Gary Platt

The company carries the name of a salesman rather than a founder. In 1959 Gary Platt, who sold restaurant furniture for L&B West of Santa Monica, sat on a wobbly blackjack stool during a Las Vegas trip and set out to make better casino seats. He's also credited with persuading casinos to put stools at slot machines, which players had until then worked standing up. In 1996 Leonard Einhorn and Bob Yabroff took over a spinoff seating business and called it Gary Platt Manufacturing; Platt lent his name but didn't own the company.

It started in Southern California and moved to Reno, Nevada, in 1999, according to the company's own history (a 2022 trade report gives 1997). It makes chairs for slot machines, table games, poker, bars and sportsbooks, and slot makers including IGT, Aristocrat and Konami have used its chairs alongside their games. A hospitality division for banquet, restaurant and hotel seating followed in 2021. In June 2022 the company marked its millionth casino chair; it had more than 120 employees at the time.

CVF Capital Partners, a private-equity firm in Davis, California, bought Gary Platt together with its management team in December 2019 and still lists it as a holding; CVF puts the company's share of the U.S. casino seating market at about half. In October 2025 the company said it had raised fresh growth capital under new owners and named Gary Toms chief executive. In April 2026 it took the name Gary Platt Seating and a new logo.