The first week of August is World Breastfeeding Week, and with just a little careful thought you can ensure your bar furniture is catering for new mums - and their babies - and avoid losing valuable daytime trade.
For many bars that open in the daytime, revenues are driven more by coffee than cocktails, with groups of mums meeting for lunch or just for a drink and a chat, before the daytime trade turns into the traditional evening drinkers and socialisers.
But it's important to ensure you make new mums feel welcome, especially if they want to breastfeed their baby in your bar area.
Some people prefer to do this in a secluded area - perhaps in a booth or an enclosed seating area, if you have one - while others may opt to cover up with a blanket or just to feed their baby in the open, and your policy on breastfeeding is an issue for careful consideration in its own right.
Whatever you decide, providing the right bar furniture is not too difficult, and the needs of nursing mums closely reflect the desires of many other customers anyway.
You should make sure the chair is comfortable, as mum may not be able to move much for some time until her baby is finished feeding - so a padded upholstered seat is ideal, although ergonomic chairs without padded cushions can work equally well.
For extra protection, she may prefer a chair with arms, and this makes a good-sized leather tub chair and excellent option, as it will provide a protective barrier against any passers-by, while also looking great in amongst your other bar furniture.
It's probably reasonable to say that tall bar stools are less preferable for this, while a sofa or bench with other people sitting on it might not be ideal either - but again, those can form part of your overall bar furniture mix anyway.
Once you are sure you have the right furniture in place to allow mums to breastfeed in comfort, and with whatever degree of privacy they prefer, be sure to use the hashtag #WorldBreastfeedingWeek on your social media accounts to make certain your daytime customers know they are welcome.