Tables like Chipotle Restaurants?

[kruegdr]

I was eating at Chipotle the other night and took a good look at their tabletops.

They're about an 0.030"-ish stainless top laminated with very thick plywood. (Maybe even two layers of plywood?). The edges are pretty much perfectly beveled and rounded over. I wish I took a pic, but next time I'm over there I'll snap one. I'm looking for a kitchen table like this that won't break the bank, but now that I think about it, what would it take to build one?


Have any of you all made your own stainless/plywood tops?

Where could you pick one of these up?

I did some Googletating and didn't come up with much on the meat-n-potatoes of their interior design.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Something like this ?

http://www.kpetersen.com/stainlesssteeltabletops.htm

 

[Red Leader]

I know what you are talking about, it is a cool, minimalist design that still looks great - very clean.

The coolest ideas I saw recently was at the local Illegal Petes - they sandwiched about 8x 3/4" OSB (my best guess anyway) together and sanded it completely smooth, then finished in a hard clear poly. It was one of the coolest things I've seen and looked really great. When I first saw it I totally thought it was a really fabulous piece of spalted maple.

If I ever need to do some handrails or anything else involving wood trim in the shop, I'm totally doing it.

 

[kruegdr]

Yeah, almost just like that!

Thanks for the link, too bad you have to buy a minimum of 3.

 

[Vvmvbb]

Ikea maybe?

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20115533/

 

[csp]

Every Chipotle I've been in has had tables made with LVL beams cut to size and had a stainless sheet laminated to the top. Pictures found via Google images.

 

[JWStout]

csp could definitely be right about the LVL beams.

I always thought it was baltic birch of finnish birch. I figured they laminated two sheets of 3/4" baltic birch and a stainless steel top. Then used a router with their table edge profile and ran the guide bushing along the stainless steel top. Finish with a coat of poly or lacquer.

 

[RivennHewn]

Another option may be using Plastic laminate in stainless finish.

http://samples.wilsonartcontract.com/p-308-satin-stainless-4830-18.aspx

 

[Jack Olsen]

This?

 

[quika]

Is their a manufacturer sticker on the bottom?

 

[willymakeit]

I used to build fixtures. Stainless laminate. The sanded(ground) finish maybe special order. Check at a laminate supplier not one of the box stores.

 

[Voi]

I always thought it was baltic birch of finnish birch.

I'm fairly certain Chipotle uses one of the Baltic Birch Plywoods for all of their woodwork and even their chairs. Baltic Birch comes in 5' x 5' sheets. The real stuff has a green stamp in one of the corners. My local cabinet lumber supplier sells it as Russian Birch. I've also seen it sold as Finnish Birch.

I think there are slight differences amongst the three types. Like maybe one uses waterproof glue and one will allow patches in the face veneer.

Menard's used to stock a 4x8 baltic birch but it's not the real stuff although it's not bad to work with. I think at my store it's special order only now with a steep shipping penalty.

There are two US manufacturers of similar products. Columbia Forest Products makes a product called Europly and someplace in the southeast makes a product called Appleply. Both have rotary sawn Maple face veneers unlike the rotary sawn Birch face veneers of the Baltic products.

 

[lowbucktruck]

I've always thought that those Chipotle tables would be great for garage use. With a stainless steel top, you could spill just about anything (but not beer, that would be alcohol abuse) on them and the SS top would make for easy clean-up.

Think that Voi is on track, that plywood used to make those tops does look like Birch.

 

[kruegdr]

Is their a manufacturer sticker on the bottom?

Nah, I looked under some and didn't see them.

RivenHewn, Voi, and others thanks for the info. I'm not familiar with the different flavors of ply.

Ya learn something new everyeday

 

[B8mn1]

Okay, I see this is a very old thread, but a few posts back showed the "Chipotle" item I'm searching for.... the corrugated metal they use on the walls,,,

I want to source a couple pieces of the corrugated metal to make my sliding "barn door" for the garage bathroom.... I was even thinking to maybe use it just like in the restaurant on the walls in the bathroom...

Ideas or source would be appreciated!!

 

[Iron-Iceberg]

Okay, I see this is a very old thread, but a few posts back showed the "Chipotle" item I'm searching for.... the corrugated metal they use on the walls,,,

I want to source a couple pieces of the corrugated metal to make my sliding "barn door" for the garage bathroom.... I was even thinking to maybe use it just like in the restaurant on the walls in the bathroom...

Ideas or source would be appreciated!!

If you are in LA try King metals they have about everything.
https://www.kingmetals.com

 

[Voi]

Okay, I see this is a very old thread, but a few posts back showed the "Chipotle" item I'm searching for.... the corrugated metal they use on the walls.

In my area a steel roofing company sells corrugated steel panels just for this. Friend of mine just did a wainscot with it on the outside front of his shop. I think the wainscot is about 30" tall and he has maybe 80 running feet of it and I recall a price tag of 4k. So about $20 a square foot if I'm remembering/guessing the numbers correctly.

He treated it with an acid to give it a rusted look. Expensive but it looked great.

 

[Lassen Forge]

No harm no foul... go to one of the local sheet metal roofing places, buy a couple flats of corrugated, probably heavy galvanized, but they're not terribly expensive... Pacific Metal should be able to get you what you need. If not, Kelly - they do all kinds of one-off stuff, if you wanted to go with copper or etc. (copper gutters etc.).. Both in the Metro LA Area...

 

[hippie2cams]

the big box stores carry the corrugated tin which is what you are looking at in the picture above

 

[Firebird 1]

I fabbed up a bunch of counter tops and tables for a coffee house. I made the base out of tube steel welded, the top was plywood and I had a local metal fab shop make up flat galvanized with brake bent edges. Very simple. You can buy table bases from a rest supply co. and they usually have used stuff cheap. I do a lot of work for arbys and I thru about 20+ tables and 40 or 50 metal chairs to the scrap yard a few months ago. I recycled one set for my kitchen though.