5 Useful Tips For Choosing Furniture For Your F&B Space

Nowadays F&B businesses aren’t just places where you can grab some grub. The success of a restaurant, café, fast food restaurant or pubs, is also dependent, to a certain degree, on the attractiveness of the interior, furnishings and layout. Although having a tantalising spread of food takes precedence, first impressions matter just as much and it’s often the factor that piques the customer’s attention before they even take a bite at your establishment. Read on to find out how you can make your café, restaurant, fast food restaurant, or pub’s interior design work in your favour to draw the foodie masses.

Planning & Requirements

Identify your café or restaurant’s requirements. What’s your chosen demographic, cuisine type and theme? What kind of ambiance are you aiming for? Modern café décor runs the gamut from old-timey and vintage to larger-than-life cartoons, so there are options aplenty when it comes to how you want to decorate. However, whether you’re opening a café, restaurant or coffee shop, the furniture and décor need to be both practical and aesthetically pleasing. Note down what kind of furniture you would need for each part of your eatery. A restaurant may have a waiting area while a café may be strapped for space and opt for space-saving booth seats instead. The layout and design of your establishment is a visual presentation informing your potential customers what to expect from the food and service upon entering.

Find The Right Material

A successful café or restaurant is bound to be visited by a wide range of clientele, both young and old. Your café and restaurant interior designs need to include furniture that is durable enough to withstand the ravages of fluctuating temperature, moisture and children while still being easy to clean. Plush fabrics work well in fine dining establishments while easy-to-clean faux leather upholstery or foldable chairs would be more suited for a casual café setting.

Our booth seats aren’t just available in a variety of styles, they also come in several types of fabric coverings, from plush to upholstered and laminated for easier cleaning. Can’t find what you’re looking for? Fret not, we also offer made to order customisable designs that will fulfill your every colour, size, material and style needs.

Suitable Sizes & Styles

Ideally, your café, restaurant, fast food restaurant or pub’s design should take into consideration the space constraints of the outlet. Overly huge furniture or décor could prove cumbersome and get in the way of the waitstaff or worse, cause accidents. However, a table that’s far too small could also prove troublesome to serve food on as the number of dishes may exceed the amount of space needed. A mix of differently sized seating options and tables will help maximise capacity without looking too crowded.

Consider what kind of crowd you’re aiming to serve as well. Larger numbers call for longer tables, romantic settings call for smaller tables, while family-oriented spaces would do well with round tables instead as they’re more intimate. If evoking nostalgia among your customers is your goal, do consider the timeless beauty that is the Kopitiam Table.

Low-level and moderate height chairs are suitable for cafes where customers tend to hang out for longer periods of time. High chairs are more suited for an establishment with a bar area. Anchored furniture also ensures that you can keep your seating area clean and organised while portable ones are more versatile.

Don’t forget to check the comfort level of the furniture you wish to include in your café or restaurant interior design idea. Is sufficient back support a concern? If so, these gorgeous and comfortable lounge chairs should do just the trick.

Stick To The Theme

Your café, coffee shop, or restaurant’s theme and corresponding furniture and décor largely depends on the type of cuisine you intend to serve and the concept you wish to present. While there is no right or wrong about this, it would seem odd and dare we say, to serve fine dining dishes on tables that would be more suited to a fast food chain outlet. If you envision your eatery as a classy fine dining haven, your furniture choices would be vastly different than a family-oriented café. Perhaps you plan to cater more to the Instagram-happy crowd and if so, perhaps whimsical, colourful or rustic looking themes would be more up your alley. Can’t find the right style of seats to fit your café or restaurant’s chosen theme? Build one yourself then with Comfort Furniture’s made to order, fully customisable booth seats. From baroque to minimalist, plush to upholstered and laminated, there’s something for every dream theme.

Ensuring your establishment is well-lit with tasteful lighting will help you win brownie points as well. The design, colour, height, weight and shape of the furniture you choose should match the kind of food you intend to serve so that the menu and overall ambiance blend together seamlessly for a wonderful dining experience.

Fit For All

Easy to clean and multifunctional are key factors to look for in your furniture and décor. You won’t want to waste your staff’s time on cleaning hard-to-maintain table tops when they could be serving a customer. However, you shouldn’t compromise on your customer’s comfort in the pursuit of durability either. A cohesive mix of modern café décor and classic furniture will offer versatility for different groups and occasions. It can be hard to eke out extra storage space in your layout, hence it might be a good idea to opt for seats with built-in storage space such as a booth seat.

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