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A Case for Plastic Restaurant Furniture

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When you first decide to open up a restaurant, there would likely be countless things that would be weighing on your mind. Figuring out an ideal menu that would cater to the tastes and preferences of your patrons can be a pretty decent place to start, but your customers would also need some tables and chairs that they can sit on, and you would ideally want this furniture to be optimal in every way imaginable. Different restaurant owners have their own preferences with regards to their furniture choices, but we feel like there is one type of furniture in particular that is currently criminally underrated.

This is plastic restaurant furniture, and in our opinion it has gotten an unnecessarily bad reputation over the years. One of the biggest advantages of plastic furniture is that it’s just a lot easier to work with because it’s so light. Your employees would likely need to move tables and chairs around quite frequently based on the number of customers that they are serving at that precise moment. This means that finding a solution that would prevent injuries from occurring can be a worthwhile pursuit for you, and choosing plastic furniture can be an excellent step in the right direction with some plant shelves.

Your table settings aren’t always going to remain consistent when you’re serving your customers. For example, sometimes you might suddenly get a large party that would ask to be seated together. When this occurs, you and your workers would probably have to start lining tables up with each other, and buying plastic furniture can be a big help in this regard. The fact that it’s so light means that you wouldn’t really have to worry all that much about something like this. Instead, you can easily pick the furniture up and place it according to the needs of your customers.

Another advantage of plastic furniture being so light is that it makes it create less of a carbon footprint. A significant portion of carbon emissions don’t come from international shipping but rather the final ten percent of the product’s journey which usually occurs by road. The lighter an item is, the less fuel it would require in order to make it to its final destination. People really need to start focusing on reducing their carbon footprint in whatever way they can, and if choosing plastic furniture for your restaurant helps you do that then that’s just another good reason for you to consider it.

Generally speaking, lightweight furniture is often considered to be less than ideal for restaurants. That’s because entrepreneurs often assume that their lightweight nature also makes them less durable. Quite on the contrary, plastic furniture is widely renowned for being extremely durable, much more so than its weight would indicate. You would have a hard time doing any serious damage to a piece of furniture that’s made out of plastic. At most the furniture might get scuffed up, and that too only if it has been mistreated in some way, shape or form.

It’s quite easy to make plastic furniture last a really long time, and that’s especially helpful when you consider how affordable it can be. Plastic is one of the cheapest materials out there, and when it’s used to create furniture it can become a solution that is both affordable and long lasting. Restaurants with razor thin profit margins can often benefit greatly by using furniture like this primarily because it reduces their initial costs of operations and also reduces expenses down the line by preventing the unnecessary acquisition of replacement products.

All of these benefits are certainly worth considering, but there is another one that we feel like a lot more restaurant owners should know about. This benefit is that plastic is a very poor conductor of heat, and that actually makes it even better for restaurants. If your eatery is offering outdoor seating, a heat conductive material like metal can be problematic because it might get too hot for your customers to sit on which means that metal furniture should only be restricted to internal environments.

For outdoor seating, plastic furniture is more in line with what would be optimal. The fact that it barely conducts any heat means that it won’t get burning hot during summer days or chillingly cold in winter. A customer sitting on furniture that gives them an unpleasant shock will not bode well for the future of your enterprise, so it would be best to opt for something like plastic that would help you give your customers a much more comfortable seating experience. Plastic is ideal if that’s what you’re looking for, so try it out and see how it works.

Another thing that makes plastic such a suitable material for outdoor seating furniture is that it is much more resistant to the weather. Whether it rains on a given day or if the sun is beating down on it, plastic furniture is more than up to the task at hand. It’s not even slightly water absorbent, so rain won’t be able to have much of an effect on it at all. As for the sun, while it might fade the colors a little bit it won’t be able to commit any structural damage to your furniture.

Outdoor seating with fence planters also requires lightweight furniture even more so than indoor seating, so it’s pretty obvious that plastic is your most effective choice if you want something that is affordable, sturdy and convenient above all else. Restaurant owners can benefit greatly by giving plastic furniture a try, and the low costs of this experimentation means that they have even fewer reasons not to give it a shot.

William Eames
William Eames, with a background in industrial design brings over 18 years of experience in design and architecture. He joined our editorial team in 2019, offering insights into design trends and architectural innovations. Before this, William ran his design studio and lectured at various universities. His hobbies include photography and sustainable gardening, reflecting his commitment to aesthetics and the environment.

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