SIZES, DESIGNS & TYPES OF RESTAURANT TABLES IN INDIA

The types, styles and themes of restaurants in a diverse country like ours with a melting pot of cultures, tastes, income brackets, cuisines and lifestyles directly translates to as many demanding requirements for furniture & fittings. One such important furniture is the dining table, which can be either movable or a fixture.

The decision primarily depends on the type of restaurant you wish to set-up, the audience you wish to attract, and the guessing the arrangement in which they’ll come…couples, families, large group of friends, etc.

Order too many of them and you’ll have wasted money that you’re unlikely to get back due to lack of occupancy, order a few of them and you’re going to lose potential business, guess the audience patterns wrong and the business will suffer.

But this is only the tip of the iceberg, the truth is that the variations between different designs of restaurant tables, types, sizes, and shapes are so varied that this post can only skim through a portion of it. But we’ll take a stab at it anyway.

PARTS OF A RESTAURANT TABLE

Thanks to the low-cost of labor in India, many of us are not familiar with the concept of a knocked down unit. This is basically separated portions of the tabletop & the table base which can joined together on-site.

In western countries, this is a technique that has been adopted quite extensively since the components come from manufacturing hubs in the east.

If the order size for your restaurant tables is fairly large, then the tables will be sold to you in knocked down versions. To ensure seamless joining of them, read on.

They’re basically a disassembled version of a table with various segregated parts, mainly:

1. The Table Base – This is the bottom portion of the dining table that is also called the legs or the neck of the table, depending on the table design and the table type

2. The Table Top – The most distinct & noticeable item in a dining table, tabletops are made in reclaimed wood, solid wood, stainless steel, marble, cast iron and in a plethora of sizes, thickness, materials & designs

3. The Base Plate – The base plate is the foundation of the table, smaller restaurant table designs have only a single neck as opposed to 4 or 6 legs, so in order to increase stability a base plate with a wide span is used.

4. The Spider – This is the component that attaches the tabletop with the table base

8 RESTAURANT TABLE DESIGNS & STYLES

outdoor swing out table with attached seating

OUTDOOR DINING TABLES

Unlike standard furniture that consumers buy from B2C marketplaces, dining businesses like restaurants and cafes need specially made hospitality-grade furniture and tables due to the conditions in which they're used

Furthermore, within this, outdoor furniture for restaurants need to be made out of select few materials that are able to withstand the harsh outdoor conditions

Unfortunately, this can be detrimental for your furniture, tables, especially as outdoor conditions are generally a lot harsher, it’s is much hotter, damper, dusty & just generally much rougher. This is precisely why using outdoor grade tables is a must.

Outdoor grade tables generally are made of metal, wicker (rattan), cane or outdoor grade wood. Of course, plastic tables are also used but you don’t want them or else you wouldn’t be reading this article.

outdoor restaurant table in cast iron disc base and 30 inch round marble tabletop

outdoor dining table with 30 inch X 24 inch tabletop

restaurant table with with glass top for 2

INDUSTRIAL TABLE DESIGN

An in-demand furniture & interior decoration style, and one that is not being preferred across several restaurants and cafes in India. For seeing all types of restaurant furniture that we sell in Industrial styles, please visit this page

Tables in industrial styles are often the ones that feature rough-looking metal, mainly in black. This radiates the feeling of a industrial appeal akin to that of the 1900s Britain

Steampunk tables is a very specific niche unique to the industrial styles, these use rugged steam pipes, a large metal crank for adjusting height and large non-functional wheels for an even more rugged & industrial look

However, popular industrial designs are much more restrained and much more delicate. Modern industrial designs are also used quite widely in formal dining restaurants

vintage industrial design dining table with barstools

industrial design table with twin metal ladder base for restaurant dining

expediter table base on an industrial style dining table

classic industrial-style table with trestle legs for commercial dining

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minimalistic and sleek dining table in powder coated stainless steel

MODERN RESTAURANT TABLE DESIGNS

“The 21st century has brought with its materials and design philosophies that are simply jaw-dropping and if you’ve been around long enough to see the definition of “modern furniture” evolve, you’ll know exactly what we’re talking about.

