bar stools for the height your counter or tables need. Put the configured price next to the listed size, then decide whether one piece suits the whole shop.
See cafe chairs →A table can come whole, or as a top and a base sold on separate pages. Check what is included and that the parts fit each other before you price the shop.
See complete tables →Save each configured piece to a named section. You can watch the furniture subtotal and change counts.
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