Booth runs cut to the length on your drawing

01Joint position comes first

Modules come at 1,200, 1,500 and 1,800 mm, and any wall closes out with a filler panel rather than a cut seat pad, so the run ends square without a joiner improvising on site. Every run ships with one extra 300 mm filler, because the last wall on site is never the one on the drawing.

Back-to-back units share a 36 mm centre panel, which saves 80 mm of floor against two separate benches, and in a 200 m² room that is four extra covers for the same rent. In a 200 m² room that is four extra covers, and it is the reason a middle-of-floor unit beats two wall runs on a seat count.

02Two depths, one seat line

600 mm and 650 mm covers most plans. 650 gives a taller guest somewhere to put a knee and is the depth we send when the brand expects a ninety-minute sitting. Seat height stays at 450 mm either way, so a booth and a chair in the same run sit level.

High-back booths go to 1,450 mm with the same 450 mm seat, the height where a seated guest stops seeing the room.

03What wears first

The toe-kick, then the seat pad foam, then the fabric on the back where shoulders rub. So the toe-kick is removable with the mop in mind, pads lift off a bayonet fitting, and the back panel is 40 mm thick rather than 25.

04Custom booth seating, from your drawing

Custom here means the run length and the joint positions come off your drawing rather than a catalogue. Send the wall elevations with door and window positions marked, and the segments come back numbered in the order they are fixed, so the fitter works along the wall instead of cutting in the room.

Shape, depth, back height, toe-kick recess and cover all sit on the same sheet. Radius runs are made in 1,200 mm faceted segments. Quotes are per running metre, which puts a 12 m pilot and a 60 m store on the same line and makes the two comparable.

The trade calls the same unit banquette seating when the back runs continuous and a booth when it is broken into modules. Both come off these beams, and the difference is where the back panels butt rather than how the bench is built.

05How commercial seating manufacturers differ

Factories building booth furniture differ on what they cut in-house. Ask whether the frame is welded or screwed, whether the foam is cut on site or bought in blocks, and whether the upholstery is sewn in the same building. Those three answers decide how the 1,800 mm back panel behaves in year three.

Then ask for the module count in the last run shipped and the spare parts that went with it. Under twelve running metres is a sample order, and a 3,600 mm unit travels as a different packing problem from a 1,200 mm one.

06Repairing a run that is already open

Pads, back panels and toe-kicks are orderable on their own code, keyed to the module number stamped on the carcass. One torn pad in module four does not mean a new bench, and a damaged toe-kick unclips without the upholstery coming off.

Re-covering a whole run is quoted per module: in the original fabric where the roll is still traceable, and in the nearest current match where it is not. Colour is matched against a physical swatch, because dye lots move between years.