Arabic Jalsah for Restaurants, Cut to Your Dining Room

Low floor seating with firm backrests suits a tight room, because it needs no frame behind it and sits flat against the wall. A wall-length bench with tables in front is the other compact option, and a wooden base can hide storage under the seat. Send a floor plan with the table layout.

Cushion-only orders for contractor-built benches are a normal route. Send each run's length, seat depth and base height, plus where corners and outlets fall. The team turns that into a piece-by-piece cutting list for your sign-off, so every seat, backrest and armrest lands where the carpenter expects it.

Restaurant seating is quoted from your wall-to-wall measurements, the model and the seat thickness, so custom runs have no fixed list. Send a floor plan or a short video with every wall length and the doors and windows marked, and you get a layout drawing with an itemized quote.

Majlis runs, wooden benches and low tables can share one restaurant project and one layout drawing. Send a floor plan with every seating run, angled corners included, and the table count. Wooden pieces take longer to make than foam sets — ask us for the current schedule.

Seat cushions can be cut shorter, and depth can drop from the standard 27.5 in (70 cm) to about 19.5 in (50 cm) or 23.5 in (60 cm), though seats that shallow feel tight over a long meal. Bench frames stay in fixed lengths, so the designer pairs frame sizes with the wall and leaves room to walk.

Chairs and general restaurant furniture are outside the range. What restaurants can order is Arabic-style seating: wooden bench sets with cushions, backrests and armrests, plus majlis and floor seating cut to each room. A bench sits about 16 in (40 cm) high with its cushion, close to chair height.

Mid-tone colors and busy patterns hide marks between deep cleans better than pale plains. Faux leather is offered in plain colors only. Covers come off by zip and can go through a gentle 86°F (30°C) machine wash.

Abrasion figures need care too: a contract textiles association notes that ratings above 100,000 double rubs do not predict a longer service life. Choose by weave and color, and check a swatch from the sample box under your own lights.

Private rooms are drawn one at a time, usually as an L or a U, because no two rooms share the same walls. Backrests come in two builds: wooden, the sturdier choice, or full foam, which is lighter. Where a room already has a built platform, the seat cushion can be left out and only backrests and armrests ordered.

• Every outlet, switch and radiator on a seating wall, measured from a fixed corner.
• Columns and door swings, so runs stop short of them.
• Clear aisles to each exit, as your local code sets them.
• Whether benches are fixed to the wall or floor; that fixing is your contractor's job.

When a fire official or landlord wants fabric documents, include that written requirement in your first enquiry; the team matches candidate fabrics to it and tells you straight away if none qualifies.

Give the opening date before anything else. Ready-made sets are packed soon after payment — ask us for the current dispatch time. Production time depends on your layout and the season — ask us for the current schedule. Wooden pieces take longer to make than foam sets — ask us for the current schedule.

A practical plan is to open with standard modules on the main wall and add the custom corners once the room is finished. The team tells you early if a date is out of reach.