Commercial Furniture
Built for Service. Priced for Opening Day.
Dining room furniture takes more abuse in a month than home furniture takes in a decade. We source contract-grade seating and tables built for commercial traffic, at wholesale rather than showroom pricing.
Get a quoteThe temptation on a tight fit-out budget is to buy residential furniture and hope. It does not survive. We source contract-rated pieces — the same volume and supplier relationships we use for equipment — so the room still looks right in year three.
What we source
- Dining Chairs & Bar Stools
- Table Tops & Bases (Indoor & Outdoor)
- Booth & Banquette Seating
- Patio & Terrace Furniture
- Host Stands & Service Stations
- Bar & Lounge Seating
- Outdoor Umbrellas, Heaters & Barriers
- Waiting Benches & Entry Seating
How to specify it
Settle these before you ask anyone for a price. They are what separates a quote you can compare from a number you cannot.
Seat count drives more than seating
Occupant load follows seating, and it sets washroom fixture counts, exiting and barrier-free provisions. Choosing thirty-five seats instead of twenty-five can pull a second washroom into scope. Settle the number early.
Contract grade, not residential
Commercial furniture is built and tested for continuous public use. Residential furniture in a restaurant fails within a year, and in some settings it is a fire-rating problem as well as a durability one.
Turn rate and comfort, deliberately traded
Comfortable seating keeps people longer, which suits a wine bar and hurts a lunch counter. Choose the seat for the covers you need per session rather than for how it looks in a showroom.
Cleaning and spill behaviour
Every surface gets wiped down many times a day. Fabrics need the right rub rating and a finish that survives sanitiser; seams and crevices are where a health inspector looks.
Circulation and accessibility
Aisle widths, clearance to fixed furniture and accessible seating positions are code, not preference. A layout that seats more people than it can legally circulate will not pass.
Where operators lose money
Ordering before the layout is final
Furniture is sized to a plan. Ordering against a sketch and then moving a wall or adding a barrier-free washroom leaves you with the wrong quantity and the wrong dimensions.
Buying residential to open cheaper
It is the most visible false economy in the room. Chairs that wobble and finishes that wear look worse to a customer than plainer furniture that holds up.
Forgetting outdoor storage
Patio furniture has to live somewhere for five months of an Ontario year. Somewhere secure, dry, and large enough — planned rather than improvised in November.
Leaving it to the last two weeks
Upholstery and custom banquettes are made to order and carry real lead times. Furniture arriving after the health inspection is furniture your opening date waits on.
Common questions
How many seats should I plan for?
Fewer than the room physically holds. Once you account for circulation, accessible positions, service stations and the washroom fixtures your occupant load triggers, the workable number is usually below the first estimate. It is a code question as much as a commercial one.
Are booths worth the cost?
They seat more people per square foot than loose tables and customers prefer them, but they are custom millwork with a lead time and they fix your layout permanently. Good for a defined concept, awkward if you expect to reconfigure.
Can I use outdoor furniture indoors to save money?
You can, and it usually looks like what it is. More importantly, indoor commercial seating is specified for continuous indoor use and different fire performance. It is not a straight substitution.
When should furniture be ordered?
Once the layout is final and before finishes are complete. Custom upholstery and banquettes need the longest runway; stock chairs and table bases can come later.
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