Cafe and Restaurant Chairs

Featuring the best restaurant chairs in Canada

ArchiPro’s range of cafe and restaurant chairs is curated for quality. This means they are stylish, safe, effective and useful to the highest industry standards in Canada. Though they can vary in construction, ensuring you have good-looking and high-functioning chairs is vital to making your establishment as inviting as possible for your customers to sit in. Whether it’s side chairs, banquet chairs or a modern designer chair you’re after, you’ll find plenty of great solutions on ArchiPro.

Types of restaurant chairs

Side chairs

Side chairs are one of the most classic styles of chairs for cafes and restaurants in Canada. It is simple in design, straight-backed, and four-legged.

Banquet chairs

Banquet chairs are highly stackable, lightweight, and durable, making them a solid, practical choice for outdoor seating.

Mission/shaker chairs

Usually constructed from sturdy wood slate, mission/shaker chairs suit almost all types of restaurant interiors.

Contemporary chairs

If your cafe or restaurant is modern in design, pair it with contemporary chairs. These chairs often have a unique design and shape that is on-trend and stylish.

The advantages of high-quality restaurant chairs

High-quality cafe and restaurant chairs introduce your eatery to the customer and show them how much you value them at your business. Choosing chairs of high quality is therefore imperative to sending the right message and ensuring you get repeat business. High quality chairs are made from stronger, more robust materials and typically feature more designer features in terms of style. That means they will essentially look good, for longer.

How to choose a cafe chair that’s right for you

Selecting a chair for your business should be a deliberate choice, especially because they are a big cost for newer businesses in the cafe or restaurant industry.  When you are looking for the best chairs, you are looking for ones that are the right colour, shape, height and aesthetic for your business. Thinking about the construction, in terms of design and material, is also important as you don’t want to have to replace them frequently over the long term.

Should restaurant chairs have arms?

No, restaurant chairs should not have arms. This is because customers and diners will be regularly moving their arms to eat and arms on normal-sized chairs tend to interfere with the normal eating process.

How much space should there be between cafe chairs?

Generally, people shouldn’t feel cramped when seated in a cafe chair next to someone else, so it is important to leave a generous amount of space to increase customer satisfaction and to make sure you minimise accidents. Because of this, it is recommended that you leave roughly 30 cm between cafe chairs.

What is the standard height of a chair in a restaurant?

In Canada, the standard height of a chair in a restaurant is around 50 cm off the ground. While this is for a traditional chair, some people have tried experimenting with different heights depending on their customer base or have slightly adjusted it because of the height of their tables.

Can outdoor cafe chairs be left outside in the rain?

Technically yes, but you shouldn’t. While high quality cafe chairs do tend to have a rather long life expectancy, leaving cafe chairs outside in the rain will cause them to degrade faster.