Remodeling: Remodeling kitchen-adding eating bar, but will lose kitchen dinning if I do..will that hurt resale value?/ Darby C on Apr 02, 2011 It seems that these days, the eating bar has replaced the kitchen table in a lot of new ...» construction. If you have a small defined space, you should be O.K. Consider putting in a bench seat so that it does not take up too much room.