Chairs that hold one seat height across a hundred units

01Seat height and frame

Seat height is the number that decides whether a chain can mix a stacking chair at the window with an upholstered chair at the banquette without a visible step along the room, so it is written on the sheet before the shape is chosen.

Frame material is the second line on that sheet: steel tube where the chair gets dragged all day, solid beech where the timber is part of the scheme, formed plywood where it has to be light enough for one person to move between services. Bolted corners are the reason chairs start to wobble in year two, so every joint is welded or glued at the factory rather than assembled on site.

02Each shape does a different job

Stacking takes the bulk of a plan because those chairs clear the floor between services. Cantilever suits a hard floor and a machine cleaner. Tub chairs hold a corner where a guest stays longer. Wishbone is the one a chain uses when the brand leans residential rather than contract.

Send the plan and we will mark which shape goes where, with a seat count for each.

03What the sheet fixes on a chair

Frame material and joint. Glide type, because nylon on tile and felt on timber behave differently. Powder colour and batch. Cover, with the roll number recorded. Foam thickness at the seat front. Stacking depth where the chair stacks. Spare parts per wave: two per cent of the order, in glides, pads and bolts.

04Dining chairs for commercial use

The difference between a domestic chair and commercial furniture sits in the joints, not the shape. Frames welded at the corners and a seat that takes a 150 kg static load without the rails spreading; glides specified for tile or for timber; foam that holds its height through a twelve-hour day rather than a two-hour dinner.

Covers carry a rub count in the tens of thousands, and the two front glides are the part that fails first. Load is tested on the frame, not on the fabric, so a chair that looks untouched can still be loose at the corner welds.

The range runs from backless side chairs to tub chairs with arms, all on the same seat height, so the main floor and the corner read as one grade of furniture rather than two.

05Buying chairs wholesale for a chain restaurant

Wholesale here is a price per chair that moves with quantity and with the container it travels in. One 40 ft high cube carries around 1,100 side chairs nested and stacked, and around 700 upholstered tub chairs, so the quantity that fills a box is the quantity that gets the best rate.

Mixed loads are normal. Chairs, tables and booth segments from different lines share one container when a store's plan calls for all three, planned per store rather than per product line.

06From a set of six to a first wave of six hundred

Orders under 60 units per line are quoted at pilot price, with the sample made first and the drawing signed before the run. Past that, the price breaks come from how the frames nest on the tube bender rather than from a discount schedule.

Repeat waves keep the original drawing, the fabric roll number and the powder batch, so six chairs for a test room and six hundred for a rollout differ in quantity only.