Plywood-Top Restaurant Table with Pyramid Plate Base

The top is plywood, and the supplier says so. Most listings in this price band print "solid wood" and leave it there. This one names the build, which is why we can write it down. Plywood is the right choice for a restaurant top: the crossed plies hold their shape across a wide panel, so the top does not cup in a room that runs hot at service and cold at midnight, and it takes a screw at the edge without splitting. The face is a wood-grain laminate and the edge is banded in the same grain, so the plies are not on show. If you want the birch-ply edge left visible as a feature, say so on the drawing — it is a different edge detail, not a different board.

Pyramid plate, and why it costs nothing extra to specify. The pyramid is pressed rather than built up, so it arrives as one piece with the weld tucked up inside the column instead of sitting on the floor line where water gathers. The sloped faces also mean the plate reads smaller than it is: from a chair you see a shade, not a slab, which matters on a light floor in a small room. On the long table the same logic spreads sideways — a rectangular plate under two columns, so the bearing sits along a strip instead of under a single point.