Open Door Restaurant Furniture / Ideas & planning
Practical reference notes for furniture schedules, handoffs and the next location.
30 guides · Page 2 of 3
Outdoor · 5 min
At 4:40 on a Saturday the sky opens for ten minutes and then closes again. The patio is full of wet chairs, the first reservation is at 5:30, and the host has one towel.
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Outdoor · 5 min
The afternoon breeze is part of why guests choose the terrace. It also changes how the furniture needs to be managed.
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Outdoor · 6 min
By the first hot Saturday you will know which table nobody asks for.
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Outdoor · 6 min
Two blocks from the water, the patio rail wears a gritty film by the second week of onshore wind. You can write your initials in it.
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Outdoor · 5 min
By the last warm Sunday in October the patio looks exactly the way you wanted it, and that is the trouble.
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Outdoor · 5 min
On the plan, a partition is a thin line.
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Outdoor · 6 min
What did the winter do to your chairs? You won't know until you carry them into daylight, and the first warm Saturday is a bad day to find out.
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Outdoor · 5 min
Shade has a schedule.
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Room layouts · 6 min
Forty chairs on a patio look like forty seats.
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Tables · 5 min
The wobble you notice is the one under a full glass of iced tea. A server sets down a tray, the table shivers, and half the patio learns which table is the trouble.
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Tables · 6 min
On delivery day every tabletop looks right.
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Venue types · 6 min
Everything that sits on a rooftop first had to be carried there.
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Save configured pieces to a patio plan for each space, then copy the plan when the season or the room changes.
A good first step
Chairs or bar stools? Match the seat height to your table or counter, then check the price with your options and the sizes before you multiply one choice across the whole space.
See all our chairs →Some tables arrive as one piece, and others are a top and a base listed apart. See what is included, and that the top and base fit together, before you add up the cost.
Look through the tables →Save your configured pieces to a patio plan and name its zones. The plan adds up the furniture as you change the counts, with your notes kept beside it.
Patio plans →