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Kitchen table

Modern day kitchens are typically provided with various different cooking appliances that can be used individually or in combination to perform a wide range of cooking operations. Kitchen islands are common and popular, and often include a gas or electric stove top for cooking. Countertop assemblies often found in modern day kitchen rooms provide various vertically offset planar work surfaces, the surfaces are almost fixed at respective, predetermined heights. Specifically, a typical kitchen will include a main countertop work surface and an upper tabletop which is spaced above the main work surface. In the case of a kitchen island, only the main countertop surface is provided. In many kitchen arrangements, the kitchen island serves as a secondary dining surface depending upon particular requirements and/or design constraints. Typical dining room tables seat eight to twelve persons and perhaps more, but on occasion the diners outnumber the seating capacity.

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