Seating chart guides
Practical guides to planning: dimensions, established conventions and the decisions worth making before the first name. Every guide also shows what the result looks like on a plan.
How to make a classroom seating chart that works
When rows and when group tables, who decides the seats, how often they change — and two common solutions that turn against themselves.
Read the guide → Guide · SchoolsClassroom layout: eight desk arrangements and the space they need
Rows, pairs, U-shape, double U, group tables, V-shape, circle and exam layout: what each is for, what it costs and how many desks fit in a classroom.
Read the guide → Guide · WeddingsWedding seating: from the head table to the place cards
The traditional head table order, how many guests fit around a table without the conversation breaking up, when to lock the chart down and which printouts you need.
Read the guide → Guide · WeddingsHead table seating: who sits where
The traditional order seat by seat, who belongs at the table, divorced parents and step-families, the couple on their own, and the table measurements.
Read the guide → Guide · SizingHow many people fit at a round table?
A chart from diameter to seat count in inches and centimeters, where the numbers come from, what the place setting and the service take, and how many tables a room needs.
Read the guide → Guide · RestaurantsRestaurant table plans: sizing, table mix and the flow of the evening
How many seats a room really holds, how wide a walkway has to be, what table mix works and where a party is best seated.
Read the guide → Guide · EventsEvent seating: layout style, capacity and table assignment
Banquet, cabaret or theater — which style holds the most people, how much space an attendee needs, how the tables are divided up and how last-minute changes are handled.
Read the guide → Guide · LayoutCabaret style seating: the layout where nobody has their back to the stage
What cabaret style seating is, how many seats are left at the table, how much more space it takes than banquet, how the rows are staggered and how the room comes together on a plan with one setting.
Read the guide → Guide · Trade shows and festivalsTrade show floor plans: booth placement, aisles and numbering
How wide the aisles should be, how to draw visitors all the way to the back, what numbering survives changes and where the services and fire exits go.
Read the guide → ComparisonSeating charts in Excel: where a spreadsheet runs out
What moving one person in a spreadsheet really takes, why capacity and rules do not fit into cells, and how to move a name list across in seconds.
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