Pros and Cons of Restaurant Booths?

Answer 1

Restaurant booths are often more comfortable than sitting in a stiff wooden chair at a restaurant. However, like with anything else, they have their pros and cons that can really make or break restaurant booths for some people. Usually color is never a factor for a customer, however, it can be for a restaurant-- booths come in some awefully ugly colors and that can be a real deterant for some restaurants- especially ones that are part of a chain with a certain color scheme or theme. Listed below are pros and cons of restaurant booths from a potential customer's perspective.

Pros:

Restaurant booths are more comfortable than sitting in a chair. They have puffy seats that are better for relaxing while you are sitting down to eat. Because of this puffier seat, sometimes a person's height comes into play because the seat will deflate leaving you more chin level with the table than you would like.

If you have back problems, you will be more comfortable sitting in a restaurant booth than you would be in a chair. The backs of the booths are just as cushioned as the seats are, making them more comfortable for people that may be in Back pain or just not feeling 100% that day.

Restaurant booths afford more room for more people to join your party. If you have to try and cram more than six chairs at the table, you are not going to be very comfortable. You will be more than likely sitting elbow to elbow in a restaurant booth but you would be able to get more people in a booth.

Cons:

Restaurant booths are not ideal for sitting in during the summer time. If the booth is made of vinyl, you are going to stick to the seat making for an uncomfortable time moving around or getting out of the booth.

If the booth is made of vinyl, it can be come cracked due to the sun and heat exposure. This means that there could be rips in the cushion that you have to sit on that are uncomfortable and can scratch you. Some places will fix it with Duct Tape, which can also be scratchy and irritating if you have to sit on it, not to mention unattractive to look at.

It can be a downside for many that as you sit at a restaurant booth, the air in the seat that kept it nice and puffy before will start to deflate, leaving you sitting lower, and lower in your seat.

Answer 2

Opening a new business can be a very expensive proposition. If you are opening a restaurant or café one place you can save a lot of money is by utilizing the deals to be found by purchasing used furniture and decorations for your new business. Used restaurant booths, light fixtures and other accouterments can be found in several different places with a little research and if you are not afraid to get a little dirty.

The furnishings for your new restaurant should reflect the atmosphere you are hoping to create. That might mean taking a little extra time to find the right furnishings for your place but it can be done. You may even want to hire an interior designer to help to not only create the right ambiance but to assist you in finding the perfect furnishings for it.

Generally there is nothing wrong with used furnishings for your restaurant. You may need to make some minor repairs or do a little cleaning but with the savings that can be found it is well worth the work. One of the best things about chairs and booth benches is that the material on them can easily be changed. So even if you purchase booth benches in green and you need blue the color problem can easily and inexpensively be remedied.

A great place to get used restaurant furnishings and equipment is a local restaurant that is going out of business especially if it happens to serve the same type of food as you are planning. Certain types of restaurants just seem to have similar decorating schemes. A steakhouse or bar-b-que type of restaurant for instance will often use a lot of heavy wood furniture and rustic materials in the decorating scheme and generally utilizes booths for seating while an Italian restaurant may lean more towards candles on the tables and individual chairs for seating.

Look around for liquidation sales and auctions. Hotels that are going out of business or remodeling may also have good used furniture they will almost give away. Sometimes when a 5 star hotel redecorates they will also do the restaurant and café as well as the rooms. Often the furniture used for these high class establishments will be of a higher quality then the furniture available at some other places.

Decorating a new restaurant requires dedication and often a large sum of cash but if you are careful and diligent you can get good used furniture including used restaurant booths cheap.