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Metal cafe chairs

Metal is the working frame of the trade. These 121 chairs share it, nearly all for indoor use, with seats in vinyl, wood or fabric and backs from plain slats to fully padded. The frame is the easy choice here.

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Metal Dining Chair, 3 Slats Back
Metal Dining Chair, 3 Slats BackFrom $80.50
Light Silver Metal Chair, Ladder-Back with 3 Slats
Light Silver Metal Chair, Ladder-Back with 3 SlatsFrom $78.50
Metal Finish Coffee Cup Back Chair
Metal Finish Coffee Cup Back ChairFrom $92.00

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Metal restaurant chairs

Notes from behind the counter

Picture the piece at four in the afternoon, after the lunch line has been through. Check the seat height against your counter and the base spread against the top. Save the models that pass to a shop plan, with a note on where each one goes.

With metal restaurant chairs, the frame finish is the easy part; spend your time on the seat, since a padded seat and a hard one suit very different lengths of stay.

Look at the finish and construction

Compare the stated frame material and the available finish, including coated or wood-look options where offered. Keep those descriptions separate: the appearance of a finish does not change the underlying frame material.

Read the footprint

Compare the listed overall width and depth with the space at your table. Armrests, the table apron, and the chair back all affect how the chair fits into the arrangement.

Shop plans

Metal is the working frame of the trade. These 121 chairs share it, nearly all for indoor use, with seats in vinyl, wood or fabric and backs from plain slats to fully padded. The frame is the easy choice here. Spend your time on the seat, because that is what your regulars feel every visit and what wears first.

Pick the seat for the stay

A padded vinyl seat keeps someone through a second coffee and wipes clean between customers. Wood seats suit the quick-turn shop: sit, eat, go. Fabric feels softer and asks a little more of the cleaning routine, so it belongs where spills are rare. Ask for a free swatch before you order a room, and again for any reorder, since the colors on offer change over time.

Upholstered backs are the biggest group. Curved backs, bucket shapes, interchangeable backs, ladder backs and vertical slats follow, so the same metal frame can look plain at a deli or dressed up in a shop that stays open for supper.

Height, arms and fit

Where a seat height is printed, expect 18 to 20 inches, the right range for a standard dining table. If your tables are older or homemade, tape them before you order, since a table an inch low makes a whole room of chairs feel wrong. A few have arms. Most do not, and that keeps them narrow enough for a two-seat table at the window. A handful stack, and a few swivel. Our metal bistro chairs guide lifts each frame, reads its weight and checks the glides before a chair goes on the floor.

These are indoor chairs. They suit a dining room and the counter area, not the sidewalk; for the shop front, look at the aluminum chairs and check each listing for patio use.

Two plain examples: a ladder back metal dining chair at 17" W x 20" D x 32 1/2" H, and a slatted metal dining chair at 20" W x 18" D x 32" H. Prices range from about $68 to $347.

Narrowing the range

The metal ladder-back chairs gather one classic shape. The upholstered-back metal chairs collect the padded backs for longer stays, and the metal chairs with wood look put a grain finish on a metal frame for a warmer room. Everything else sits under cafe chairs.

Opening another shop? Save the chair to your shop plan with its seat and finish written beside it, and the second order is a copy of the first. Regulars notice when the room changes.

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