We bought a new 2011 Jayco 184BH and owned it for two years. We used the table and made it into a bed with the cushions as designed and then bought a 3 inch memory foam topper from Walmart and left the bed made up most of the time. On the rare occasions that we ate inside, we sat at the couch with folding TV tables. I did cut a plywood piece to put in place of the table, and that worked ok, but, we found that occasionally we wanted to set up the table and make the dinette again. By using the table and the memory foam topper, we could roll that up and place it in the top bunk and still have a dinette table to use. We never put the plywood back in.