The modern furniture design style came somewhere around the 1950s with mid century design philosophy which advocated for usage of modern materials and less extravagance in designs, although this was mainly done to keep costs in control

At FurnitureRoots, we make modern furniture for restaurants, and about 25% of the SKUs within the category are for the dining tables

The wide usage of marbles like Italian Marble, Quartz & Corian have given to some stunning dining table designs as you can see in the images”

sleek contemporary table with bolt down table table

dining table with slant gold-plated legs and smooth wooden tabletop

Mid century modern mangowood table with 48 X 30 rectangular tabletop

BAR TABLE DESIGNS

While not exactly a design style, bar tables certainly deserve a mention of their own, since they’re quite unusual & understanding of them is important if you’re running the type of dining business that requires knowledge of such tables

So you can now see bar height tables in Thali joints, Udipi restaurants and even in fast food joints

Bar height, however, is a standardized measurement which roughly means about 106 cms off the ground and a 91 cm seating height

Bar tables typically come in round shape and they seat 2 but supplies sell several different variations of these

bar height cross legged table with thick solid wood tabletop for hospitality dining

bar height restaurant table with twin pedestal legs and stainless steel tabletop

White metal bar height table with wooden counter top

farmhouse restaurant table with english country table legs and distressed tabletop

FARMHOUSE WOODEN DINING TABLE DESIGNS

If there's one thing we're known here in India for, it is recreating authentic & traditional wooden furniture.

Our vast reserves of solid mangowood and availability of highly skilled manual labor has helped us scale our farmhouse designs across every corner of the Indian lifestyle and restaurants are no exception

Choose from tables with a wooden table top, wooden table base or a completely ground up wooden dining table

classic Indian restaurant dining table with cabriole legs

classic 4 legged rustic restaurant table in barnwood finish

rough sawn designed round farmhouse table

FINE DINING RESTAURANT TABLE DESIGNS

As a largely family-centric society, our appetite for family dining in formal arrangements is an activity loved by us all

A distinct dining experience by way of a fine dining restaurant primarily facilitated by the superior service, cuisine & the ambiance. Underestimating the role that restaurant dining tables play in this may have a counter intuitive effect on the desired quality you're trying to achieve

Our fine dining restaurant furniture and our dining tables are timeless, classic and aesthetically pleasing & suitable for an "Indian themed" or a "western themed" fine dining arrangment

marble top fine dining table with large column base for 6

fine dining restaurant table with wishbone table base

fine dining table for formal restaurants in darkwood tabletop

fine dining Euro design round dining table

Counter height dining table set painted green for 4

COUNTER HEIGHT RESTAURANT TABLE DESIGNS

This is the standard measurement used to denote tables that have their tabletop at a height which is somewhere between the “bar height” and more than the “standard height”

Interestingly enough, a counter height used in restaurants is the same as the counter height used in most domestic household kitchesns

Almost all types of establishments that serve alcohol use counter height dining tables and they’re typically rectangular and allow for 4 diners to eat and drink at once.

four legged counter height dining table for restopubs

counter height commercial restaurant table with cross legged cast iron table base and rustic tabletop

classic counter height table designs for casual restaurants

TABLES USED IN DINING BOOTHS

Dining booths are great for an intimate and private dining experience, the tables used in these are somewhat different, they’re either stuck to the ground or the tabletops are drilled to the wall as in the picture to the left.

Although other instances of free-standing benches are also used in more casual restaurant booth style seating arrangements

double T shaped design for dining tables with booth seating

private booth style table restaurant dining table design

floor fixed restaurant booth table design

V shaped Table base design for private dining booths

RESTAURANT TABLES BY SIZES

6 & 8 PERSON RESTAURANT TABLE DESIGNS

Particularly suited for restaurants that see plenty of family folk or large group of friends visit on the regular.

Typically restaurants and pubs assume 25% of their dining capacity provisioned for visits in groups of 6 or larger. Here are some of the 6 seater & 8 seater dining table designs

8 person restaurant table with hardwood tabletop

6 person table with platinum shaped W table base

free form dining table design for 6 with silver chrome legs

2 & 4 PERSON RESTAURANT TABLE DESIGNS

2 person tables and 4 person tables are among the most common type of restaurant table designs. More than 60% of a restaurant or a bar’s capacity is assumed to occupy these tables

Here are a few of those designs

simple low cost 4 person standard restaurant table design