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Tillworth Cafe Furniture

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Tolix style cafe chairs

You know this chair on sight: pressed steel, splayed legs, a back that curves into the seat. All 29 here have metal frames, nearly all of them stack, and a good number are listed for patio use as well. The first call to make is the seat, bare metal or a wood seat on the steel frame.

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Distressed Yellow Finish Chair, Metal Bistro-Style
Distressed Yellow Finish Chair, Metal Bistro-StylePrice $109.00
Light Gray Finish Chair, Metal Bistro-Style
Light Gray Finish Chair, Metal Bistro-StylePrice $104.00
Black Finish Chair, Metal Bistro-Style
Black Finish Chair, Metal Bistro-StylePrice $99.00

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Industrial metal bistro 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.

Thin steel and an old bistro outline make industrial metal bistro chairs light to lift at close; read each listing for stacking and patio use before you plan where they sleep.

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.

Choose the frame and seat

Look at the seat option separately from the frame finish. Open the product to see which combinations are offered and how the selected options affect the price.

Shop plans

You know this chair on sight: pressed steel, splayed legs, a back that curves into the seat. All 29 here have metal frames, nearly all of them stack, and a good number are listed for patio use as well. The first call to make is the seat, bare metal or a wood seat on the steel frame.

Metal seat or wood seat

Every frame in this group is metal. On 20 of the chairs the seat is metal as well, and 3 put a wood seat on the steel frame. That split is the real decision, because it decides how the chair lives through a shift.

A bare metal seat takes a wet cloth at the last sweep and is dry again before you have finished the next table. It is also cold in January and loud when a regular drops into it with a tray. A wood seat is quieter and warmer under a customer. It is also the part that shows wear first, so pick a finish that will still look right after a few thousand lunches.

Stacking at close

Twenty-seven of the 29 stack. In a shop that mops every night that is worth more than any detail of the back. Lift, stack against the wall, wash the floor, and set them out again before the first tray comes out of the oven.

The footprints are small, which suits a shop with tight two-seat tables along the window. One metal dining chair is 14 inches wide, 14 deep and 34 tall. Another metal dining chair stands 33 inches tall on a frame 18 by 20 inches. Each customer wants two feet of table edge, and you can squeeze to 18 inches in a tight shop, and leave 18 to 24 inches behind the chair so it can be pulled out without hitting the next one.

Prices start around $91 and run to $126.

Inside by the till and out on the sidewalk

Twenty-four are listed for patio use, so one chair can serve the tables out front and the room by the counter. Read the listing on each chair before it goes outside. A piece without patio listing will rust or fade out there, and the warranty does not cover that damage. Even the patio ones need hosing down now and then, somewhere for water to run off, and a dry corner or a cover once the season is over.

For other steel frames, look through metal chairs and industrial chairs. If stacking is the deciding point, stacking chairs gathers every chair that stacks, and the full range sits under chairs.

Opening a second shop? Put this chair in a shop plan, note the seat and color, and copy the plan for the new address.

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