Booth and banquette reupholstery and repair

Restaurant booth seat repair is often a single seat: a split seam, a burst seat front, or a cushion that has gone flat. We recover that one seat and colour-match the fabric to the rest of the run, so you do not have to redo the whole row. The honest part is the match. Fabric that has faded over a few years will not sit identically beside new cloth, so before we quote we tell you whether a single seat will pass beside the old ones or whether recovering the whole booth is the better call. The same answer applies to a banquette section.

For booth reupholstering across a dining room we strip each section back, re-foam it and rebuild it. A booth run is the biggest single item in most dining rooms, so we price it after a look at how it is built, by the section or by the linear metre. A straight booth with a plain back is a different job from a fluted, buttoned or curved one, and the quote says which you have. If the existing foam is uneven or tired we say so before quoting, because new fabric over collapsed foam is a poor result.

Banquette upholstery covers wall runs, window seating and corner banquettes. Along a wall or window the base is often built by a joiner with a thin pad on top, so 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. Brass-headed nail trim or piping can be added to match your existing fittings.

Not every booth can be moved. 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 Stalybridge workshop to be stripped, re-foamed and rebuilt. Either way we check how the seating is fixed before the quote is final. The site visit is free for venue jobs within about 15 miles of the workshop, and further afield by arrangement.

Wipe-clean vinyl is the usual choice for booths and the seats nearest the kitchen: it cleans with a damp cloth between covers. 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. 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, and the handover pack holds the certificates and care instructions.

• The Townhouse Hotel, Manchester: a curved booth run of about 70 linear feet, recovered alongside 70 chairs to BS 7176 Crib 5, with no closure of the brasserie.
• Tesco staff room booths: seat-only recover of four 4 ft booth benches in a staff canteen, in Sunbury contract fabric in Moss, fitted in a single visit.
• The Black Bull pub refit: booths done first, with the pub closed for one evening, then banquettes in Crib 5 wool with brass-headed nail trim.
• Preston pub seating section: frame inspected, foam checked and the failed cover stripped before the visible faces were rebuilt, with fabric, foam and labour quoted separately.
• Kitchen banquette for a trade account: an L-shaped banquette built by the client and upholstered by us, in cream chenille with tartan-check back panels.

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, so tell us when you are shut and the latest you can reopen.

This page covers the seating itself. If you run a pub or bar and want the whole picture, including bar stools and counter fronts, start with pub seating upholstery and bar reupholstery. For the room as a whole, see restaurant and café seating, hotel furniture reupholstery and the hospitality overview. Contract work in other sectors is covered on our commercial upholstery page.

A photo of each booth or banquette run and of any damaged seat, roughly how many metres of fixed seating you have, whether the run lifts out, which days you are closed and any colour or fabric you must match. Send them through a booth and banquette quote request or on WhatsApp. We price it itemised.

Booth and banquette work starts at our Stalybridge workshop and reaches venues in Stalybridge, Ashton-under-Lyne, Hyde, Dukinfield, Mossley, Denton, Glossop, Oldham, Stockport, Manchester and Salford.

• Pub seating upholstery and bar reupholstery: pub benches, bar stools and counter fronts
• Restaurant and café seating: dining chairs, café fixed seating and bar chairs
• Foam replacement and cut to size: new foam for collapsed bench and booth seating
• Repairs and restoration: frame tightening and seam repairs
• Commercial upholstery: how contract jobs run from brief to handover