Restaurants & cafés upholstery.

A booth run is the biggest single item in most dining rooms, so we price it after a look at how it is built. Restaurant booth reupholstery is quoted per linear metre, with seat-only runs at the lower end and seat, back and curved or fluted runs at the upper end. A straight booth with a plain back is a very different job from a fluted, buttoned or curved one, and the quote says which you have. Where a run is fixed to the wall or floor and cannot move, we recover it in place; where it lifts out, sections come back to the workshop to be stripped, re-foamed and rebuilt. The structure underneath is usually sound, which is why recovering costs a fraction of replacing.

Restaurant booth repair is often a single seat: a split seam, a burst seat front, a cushion that has gone to nothing. We recover that one seat and match it to the others. The honest part is matching, because fabric that has faded over a few years will not sit identically beside new cloth. We tell you before quoting whether a single seat will pass beside the old ones or whether recovering the whole booth is the better call. The detail is on our pub and booth seating page, which also covers per-metre pricing.

Café banquettes tend to be shorter runs along a wall or window, often with a bench base built by a joiner and a thin pad on top. We rebuild the pad on the existing base, replace foam that has collapsed, and recover in a fabric that survives a coffee spill. Where the base itself has shifted or the plywood has cracked, that is quoted as a separate line so you can see what is wear and what is repair.

Loose chairs are recovered in matched batches so the room does not end up with two shades of the same green. A seat pad that has only worn on top is the cheapest job; chairs with seat and back padding cost more, and a loose frame is tightened and reglued first. A batch can go through the workshop while the chairs you are not using stay on the floor. See dining chair reupholstery for the types we cover, and bar stool reupholstery for stools and bar chairs at the counter or coffee bar.

Most restaurants choose between a wipe-clean vinyl or faux leather and a woven contract fabric. Vinyl cleans with a damp cloth between covers, takes a sauce splash without a mark, and is the usual choice for booths and the seats nearest the kitchen. Woven fabric reads warmer and suits quieter rooms, bar areas and evening-only service, but it needs a regular clean and shows wear sooner. Faux leather sits between the two. Send us a photo of the room and we will say which has lasted best in similar places.

Public seating must pass Crib 5, over combustion-modified foam. Where the fabric you like is not natively Crib 5, we have it treated and certificated. When the job is finished you receive a handover pack with the Crib 5 certificates and care instructions, ready for your insurer, your licence file or the fire-risk assessment. The same standard applies at our hotel work, including the Townhouse brasserie in Manchester.

Tell us when you are shut. Loose chairs and stools can leave in batches and come back before service; a single banquette can turn around overnight; a longer run is split into sections and done on closed days, so a dining room never loses all its seating at once. For a full-room refit we plan the sequence backwards from your reopening date. This is the same phased approach we use across the wider hospitality sector.

A photo of each type of seat, roughly how many metres of fixed seating you have, how many chairs and stools, which days you are closed, and any colour or fabric you must match. A restaurant quote request takes a few minutes, or send the photos on WhatsApp. We price it itemised and, for venue jobs, visit free before the final figure.

Restaurant and cafe seating from our Stalybridge workshop reaches Stalybridge, Ashton-under-Lyne, Hyde, Dukinfield, Mossley, Denton, Glossop, Oldham, Stockport, Manchester and Salford. Booths and banquettes are phased around service, and the site visit is free for venue jobs within about 15 miles of the workshop (further afield by arrangement).

• Pub seating and banquettes – per-metre fixed seating and single booth seat repair
• Dining chair reupholstery – chairs recovered in matched batches
• Bar stool reupholstery – stools and counter chairs
• Hotels – brasserie seating, lobby chairs and headboards
• Hospitality upholstery – pubs, bars, restaurants and hotels