The right choice of pub furniture can play an important part in ensuring all customers can access your premises - from able-bodied pubgoers, to the elderly and infirm, wheelchair users and those on crutches.
Regardless of the age of the individual, the British Beer & Pub Association is encouraging venues to welcome customers with specific accessibility needs, whether they are adults on their own, or young wheelchair users accompanied by their parents.
Choosing the right pub furniture has its own key role to play in this, as lightweight and easily moved chairs and tables can make it easier to clear a path for a wheelchair user, even in pubs where large gaps cannot be left between the tables at all times.
In a guide to accessibility fronted by a message from Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson DBE, the BBPA urges pub owners and managers to think about the ease with which their customers can get in, out and around their facilities.
"How easy is it for them to enter and enjoy your pub? Can they negotiate the furniture easily and find their way around?" the guide asks.
Whether you opt for chairs at the right height for those on crutches to sit down more easily, or add some lightweight seating that can clear a wheelchair route when necessary, the end of the Paralympics makes it an ideal time to improve your accessibility, while tying your efforts into the legacy of the London 2012 Games.