Restaurant and hospitality furniture

Restaurant furniture, made at rollout scale.

We manufacture seating, tables, outdoor furniture and stainless steel fixtures for quick-service restaurants, cafés and hospitality brands. Every process in our own factory, the capacity to furnish a national rollout, and our own lab to prove what we make.

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4,000 m²of factory floor, with spare bent-ply press capacity

10in-house departments, from bent-ply presses to stainless steel and upholstery

Own labevery new design tested before it goes into production

35+ yearsof know-how behind every piece, powered by Jacobs

Capacity

One design, made identically for every store.

A restaurant brand needs the same chair, table and counter in every store, in the hundreds, to one standard. That takes capacity: presses, tube bending, welding, coating and upholstery that can run a full programme without sub-contracting work out.

We have all of it under one roof, and we already manufacture to an international restaurant brand's specification, store after store.

Outdoor furniture going in on a new restaurant terrace.

What we make

Four product families. Far more capability.

These are the ranges we build most. Behind them is a factory that works in timber, plywood, steel, stainless steel and fabric, so if it can be drawn, we can make it to your specification.

Restaurant and café furniture

Chairs, stools, benches, booths and tables in bent ply, laminate, timber, steel and upholstery.

Outdoor and terrace furniture

Powder-coated steel and weather-grade tops, built for sun and coastal air, shipped flat-packed.

Stainless steel fabrication

Café and back-of-house units, counters, cabinets and frames, including marine-grade.

New

SmartStack

The stacking exam and classroom desk. Our one product for schools.

Explore SmartStack →

What our factory can do

Bent plywoodCNC tube bendingRobotic weldingLaser cuttingStainless steel, including marine-gradePowder coatingUpholsteryCNC routing and joineryVeneer pressingPolished and plated bar and rod

…and a whole lot more. If it can be drawn in timber, plywood, steel, stainless steel or fabric, talk to us.

See what we make See our factory

How we work

Three steps from drawing to dining room.

Send us the specification.

Drawings, a design manual or a brief. We price it, and tell you what we would change to make it last longer or cost less.

Approve a sample.

We make a prototype, test it in our lab, and you sign it off before production starts.

We make and deliver.

Production to the approved sample, at the volume the programme needs, checked and recorded before dispatch.

New from Kingdom

SmartStack: one desk for the classroom and the exam hall.

It stacks into one column, rolls away on its own dolly, and comes in your school's colours.

See SmartStack

Safety and durability testing

We test what we make.

Our own laboratory runs BIFMA test methods on every new design, and on pieces pulled at random from production. We also test for other manufacturers.

Inside the lab

35 years of know-how behind every piece.

Jacobs Joinery & Shopfitters has built shop, restaurant and hospitality interiors for national and international brands for more than 35 years, and provides the technical know-how and experience behind everything Kingdom makes.

When a project needs the whole interior, from ceilings and joinery to signage and electrical, Jacobs builds it around our furniture.

About Kingdom Visit jacobsshopfitters.com

Planning a new format or a rollout?

Tell us what you're building and how many stores it's for. We'll show you how we'd make it, and what it costs.

Start a conversation

What we make

Made to your specification.

We build to a brand's drawings and design manual, or develop the design with you from a brief. One sample or a national rollout, the process is the same.

01 · Indoor

Restaurant and café furniture.

Dine-in seating and tables for quick-service restaurants, cafés and hotels: chairs, high stools, benches, booth seating, feature tables and loose tables.

We press our own bent plywood, bend and weld our own frames, and do our own upholstery and powder coating, so finishes and dimensions match from the first store to the hundredth.

Bent plywoodLaminate and veneerSolid timberSteel tube and plateUpholstery

02 · Outdoor

Outdoor and terrace furniture.

Terrace furniture has to survive high UV, coastal salt air, wide temperature swings and the cleaning that comes with a busy restaurant. Ours uses powder-coated steel frames and weather-grade tops, and is tested in our own lab.

It ships flat-packed, so a full order travels in fewer loads and goes together on site with simple tools.

03 · Stainless steel

Stainless steel fabrication.

Café and back-of-house units, counters, cabinets, sink and ice units, frames and trims, cut, folded and welded in our own metal shop, in food-safe grades and marine-grade stainless steel.

04 · Custom

Made to your drawings, or to ours.

Have a design that no catalogue carries? We prototype it, test it and refine it with you, then hold it as a standard, so every reorder matches the first.

If you have a brief rather than drawings, we develop the design with you and draw it up for your approval before anything is made.

05 · For schools

SmartStack: one desk for the classroom and the exam hall.

Our one product for schools stacks into one column and rolls away on its own dolly.

See SmartStack

Send us your specification.

Drawings, a design manual or a one-page brief. We'll come back with a price and a plan for the sample.

Start a conversation

Our factory

Everything under one roof.

