If I am working the booth alone, the workstation is placed directly behind the product tables. If, as is most often the case, I am working with my husband and business partner, I set up kitty-corner in the back of the booth. From here I have a clear view of our full run of tables, keeping an eye out for theft, or for customers requiring extra help, and I can easily step up when it gets busy enough that both of us need to be working sales.
Until then, I remain visible demonstrating and acting as a theft deterrent. This set-up also affords us the most open space within the booth. Everything in our booth can be made on my portable workbench, (we specialize in stamping, chasing and repousse, and chain maille.)
Our home studio houses our finishing tools: tumbler, flex shaft, torches, etc. But my workbench travels back and forth from our brick-and-mortar store to shows, exhibitions, home, and on vacation. The view from my portable workbench is refreshingly ever-changing.
I can and have taken this portable workbench everywhere: to a cliff overlooking the ocean, the backwoods of my 24-acre homestead in Massachusetts, to the Tucson Gem and Jewelry Show, the largest jewelry show in the world. I even modified it further and worked at my trade in a sleeper car on an Amtrak Train!
Designing, manufacturing, and selling our wares to retail and wholesale customers full-time means we have to constantly be creating new lines. I find with a portable workbench I can work wherever I happen to be.