- Banquettes
- Modular restaurant tables
- Personalizing wood restaurant tabletops
- Mixing material palettes to define spaces
- Resurgence in reclaimed wood products
- Bright & bold colors
- Large wall art & murals
1. Banquettes
Recent years have seen a movement away from traditional seating and an explosion in communal seating arrangements. Banquettes, which maximize a restaurant’s dining space by combining the use of a continuous bench or booth with movable chairs and tables, have become one of the most popular restaurant design trends in 2020. Banquettes take up much less area per customer than a typical free-standing 2-top or 4-top table, as they make full use of the wall space within a restaurant’s dining area. Banquettes and other communal seating styles evoke memories of cozy, at-home dining experiences and create more social atmospheres. You’ll have a lot of new space to work with! So go ahead and get creative mixing shapes and sizes to make your restaurant banquettes unique.2. Modular Tables
As restaurant design trends in 2020 show a rise in communal dining, many restaurant owners are opting for restaurant tables that can be joined together to create larger communal tables. This marks a more pronounced shift away from round tables, which are great for smaller groups, but take up more space and can’t be combined with other tables to allow for larger communal seating. When you are sizing your wood restaurant tables, it’s important to keep their intended function as well as your ideal number of seats in mind.
For restaurant owners that can’t decide between the benefits of round and rectangular modular tables, there is the option of square to round flip-up tables, aka drop-leaf tables, whose dimensions can be changed depending on the circumstance. However, beware of the shortcomings that accompany their adjustability. Flip-up tables are considerably more expensive and heavier than their non-transforming counterparts.
If you need a 30”x48” table and you’re unsure if a table larger than that would be a better choice, we recommend simply ordering another 30”x48” table that can be combined with it to increase your seating capacity. In the instance that you don’t need to fully double your tabletop size to seat larger groups we recommend pairing up your 30”x48” table with a 24”x30” or 30”x30” table.
If you are concerned about the table tops’ planks all running the same direction, no problem! We often make 30”x24” tables instead, with the 30” side being the distance across the planks and the 24” side being their length. These create a seamless look when the tables are combined, as the grain all runs in the same direction. Connecting smaller tables is also more budget-friendly, as smaller tables have a much lower shipping cost. One 12-foot-long table will often cost twice as much to ship than two 6-foot-long tables.
3. Personalized Restaurant Tabletops
Sometimes a standard design doesn’t do enough to embody the feel of a restaurant. One of the rising restaurant design trends in 2020 is the use of personalized table tops. Personalizing table tops with things like branded logos, a custom thickness, and radius. Branded or Vinyl logos can express a restaurant’s identity uniquely and give a restaurant dining room a more cohesive feel.
Do you have a modern restaurant that calls for clean lines and thin tables? We’ve done it. Are you going for an industrial look with textures? Try 2 ¼” thick tables with a rustic texture that can be cleaned over 50 times a day for decades without issue. How about making sure your customer never forgets the name of your restaurant? We’ll brand your logo right onto your table so they can see it, touch it and, most importantly, remember it. Do you hate the idea of a carpeted restaurant dining room, but are unsure of how to bring the decibel level down? Keep your sleek floors; we can install sound dampening material to the underside of your tables that can bring those noise levels down by as much as 20-30%.
Nothing is too out-of-the-box when trying to set your restaurant design apart! After all, if everyone allowed for these personalizations, we would just be another restaurant tabletop manufacturer.
