solid wood cabinets are better than laminate

Why do you think that nothing else is used in hard use commercial situations? There is nothing wrong with cabinets that use a good grade of materials, no matter what the wood snobs would try to upcharge you for. It will outlast you, and certainly your current taste in decor. Just look at all of those slab laminate doors with the wood pulls from the 80's that are still wearing like iron that people are still trying to update. Because they aren't to today's taste, not because they are fallng apart. Do you really think that all Europeans live with shoddy cabinets falling of the walls? And particle board and laminate rule that market.