How To Choose Play Cafe Equipment?
Nov 19, 2025
I. Safety First, Standards Foremost
1. Seek suppliers with international standard certifications. This is the baseline requirement and the most crucial guarantee.
2. Design out hazards. Choose experienced suppliers to ensure no sharp edges, protruding parts, or pinching risks.
3. Ground protection. Plan a matching safety mat, such as durable and eco-friendly EVA mats.
II. Aligned with brand positioning and target customers
● High-end and boutique coffee shops: Opt for facilities with strong design appeal. Use colors like natural wood tones and low-saturation hues to create an elegant and warm atmosphere.
● Fashionable and internet-famous cafes: Introduce a visual focal point or interactive technology play cafe equipment, such as customized rotating slides, interactive projection sandboxes, and LED swings, to create social media dissemination points.
1. Space utilization and themes
● Customized Design: Consider incorporating your coffee shop logo, brand color, or theme elements (e.g., forest, ocean, space) into the play cafe equipment for a unique experience.
● Inclusivity: Add features like wheelchair-accessible ramps and sensory-friendly elements (suitable for children with autism).
2. Age Zoning & Facility Matching:
Toddler Area (1-3 years): Soft play crawling area, low slides, sensory walls, ball pits.
Older children's area (6+ years): more challenging climbing walls, mazes, and obstacle courses
III. How to find Play Cafe suppliers
1. Supplier Evaluation Checklist:
● Qualification and Certification: The supplier must have business credentials and international product certification certificates.
● Case and Experience: Check if they have similar projects for other clients. Review their official website and see their project case part(e.g., Cowboy Project) or request case study photos/videos.
● Customization Ability: Ask if they support customization of colors, sizes, and themes.
2. After-sales Service & Installation:
Installation guidance: Do they provide detailed installation drawings or videos? Can they send engineers for on-site guidance and installation?
Warranty: How long is the warranty period? What does it cover?
3. Recommended Procurement Process:
Initial Inquiry: Provide your cafe floor plan, budget, theme concept, and target client.
Proposal & Quotation: Request to provide preliminary design proposals and detailed quotations from suppliers.
Sample Inspection: For large orders, consider requesting samples to personally check the material quality, craftsmanship, and safety of the play cafe equipment.
Factory Audit: If possible, arrange a third-party or personal factory audit to inspect the production process for the play cafe equipment and quality control systems.
Clear Contract Terms: Specify technical parameters, delivery timeline, payment terms, and trade terms in detail within the contract.
Recommend a Trusted Supplier:
● Cowboy Group holds international safety and quality certification certificates such as CE, ISO9001, ISO14001, TUV, BV, ASTM, ensuring quality assurance.
● As a 22-year indoor playground equipment supplier, we provide play cafe one-stop solutions services, handling design, customization, sales, production, shipping, installation, and after-sales.
● We offer free 3D design based on client requirements and have delivered numerous projects domestically and internationally, with extensive and relevant cafe case studies.
● Support overseas installation (technical personnel can be dispatched for installation) or detailed installation guidance (videos+pictures)
● The quotation can include sea freight and insurance. Factory price, FOB, and CIF prices are available.
