Stacking restaurant chairs

A dining hall resets three times a day. Chairs that stack decide how long that takes and how much floor the stacks will steal. These 96 chairs are mostly metal and aluminum, with banquet, Chiavari and tolix-style frames. Count chairs by your largest seated event, then check where the stacks will stand between bookings.

Rooms that change

An event venue clears the floor for a dance after dinner. A campus dining hall seats lunch, then hosts a lecture. A club function room turns from a board meeting to a wedding in an afternoon. Each of those rooms needs chairs that stack, and each needs the stacks to go somewhere close.

Ninety-four carry a stackable listing, and 52 of those say how high they go, most often 5 or 8 chairs and up to 15. The other three do not say, so plan them as single carries. Tolix-style frames number 29 and have their own page under tolix chairs. Banquet frames come to 20, and the padded event chairs sit under banquet chairs. Four are Chiavari, the light spindled chair of the wedding reception, and Chiavari chairs gathers the full group.

Frames, seats and the long event

By frame, the page runs 54 metal, 25 aluminum and eight steel. Five aluminum frames carry a bamboo look. Underneath a guest you will find fabric 38 times, vinyl 34 times and bare metal 26 times. A gala dinner of three hours wants a padded seat and back, and 37 chairs list a padded back. A quick lunch or a taproom event can sit on metal.

Listed seat heights gather around 18 3/4 inches, which suits a banquet table at the usual dining height. Arms appear on ten chairs, and they widen each row.

Inside and out

Patio use is listed on 42 chairs here, and indoor use on 87; plenty carry both. That suits a venue whose terrace opens for the summer season and whose chairs come back inside for winter. Keep anything without a patio listing indoors, and give the terrace chairs their own count, since the room inside will want its full set on the same night the terrace opens.

A stackable aluminum dining chair is listed at 18 3/4 inches wide, 23 deep and 34 3/4 high, a fair size to plan a banquet row around. Single chairs start around $53 and reach $262. For rooms that need both stacking chairs and folding storage, folding chairs is one page over. Write each room's setups, banquet, theater and dinner, into venue plans, so the count of chairs follows the biggest one.