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Commercial Furniture Statistics 2026: Lead Times, MOQs & Specs

Our product selection is being updated. The figures below describe an archived catalog, not current listings, availability or ordering terms.

Snapshot date: August 18, 2026. Page clarified October 4, 2026. These historical figures were reported from our archived August 2026 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

These figures were calculated from the archived 1,038-record dataset, using its listed MOQs and parsed dimension strings. They are not a representative market survey, physical measurements by CFD, or current supplier terms. Sample sizes describe the records included. Cite the archive as: Commercial Furniture Depot Catalog Analysis, August 2026.

• In this archived dataset, 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.
• In this archived dataset, 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.
• In this archived dataset, 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.
• In this archived dataset, 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).
• In this archived dataset, 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

• In this archived dataset, 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).
• In this archived dataset, the median commercial bar stool stands 41.75 inches tall overall, measured across 72 contract bar stools with fully published dimensions.
• In this archived dataset, 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).
• In this archived dataset, 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.
• In this archived dataset, 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).
• In this archived dataset, 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.
• In this archived dataset, a full commercial catalog spans 59 distinct collections, and 97.1% of contract pieces (1,008 of 1,038) contain dimension strings parsed by the archive analysis script.

Lead times: planning ranges by category

The Commercial Furniture Lead-Time Index preserves fixed scheduling assumptions by category and offers an install-date back-planner. Those bands are not measured supplier lead times and are separate from the archived record calculations on this page.

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 pipeline reached 1,567 projects with 152,044 rooms in Q2 2026, up 15% in projects year over year, according to Lodging Econometrics. Conversions and renovations combined represented 2,097 projects and 255,834 rooms. 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 archived catalog as of August 2026: 1,008 contain parsed dimension strings 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. These are the figures published from the August 2026 catalog snapshot. The original item-level archive is unavailable for this review, so the calculations have not been independently reproduced. Treat them as historical reported figures, not a verified description of current furniture offers.

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. This page was clarified on October 4, 2026; the snapshot figures retain their August date. A future comparison would require a documented item-level dataset and the same measurement rules.