How to Choose Furniture for a Restaurant or Bar
Before you begin to think about how to furnish a new bar — or refurnish your old one — you should ask yourself one very important question: What are people going to do here?
It’s not as obvious as it seems. Sure, they’re going to buy drinks, schmooze, and hopefully keep coming back to invest in your kids’ college fund one mojito at a time. But what is the unique character of your bar? Are you a sports bar with a half a dozen flat screen televisions? Are you a traditional pub serving lunch and dinner? Or, are you in an urban arts district catering to a crowd stopping in for a drink before a night at the theater? Each of these is a very different business — and each has a different way of making money. It’s important to keep all of these factors in mind when thinking about how to furnish your establishment.
Let’s start with your bar’s entrance. If you are in an urban area or a college town, you’re probably going to need some kind of door control. You’ll likely employ a bouncer or two to check drivers’ licenses at the door. A great bar table and stool set at the establishment’s entrance not only reminds your employees that you care about their comfort, but it serves as a preview of what’s to come for potential patrons. Consider a simple bar table such as the Olympia Stainless Steel Bar Table. Combined with an appropriate bar-height stool, you offer your greeters and door managers a compact station from which to do business. The table offers a surface for managing door supplies — wristbands or hand-stamps, for instance, tickets, or a small cashbox for making change — and this particular model has a clever rack under the tabletop for hanging a bag or purse.
For seating, consider something along the lines of the Aluminum Bar Stool with Arms, appropriate for both indoor and outdoor use, or an adjustable-height stool. Door-management is an essential operational factor for many bars, and doing it wrong can cost you money — even your liquor license. It’s also how your customers will first interact with your business, so it’s worth doing right. An elegant pub table and matching stool sends the correct message.
Inside the bar, the furniture will be determined, in part, by what you are serving up with the drinks. Whether it is a hot plate of fish-n-chips, buffalo wings, potato skins or something a bit more high-class, the d
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