Hill Cross Furniture 
One major contributing factor to any successful restaurant design can often hinge on which shape of restaurant tables you use.
Square restaurant tables, round restaurant tables, oval restaurant tables or rectangular restaurant tables? It is often difficult to decide which will best complement your interior design.
As a guide, 600mm, 700mm and 900mm square restaurant tables suit a more casual dining experience. But for a more formal seating arrangement 750mm and 1000mm square table s should be used.
Square restaurant tables are by far the most popular choice. Square tables can allow for flexibility and furniture re-arrangement as these use a straight edge and can easily and quite quickly be butted-up to each other to accommodate larger parties or groups. Be mindful here when selecting your square restaurant tables that the width MUST be the same size in order for you to push them together, 700mm or 750mm work well. Square tables can also be placed against a wall or in a corner.
A sense of order and regularity can also be felt when square tables are used within a restaurant – essential when designing an up market fine dining restaurant, where the ambiance is one of formality and elegance. It is also worth bearing in mind that a square restaurant table can offer a sense of dining intimacy that is missing from the vastness of a round table. Square restaurant tables have the advantage of offering your guests to have direct eye contact and conversation corridors across the table.
If considering using square restaurant tables within your design consider the fact that a square shape gives you more usable space, for example, the corners of the table are good areas to place serving dishes.
And here is where selecting square tables over round tables gets really interesting… adaptability… you can have the best of both! Square restaurant tables can be made with leaf extensions to create round restaurant tables if required. In addition square tables can also be made to convert to a rectangle shaped table, extremely useful when accommodating larger dining parties or in busier periods as you can fit more customers around the table. This type of flexibility is key when meeting the needs of your customers as adaptable square to round restaurant tables create the ability to offer on the spot flexible seating arrangements catering to each individual customer’s requirements. But does your restaurant have the space for these to be adapted? Make sure it does or you will end up with a very cramped restaurant leaving no free flowing aisles for customers or waiting staff to pass comfortably.
Just as you will consider colour and style preferences, the table shape must be visually pleasing to your customers and should complement the restaurant design as a whole.
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