Restaurant furniture has taken various shapes, styles, designs and sizes since it was first used for the commercial purpose many decades ago. Since then, a lot of furniture items have been widely used by restaurant owners to attract, serve and entertained customers. Although there is a long and exhaustive variety of furniture available in the furniture market in all corners of the world, yet rustic restaurant furniture has been making a trend in recent years. Rustic furniture consists of tables or chairs that have been hand-finished with man-made distressing to give it the appearance of old age. This sort of furniture can also be created by using lower grade solid wood, either of oak or hickory, with different colors with each piece of solid wood supported by knots, and pin holes.

Some manufacturers have carved out a niche doing log style furniture. This log furniture is made in USA using solid hickory, with the option of leaving on or off the tree bark. Furniture products are kilned dried, assembled, and coated with a pre-cat finish. When compared to other popular types of restaurant furniture, the furniture made of hickory species ensures all the chairs to be extremely strong. We can weight and test the rustic furniture products for their strength. It ensures that rustic furniture is just as strong if not stronger than imported restaurant furniture. That is why it is widely used in restaurants, hotels and eating establishments for commercial purposes.

Rustic restaurant tables have been popular recently, especially with community tables or gathering tables. Again the same distressing option is available or choosing a lower grade of solid wood is another way of reaching the same look. The thing that makes rustic furniture useful for restaurants of all sizes and types is its affordability. Being a cheap alternative to costly and expensive furniture, rustic furniture helps restaurant owners save more money.

Bentwood and twig work are the two basic types of rustic-furniture construction that are prominently used by many companies, artists and craftspeople to make rustic furniture in a variety of styles with a fine and elegant touch of historical and contemporary influences. When we talk about the utility and value of contemporary rustic furniture in today perspective, we find that present-day manufacturers of rustic furniture are still able to craft architectural details such as bridges, porches, banisters, stairs, chandeliers and complete works showing essence of rustic architecture and styles.