Chairs and stools for staff cafes, canteens and the corner where the coffee machine lives. The Nest Loop and Nest Edge stacking chairs are the workhorses, since they stack away when the room is needed for a briefing, and the Marlow bistro chair does the same job on a lighter frame. For counter and poseur height there are four stools: the Brayford and Charford high stools, and the lower Hepscott and Stowe bistro stools. Everything here is built to be wiped down rather than vacuumed, which is the real difference between this and breakout soft seating.
Choosing cafe and bistro chairs
Match the stool to the table, not to the picture. A dining height table around 720mm takes a seat around 450mm, which is where the Hepscott and Stowe stools sit, while a poseur table at roughly 1050mm needs a high stool such as the Brayford or Charford. Measure your existing tops first, or buy the pair together from the bistro and cafe tables page so the heights are known to work.
Then think about what the room does outside lunchtime. If it doubles as a training space, stacking is worth more than styling, and the stacking chairs page covers heavier duty options for larger numbers. Look for a footrest on any high stool, because feet dangling off a 750mm seat get uncomfortable within minutes, and check the floor: metal frames scuff vinyl over time, so felt glides are a cheap thing to add.
Tables and the rest of the space
Standing tables from the bar and poseur tables range keep queues moving near the counter, taller stools work along a window ledge, and a couple of breakout and shaped tables give people room to spread out a laptop. To specify tables and chairs as a set, the cafe and bistro collection puts them on one page.
Cafe seating supplied across Ipswich, Norwich and Essex
Office Masters is the online shop of Neil Andrew Office Solutions, a family run firm based at Edison Close on Ransomes Europark in Ipswich. The business dates back to the 1980s, when Neil worked alongside his father Malcolm, and today it supplies and installs across Suffolk, Essex and Norfolk. Chairs and stools go out to Norwich, Chelmsford, Bury St Edmunds and Felixstowe regularly, with free UK mainland delivery on standard orders within five working days.
Cafe chairs arrive in quantity, so pre-build and installation can be added and the packaging leaves with us. If you are unsure how many seats a room will take, send the dimensions with the counter position marked and we will sketch it out. Where an opening date has crept forward, the next working day upgrade covers it, and 01473 464644 gets you a straight answer on stock.
