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Commercial Furniture Statistics 2026: Lead Times, MOQs & Specs

Last updated: August 18, 2026. Refreshed annually. Original figures are measured from our own live catalog of 1,038 contract pieces; every borrowed figure names its source on the same line.

Minimum order quantities: what contract MOQs actually look like

Nobody else can publish these numbers. They are measured across the 1,038 pieces we supply, with sample sizes stated so you can judge them. Cite any figure as: Commercial Furniture Depot Catalog Analysis, August 2026.

• The median minimum order quantity for contract furniture is 8 units, across the 717 pieces with published MOQs in the 1,038-product Commercial Furniture Depot catalog.
• The single most common commercial furniture MOQ is 4 units, set on 268 of 717 pieces, and 38.2% of contract pieces can be ordered in quantities of 4 or fewer.
• The median minimum order quantity for commercial dining chairs is 8 units, measured across 290 dining, side, and arm chairs in the 1,038-product Commercial Furniture Depot catalog.
• The median MOQ for commercial bar stools is 6 units (n=75), while lounge chairs and sofas both carry a median MOQ of just 4 units (n=74 and n=24).
• Commercial tables carry the highest minimum order quantities of any furniture type, at a median of 20 units (n=31), versus a median of 8 for the seating that goes around them.

Sizes and specs: seat heights, table heights, and catalog mix

• The median commercial dining chair seat height is 18 inches, and every dining-height seat measured falls between 16 and 20 inches (n=85 chairs with published seat heights).
• The median commercial bar stool stands 41.75 inches tall overall, measured across 72 contract bar stools with fully published dimensions.
• Bar-height tables (40 to 44 inches) are just 4.8% of commercial table SKUs (7 of 146), versus 40 standard dining-height tables (28 to 31 inches) and 8 counter-height (34 to 37 inches).
• Occasional-height tables of 25 inches or under, such as coffee and side tables, make up 56.2% of commercial table SKUs (82 of 146), a footprint of how much lounge and outdoor seating a contract catalog carries.
• Dining chairs are the largest product category in a full-line contract catalog at 296 pieces, ahead of tables (147), lounge and accent chairs (80), bar stools (77), and sofas (67).
• Outdoor and patio pieces make up 41.3% of a full-line commercial furniture catalog (429 of 1,038 pieces), and 81.4% of that contract outdoor furniture is built on aluminum frames.
• A full commercial catalog spans 59 distinct collections, and 97.1% of contract pieces (1,008 of 1,038) publish measured dimensions.

Lead times: planning ranges by category

Lead times get their own reference page: the Commercial Furniture Lead-Time Index publishes typical ranges in weeks for every category, from quick-ship stock (1 to 4 weeks) through domestic made-to-order (commonly 8 to 16 weeks) to imported casegoods programs (up to 18 to 22 weeks), plus an install-date back-planner. Those are planning ranges drawn from our published guides, not measured averages, which is why they live on their own index rather than in the measured figures above.

The 2026 hospitality market, from primary sources

• The U.S. hotel construction pipeline stood at 5,975 projects and 703,001 rooms at the end of Q2 2026, according to Lodging Econometrics. Source
• 661 new U.S. hotels with 74,820 rooms are forecast to open in 2026, a 1.3% supply increase, according to Lodging Econometrics. Source
• The hotel conversion and renovation pipeline hit a record 1,567 projects with 152,044 rooms in Q2 2026, up 15% year over year, according to Lodging Econometrics. Source
• U.S. restaurant and foodservice sales are projected to reach $1.55 trillion in 2026, according to the National Restaurant Association. Source
• Restaurant operators are forecast to add more than 100,000 jobs in 2026, according to the National Restaurant Association. Source

About this data

Original figures are computed from the published specifications of the 1,038 contract-grade pieces in our live catalog as of August 2026: 1,008 carry measured dimensions and 717 carry published minimum order quantities. Product types are classified by product name; sample sizes are stated with every figure. Medians are used instead of averages so a handful of outsized pieces cannot skew the figures. Dining seat heights exclude bar- and counter-height variants, and bar stool heights use only pieces with fully published width-by-depth-by-height dimensions. All computation is scripted against the live catalog data, so each annual refresh re-measures rather than re-estimates.

Journalists, researchers, and bloggers are welcome to reuse any figure on this page with attribution and a link. For related original reference data, see the Lead-Time Index.

History

This is the first edition, published August 2026 from a catalog of 1,038 pieces. When the 2027 figures are published, the 2026 numbers will remain here as history so year-over-year changes in MOQs and catalog mix can be tracked.