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| Hey, Restaurant Guy, we're your customers. That's | | | | Comfortable bar stools offer commercial opportunity |
| right, we pay your bills - so listen up. Why are your bar | | | | for restaurant holding-tank bars. Given a comfy spot to |
| stools so uncomfortable? Do you really want us to | | | | cozy up to your bar, some of us might migrate to and |
| jump ship and move to another bar where we can | | | | nest in your operation during happy hour and when |
| adjust our attitude in comfort? Before you defend | | | | there is no restaurant wait. This extra income might |
| your bar stools, sit in one for thirty minutes without | | | | pay for comfortable bar stools. |
| getting up. Do you feel relieved to get up, or do you | | | | We insist on comfortable bar stools in drinking bars. |
| want to order another toddy and kick back. | | | | Without delving into the psychological manifestations, |
| There are thousands of attempts at bar stool design - | | | | your drinking bar exists so we can escape from |
| meaning no bar stool designer has yet gotten it right. | | | | whatever is bugging us. We come to you for relief. |
| Bar stool design is a classic case of function forgotten | | | | Whether the relief comes from a bottle, from |
| by form. It is obvious to us, just by inspection (even | | | | companionship, or from solitude - escaping reality is |
| more so by imperiling our posteriors), that bar stools | | | | impossible when your bar stool keeps hounding our |
| are designed and selected for appearance - not for | | | | heinies back into real time. |
| our comfort. Somewhere there has to be an annual | | | | Since designers have yet to produce the perfect bar |
| international competition for "The World's Most | | | | stool, we will give you a shopping list of features for |
| Uncomfortable Bar stool." Judges would sit designers in | | | | you as a bar operator to look for when replacing your |
| their own creations and observe their pained | | | | bar stools. |
| expressions to establish each bar stool's discomfort | | | | 1) Large, soft padded seat - essential! A real positive |
| index. A perennial winner must to be the grape-pattern | | | | for the plentiful posterior. |
| cast iron bar stool: cast iron legs, cast iron seat, cast | | | | 2) Soft padded back - prevents back pain. Don't |
| iron arms and cast iron back. It takes two people to | | | | bother with a bar stool back unless it's comfortable. |
| move one of these horrors, and the discomfort index | | | | 3) Swivel seat - prevents neck pain when talking to or |
| is just below "The Iron Maiden" used in the Spanish | | | | ogling the person next to us. |
| Inquisition. | | | | 4) Arms - nice, but optional. They take up room and |
| Some importance has to be attached to the type of | | | | might debilitate another bar patron if we swivel |
| bar you operate. All bars can be lumped into three | | | | suddenly. |
| categories: 1) drinking bars, including those that serve | | | | 5) Adjustable footrest - prevents leg cramps while |
| some food; 2) holding-tanks for restaurant diners | | | | dangling in midair. |
| waiting to be seated; 3) body shops whose denizens | | | | 6) Roller casters - make it easy to pull ourselves up to |
| prowl for companionship. | | | | the bar. Also useful for wheeling overly relaxed |
| Body shop bar stools require the least comfort. Sitting | | | | patrons out to a cab. |
| too long in a body shop might be construed negatively | | | | Then of course, there is the one style bar stool as yet |
| and be self defeating in our quest for Mr. or Ms. | | | | not attempted - The Recliner! The first bar with |
| Goodbar. Hence, we must mingle - not stake a bar | | | | reclining bar stools will become a tourist attraction. |
| claim. An uncomfortable bar stool is a reminder to | | | | |