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CMV: Restaurants shouldn't have high-top tables.

I have noticed that more and more restaurants in my area (Cleveland) are changing their interior seating to mostly high-top tables. I understand some people don't mind them, but I think they're inferior to the traditional table.

* Because they are elevated, they are **not as simple for all types of people to get up on the chairs comfortably**. Notably children, elders, and overweight people. Bars will have these types of chairs as well, but children are not allowed to sit at the bar (at least here) so it becomes less of an issue. But a bar will have multiple options for seating. Not just the bar area, usually. 

* Places to put your feet are typically just under your chair. And this length varies on the type of chair. A traditional table has the ground, where you can place your feet anywhere. Your typical bar has these high top chairs, sure, but there's always a place to put your feet that's separate from the chair. **It is meant to be comfortable to sit in.**

* **High-top tables are *not* handicap accessible** (This kind of goes along with my first point, but I felt it was important for it to have its own). Normal tables are the tried and true area for all ages and types of people to eat at. Anything superior would possibly be the floor, but then you have things like cleanliness come into factor with that.

* There is no doubt in my mind that** high-top tables are more expensive compared to a traditional table.** Higher price to replace, higher initial cost, and it uses more lumber and other materials. Higher cost for interior furniture for a restaurant could leads to higher menu prices to offset the (1) business they're losing because they cannot seat all demographics, as mentioned above, and (2) higher price of the actual tables and chairs.

* **Accessibility to servers.** High top tables make it more difficult to get around the customers and place food and drinks on the table. I have never been a waiter myself, nor do I know anyone close that was or is, but I've been to enough restaurants in my day to know that I have to pass plates or drinks to other people in my group if our waiter isn't tall enough, or if there isn't enough room for them to fit. Lower (traditional) tables allows the server to be many feet taller than the people sitting down and that gives them a better advantage to place the food and drinks onto the table.

**So to summarize, high-top tables aren't as comfortable to sit at, to sit in for longer periods of time, and restaurants lose business therefore lose money by using high-top tables instead of the traditional table. And at what gain? To look more modern? To segregate your clientele to disclude old people, children, and overweight people? That's just a bad decision and to see more and more restaurants in my area moving to them I can't see the point.**

Please, reddit, Change My View.
gpt
In your summary, you get to the point of why high tops are desirable - people don't want to sit at them as long.  If people don't linger at their table after their meal, you can seat a new paying customer there faster.  

Getting people to spend less time at the table is a feature, not a bug, from the perspective of a restaurant owner.