form restaurant style booths an individual bench incorporates a mechanism for shifting the weight of the bench between a mobile base which may be supported by swivel casters and a stationary base which may be supported by non slip feet actuated by pivoting a bench seat down from a folded storage position to an unfolded seating position the weight shifting mechanism may include an engagement member which is initially spaced apart from an actuator at a folded angle of the seat and which contacts and begins transmitting force and movement to the actuator at a partially unfolded angle of the seat preferably the bench further includes a biasing component that biases the stationary base upward relative to the mobile base a locking mechanism that resists a force provided by the biasing component to retain the bench seat in the unfolded seating position contoured shells or other covers for the seat and a seat back and a back panel extending vertically above the seat back application_number US 201615048596 A description with reference to the accompanying drawing figures a mobile folding restaurant booth style bench according to the invention will now be described in detail a mobile folding bench 10 according to the invention includes a mobile base embodied as a pair of caster frames 12 a 12 b that engage a supporting floor surface fs when bench 10 is in a mobile folded storage position depicted in fig1 to facilitate easy movement of bench 10 between a storage location and a use.