Restaurant patio furniture without some way to drain water

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This is on the restaurant for not purchasing all-weather chairs. There’s nothing crappy about the design if it’s used as intended (under cover).

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u/ronin442 9d ago

Very true

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u/Evening-Cat-7546 9d ago

They could just lean the chairs against the table so that rain can’t pool on the seat, or even flip it onto the table. Terrible decision by restaurant to order the wrong chairs, and then do nothing to fix the issue.

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u/Nisms 9d ago

My fix is drill a hole right in the center of the crease then you can be as lazy as you want

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u/HerbLoew 9d ago

Why not just buy the pre-drilled ones to begin with?

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u/DookieShoez 9d ago

Well of course they shoulda but sometimes ya gotta make due with what ya got.

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u/BepSquad22 9d ago

That was my first thought. Store the chairs upside down on top of the table at night and flip them over in the morning. (As long as there's no rain in the forecast)

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u/ebrum2010 7d ago

That sounds like standard business practice to me. Many businesses will get the cheaper item and then not worry about it.

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u/bondagenurse 9d ago

They are supposed to be indoor-outdoor chairs. They are either a dupe or actual Heller Bellini chairs from DWR, $300/each!

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u/ebrum2010 7d ago

That's even worse.

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u/Laziness2945 9d ago

Who the fuck would spend 300$ for 0.35cent of plastic?

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u/ledocteur7 9d ago edited 9d ago

That's sheet metal. And even in the poorest cesspit of china you aren't getting a brand new high-ish quality plastic chair for 0.35 cents.

300$ is still pretty expensive, but it's not horrendously overpriced. Although sheet metal chairs get really cold (and very hot) outside, so I still wouldn't want to sit in it if I had the choice.

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u/Material-Afternoon16 7d ago

If this is a Heller chair and not a knock off, these are not sheet metal chairs, they are fiberglass reinforced polypropylene.

The price is high because they are made as one piece, not flat pack. Quality control is rigid, and the warranty is good. They are of a quality suitable for heavy commercial use. They are also made in the US so you are paying a big up charge on the labor vs. a foreign, third-world made product.

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u/bondagenurse 8d ago

but it's designer plastic!

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u/BadatOldSayings 9d ago

That looks 100% like an outdoor chair.

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u/Kimorin This is why we can't have nice things 9d ago

seems like an easy fix, just drill a hole in the middle close to the back

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u/Sufficient-Garden271 9d ago

Or a soldering iron. It will make a weird scent but it works too.

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u/ronin442 9d ago

Right?

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u/ImCuriousYouSee 9d ago

Center would be best

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u/BlakLite_15 9d ago

Geeeuuaaauugghhh

This image aggravates my sensory issues.

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u/rockstuffs 9d ago

Tip it and wipe it. Tah dahhh!

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u/reallynothingmuch 9d ago

It’s ice

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u/campingn00b 9d ago

Even easier

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u/rockstuffs 9d ago

Still, wipe and dry lol

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u/Smeeble09 9d ago

Then lift, and sliiiiiiiiiide.

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u/FakeMedea You want it free and fast? Don't expect it to be good! 9d ago

So many question, like
Why only the benches have mesh as surface? Why that patio table have parasol stand yet still forming puddle on the chair? Is it broken? Are the employees too lazy to deploy that parasol? Or just too lazy to put the chair upside down on the table?

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u/fatjuan 9d ago

Just buy a pack of 100 stick-on 1/4" holes from Temu, then attach them (when they are dry, of course).

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u/Silverbluezz 6d ago

😂

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u/atom644 9d ago

I have a 5/8 bit for that

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u/CallumRichardson2009 9d ago

it’s called, lift chair up, tilt, and dry with hoodie! (or sit inside.)

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u/Jemeloo 8d ago

I will always find this chair in a restaurant’s patio and sit on it without looking.

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u/Argentillion 8d ago

The restaurant didn’t design the chair…

This isn’t crappy design at all. It is just a matter of the wrong application

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u/pentesticals 9d ago

No one is sitting outside if the weather is shit and it’s cold enough to freeze the water. It ain’t a big problem.

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u/chain_letter 9d ago

nice weather a day or even two after rain and the chair will still be wet

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u/gorgofdoom 8d ago

Not if the staff wipe the chair off, like they’d have to do no matter if the chair has a hole In it or not.

(Not gonna happen while it’s below freezing, no one would use it anyway)

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u/Aggleclack 9d ago

What about places where rain is a daily occurrence between sweltering heat, like Florida?

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u/wgloipp 9d ago

Fine if used as designed. Under cover.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

It doesn’t need a way to drain. It can just use the surprise absorption method.

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u/Drifter_Lucas 5d ago

I hate getting my pant seat wet.

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u/air-bender808 2d ago

Better on the end than in the middle? Lol could be worse?

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u/gorgofdoom 8d ago

Sir that is actually frozen.

Are you gonna sit outside in the freezing temps? Or could they just wipe it off if it wasn’t frozen?