One table line, four footprints

01Why the height is fixed

750 mm is the dining number and 1,050 mm is the counter number, and both are written into the sheet as a tolerance of ± 2 mm rather than a nominal figure with a note. Let table height drift by 5 mm across a chain and chairs fit one store and rock in the next.

Base plates are sized off the chair, not off the top: 410 mm on a 700 mm square, 450 mm under a round, 500 mm under a counter table because people lean on it.

02Edge banding takes the bus cart

13 mm HPL with a 2 mm PVC edge survives the bus cart that 0.8 mm does not. Corners are radiused at 15 mm on a square top, and a round top is banded in one continuous strip, which removes the corner joint that fails first.

Underside is sealed, because a store that mops twice a day will swell an unsealed core inside a year.

03Tops and bases in one carton

Damaged tops never cost a second base or a second freight leg, because both arrive in the same carton with the top bolted to four threaded inserts. Tops stack ten to twelve high in a container, and the packing list counts them per store.

04Commercial table tops for chain restaurants

Tops come in solid timber, HPL on a moisture-resistant core, and compact laminate. Solid timber is the one that ages into the room; HPL is the one that survives a sanitising cloth twice an hour. Both are cut to your shape, with the edge band and the corner radius written on the drawing.

Weight is the figure that gets missed, and a 1,200 mm solid timber top is heavy enough that the base becomes the specification decision rather than the top.

05What the base decides, before the top

The base sets the stability, legroom and floor contact of the whole piece, so it is chosen first. Cast iron, steel column and four-leg timber cover most plans; a 650 mm column on a 450 mm spread plate holds a 1,200 mm top without a rock on a floor that is not level.

Bases and legs are orderable on their own as replacements. Plate patterns are standard across the range, so a top that is still good can be re-seated on a new base without being recut or re-edged.

One supplier for the top and another for the base is how a run ends up with two edge colours and a plate that does not match the holes. Both come from the same sheet here.

06Wholesale tables for chain restaurants, by the container

Price per table follows the top material and the base type before it follows quantity. One 40 ft container takes around 320 tops stacked and the same number of bases broken down, so the pairing is planned to fill the box rather than to round off an order.

Tables and chairs load together when a store plan needs both. The arithmetic is why a set quote comes in below two separate ones.