[SML] Folding chair rental questions--

[Stephen Litterst]

We have a stock of nice folding chairs for campus events, but we have to 
rent for commencement.  In addition to the large ceremony in the 
stadium, we have secondary ceremonies for colleges and departments in 
large tents on our campus green.

We do use the regular plastic chair in the stadium and under the tents. 
While I'm only involved in the tent ceremonies, I haven't heard of any 
issues with collapses.

Steve L.

On 2/16/17 10:52 AM, Ben Hain via Stagecraft wrote:
> Hi—
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> On my campus, we’re in planning meetings for spring commencement and one
> of the issues is finding good quality folding chairs in volumes of about
> 1200 chairs.
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> The local rental place has the regular, cheap, metal tubing, plastic
> seat folding chair. And last year one collapsed under a guest. So we’re
> trying to be extra cautious this year.
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> Anything nicer than the cheap folding chair becomes expensive when
> looking at 1200 of them.
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> I’m curious what other venues do in this situation?
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> Do you own your own chairs?
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> Where do you rent from?
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> Do you budget for the cost of the nicer chairs or go with the cheap ones?
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> Being in Rochester MN, we don’t have many local options; shipping may be
> involved as well.
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> Thanks for offering opinions—
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> Benjamin Hain
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Stephen Litterst            Technical Operations Supervisor
litterst at udel.edu           Mitchell Hall
302/831-0601                University of Delaware