Our factory has every process a commercial furniture order needs, so every part of an order is made, finished and checked by our own people, at the volume a restaurant rollout needs.

4,000 m²of factory floor

Processes

From sheet, tube and board to finished furniture.

Bent plywood

High-frequency presses form seats, backs and tops in our own moulds, so every part in a run matches.

CNC tube bending

Steel and stainless steel tube shaped to the programme, bend for bend, from the first frame to the last.

Welding

Robotic and hand welding for frames, bases and fabrications.

Laser cutting

Steel plate and sheet cut to the drawing, ready to fold and weld.

Stainless steel

Cut, folded, welded and polished, including marine-grade.

Powder coating

Our own coating line, for interior and exterior grades. It decides how long outdoor furniture lasts, so we don't sub-contract it.

Upholstery

Seats, backs and booth seating cut and upholstered in our own workshop.

CNC machining and joinery

Panels, tops and timber parts machined on CNC routers and finished by hand.

Quality

Checked before it leaves.

Every order is checked against its drawing and approved sample, wrapped, labelled pallet by pallet and recorded before dispatch.

New designs and random pieces from production go through our own testing laboratory.

Inside the lab

See it for yourself.

Factory visits are by appointment. Tell us what you're planning and we'll show you how we'd make it.

Arrange a visit

Safety and durability testing

We test what we make.

Kingdom runs its own furniture testing laboratory. Every design is tested before it goes into production, and finished pieces are pulled off the line at random and tested again, so what we deliver meets the standard of what we designed.

Standards

Tested to recognised methods.

We test to ANSI/BIFMA methods, the North American standards for commercial and institutional furniture: X5.4 for public and lounge seating and X5.5 for desks and tables.

Where a client specifies them, we also test to EN (European) and GB (Chinese national) methods.

What we test

Years of use, compressed into days.

Durability

Seat and back loads applied thousands of times, to find fatigue before a customer does.

Impact and drop

The knocks of stacking, transport and daily use.

Static load and stability

Seats, tops, frames and joints under heavy load; tip-over in every direction.

Finishes

Coating, abrasion and clean-down on every finish.

For other manufacturers

Testing as a service.

Bring us a chair, desk or table and we'll test it to the standard your client asks for, and give you a written report with photographs.

Tell us the product, the standard and your deadline, and we'll quote the test programme.

Book a test

About Kingdom Furniture

Our mission is to surpass your expectations, every time.

Kingdom Furniture manufactures furniture and stainless steel fixtures for restaurant, café and hospitality brands. We make to our clients' specifications, in our own factory, and we test what we make in our own laboratory.

What we stand for

Three promises, on every order.

On specification.

Every piece matches the approved sample, from the first store to the last.

At scale.

The capacity to make one design in the hundreds, to the same standard, in our own factory.

Proven.

We test it before we ship it, in our own lab.

Vision and mission

To instil trust and confidence in all our clients.

Our mission is to give every client a finished product and service that is consistently superior in quality and execution.

Jacobs Joinery & Shopfitters.

For more than 35 years Jacobs has built shop, restaurant and hospitality interiors for national and international brands.

Jacobs is the backbone of Kingdom Furniture, providing the technical know-how and experience behind everything we make. Kingdom makes the furniture; Jacobs builds the interior around it.

Level 2 B-BBEE contributor.

Visit jacobsshopfitters.com

Let's talk about your project.

Tell us what you're building and how many sites it's for.

Kingdom Furniture Academy of Skills

“A hand up, not a handout.”

The Academy trains unemployed young South Africans in practical workshop skills and the habits employers value, on a working factory site, so they add value to an employer from their first day.

25%of the cost of training is contributed by each student, in money or in time

Day onegraduates leave ready to add value to an employer

How it works

Selected, trained, assessed and placed.

Who we take

Unemployed young people who are committed to learning. Applicants need a minimum level of schooling and English, and are interviewed and vetted before they're accepted.

A hand up

Every student contributes 25% of the cost of training. Those who can't pay give time back to the Academy instead. Sponsors and government training programmes fund the rest.

The training

Practical workshop skills, taught on the same site as the Kingdom factory, so students learn in a real working environment.

Assessment

Attendance, punctuality, sobriety, attitude and ability to adapt are assessed throughout. Students know from day one that employers can see their record.

Certification

Graduates receive a Kingdom Furniture Academy certificate of completion.

Placement

Kingdom recruits from its best graduates, and helps the others into work with other employers.

Sponsor a student.

Sponsoring a student puts a trained, assessed young person into the workforce, and can count as skills development spend on your B-BBEE scorecard.

Sponsor one student or a whole intake. We report on progress and outcomes for every student you fund.

Become a sponsor

One desk for the classroom and the exam hall.

SmartStack stacks into one column and rolls away on its own dolly. Made in your school’s colours, in our own factory.

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The storeroom

A whole room, lost to desks.

