Furniture & Fabrication
Furniture & fabrication covers everything that fits out and services a commercial kitchen and its front-of-house spaces: stainless steel tables, cupboards and sinks, kitchen extraction and ventilation, catering trolleys and shelving, plus restaurant and outdoor furniture for dining areas and beer gardens. It’s the go-to range for pubs, cafes, hotels, bistros and care homes fitting out or replacing kit, whether that’s a single stainless steel prep table or a full commercial kitchen extraction canopy and ducting run. Across the whole department, material and specification get matched to food-safety and building-regs requirements: stainless steel fabrication should be 304-grade for food contact areas, extraction systems need the right extraction rate (m³/h) and ducting diameter for the kitchen size, and outdoor furniture needs genuine weather resistance rather than just an “outdoor style” look.
Key specifications
Five sub-categories sit under this department: Extraction & Ventilation (canopies, fans, ducting, filters and pre-packaged Smart Vent systems), Outdoor Furniture & Heating (garden furniture, parasols and patio heaters for beer gardens and terraces), Restaurant Furniture (tables, chairs, bar stools and sets for dining areas), Stainless Steel & Fabrication (trolleys, shelving, sinks and taps) and Stainless Steel Tables & Cupboards (prep tables, cupboards, worktops and pedestals). Buyers typically start with a kitchen design or refit brief and work through extraction, fabrication and furniture in that order, since extraction and fabrication are usually fixed first and furniture last.
Furniture & Fabrication — FAQs
What’s included in commercial furniture and fabrication for catering?
It spans kitchen-side stainless steel fabrication (tables, cupboards, sinks, shelving, trolleys), extraction and ventilation systems, and front-of-house restaurant and outdoor furniture — essentially everything except cooking and refrigeration appliances themselves.
Do I need different suppliers for kitchen fabrication and restaurant furniture?
Not necessarily — many UK catering equipment suppliers stock both stainless steel fabrication and dining furniture, which simplifies delivery and after-sales support for a single fit-out project.