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The Extraordinarily Wide Variety of Restaurants
There are several various different varieties of restaurants. It is of interest to note that, in the past, and in countries outside of the United States and Canada, fast food establishments do not fit the conventional definition of “restaurant” that well. The term sit-down restaurant, which began as a way of differentiating fast-food restaurants from the normal variety, is non-existent as well.
The term restaurant, within these regions outside of the US, refers exclusively to the variety of eatery where you sit down at a table to dine, and are waited on by a waiter or waitress. Family-styled dining, and casual-dining as well are almost non-existent terms.
What are the separate types of restaurant dining? There’s 4 basic categories recognized officially (mostly in the US). These may include: fast-food, family style, casual dining, and fine dining. Fast-food dining entails rapid turn-around of orders. The type of restaurant known as fast casual dining falls into this category as well, but, with fast casual dining non-disposable cutlery is used. Fast-food includes street vending hot dog carts, Burger King, and more.
Family style restaurants often hold true to their name, in that they may be run by a single family. Often they’ll have a lower price on most of their menu items, and bench seats, but may offer non-disposable cutlery as well. Think small-town diner when you think of a family style restaurant.
The third category of dining known as casual dining is a type of restaurant roughly somewhere in between fast food like McDonald’s and fine dining, and probably also a step ahead of family style eating establishments. They most often are part of a popular chain, but not always. Most often they have a full bar with staff, a medium-priced menu, and serving staff to serve you. Often the bar will boast a moderate selection of beers, and a modest selection of wine.
Fine dining often has a fancier interior, more highly trained staff with an obvious and apparent dress code, and highly specific dedicated meal courses. Fine dining establishments frequently have more of “atmosphere,” and often have a required standard of dressand conduct code for their guests. Usually fine dining is restricted to just a few locations instead of being a part of a large chain, which is more commonly associated with “casual dining” establishments.
All other permutations of restaurants generally are re-formulations of fast-casual dining, and casual dining. Cafes or coffee shops are a good example of this. In most cafes, you do not have a waiter, however, your food will be brought to you. The availability of food can often be restricted to only sweets and breakfast, accompanied with idiosyncratic outdoor patio.
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