Stored the usual way, in pairs, 510 ordinary desks fill a room wall to wall, with one narrow path down the side. It’s a room the school pays for and can’t use. And for every exam, someone carries them all out again.

Concept image. Stored in pairs, 510 ordinary desks take about 76 m² of floor.

Robotics club

Music practice

Drama workshop

Table tennis

The room, back

There are 510 exam desks
in this room.

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Concept images.

How it works

Set out the hall. Stack it away. Get the room back.

It stacks

Each desk nests on the one below. Nothing to fold, unclip or carry separately.

It rolls away

A full stack tips onto its dolly and moves as one, through a standard doorway.

It’s in your colours

Frame, ply layers and crest to your brand, so every campus has the same desk.

Colour in the ply

Colour in every layer.

The top is pressed from thin layers of plywood, and alternate layers can be laid up in your colours. Every edge carries a fine stripe in them, and because the colour is in the plywood itself, it never scratches or wears off.

Your school, in every desk.

Howick High School edition; stainless steel and black oak; anthracite and walnut; signal red and light grey. Concept renders.

Howick High pilot project

A real-world trial,
in a working school.

Kingdom Furniture and Howick High School put 32 SmartStack desks into daily classroom and exam use as a pilot, branded for the collaboration to show what the front panel can carry. Learners and staff use them every day, and their feedback comes straight back to us to shape the desk.

32desks in
daily use

2modes: classroom
and exam hall

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year

[Quotation from Howick High School, to be supplied and approved by the school.][Name, title], Howick High School

Photography: Jacobs Joinery & Shopfitters · Howick High School pilot, 2026.

Made and tested

Made in our own factory.
Tested in our own lab.

The design is tested in our own BIFMA testing facility, and desks are pulled at random off the production line and tested too, so the desk you receive meets the standard of the design.

Static and cyclic load: top, frame and joints.
Impact and drop: the knocks of stacking, transport and daily use.
Stability and surface: tip-over, abrasion, stain and clean-down.

For school groups and sponsors

One desk across every campus.

One specification, made to each school’s or brand’s colours, ordered centrally and delivered stacked on dollies, ready to set out. For sponsors: branded desks donated to a school can count as Socio-Economic Development spend on the B-BBEE scorecard.

Specification

The essentials.

Top	Bent plywood, laminate-faced. Any Formica colour, woodgrain or veneer laminate; printed artwork on the front panel.
Ply edge	Natural, or alternate ply layers in your colours.
Frame	Round steel tube, welded and powder-coated. Black as standard, any colour to order, or brushed stainless steel.
Size	710 high, 590 wide, 544 deep.
Stacking	Nests desk on desk; moves on the SmartStack Dolly.
Order	Minimum 20 desks. Lead time 4–6 weeks from confirmed order and artwork sign-off.

SmartStack brochurePDF

Enquire

Let’s talk about your desks.

Tell us how many desks you need and for how many campuses. We’ll send the specification and a quotation.

Restaurant furniture, made at rollout scale.

One design, made identically for every store.

Four product families. Far more capability.

Restaurant and café furniture

Outdoor and terrace furniture

Stainless steel fabrication

SmartStack

Three steps from drawing to dining room.

Send us the specification.

Approve a sample.

We make and deliver.

SmartStack: one desk for the classroom and the exam hall.

We test what we make.

35 years of know-how behind every piece.

Planning a new format or a rollout?

Made to your specification.

Restaurant and café furniture.

Outdoor and terrace furniture.

Stainless steel fabrication.

Made to your drawings, or to ours.

SmartStack: one desk for the classroom and the exam hall.

Send us your specification.

Everything under one roof.

From sheet, tube and board to finished furniture.

Bent plywood

CNC tube bending

Welding

Laser cutting

Stainless steel

Powder coating

Upholstery

CNC machining and joinery

Checked before it leaves.

See it for yourself.

We test what we make.

Tested to recognised methods.

Years of use, compressed into days.

Durability

Impact and drop

Static load and stability

Finishes

Testing as a service.

Our mission is to surpass your expectations, every time.

Three promises, on every order.

On specification.

At scale.

Proven.

To instil trust and confidence in all our clients.

Jacobs Joinery & Shopfitters.

Let's talk about your project.

“A hand up, not a handout.”

Selected, trained, assessed and placed.

Who we take

A hand up

The training

Assessment

Certification

Placement

Sponsor a student.

Let's talk about your project.

One desk for the classroom and the exam hall.

A whole room, lost to desks.

There are 510 exam desksin this room.

Set out the hall. Stack it away. Get the room back.

It stacks

It rolls away

It’s in your colours

Colour in every layer.

Your school, in every desk.

A real-world trial,in a working school.

Made in our own factory.Tested in our own lab.

One desk across every campus.

The essentials.

Let’s talk about your desks.

There are 510 exam desks
in this room.

A real-world trial,
in a working school.

Made in our own factory.
Tested in our own lab.