Restaurant

A restaurant is an establishment that serves prepared food and beverages to be consumed on the premises. The term covers a multiplicity of venues and a diversity of styles of cuisine.

Specific types of restaurant

Brasserie, bistro

In France, a brasserie is a café doubling as a restaurant and serving single dishes and other meals in a relaxed setting. A bistro is a familiar name for a café serving moderately priced simple meals in an unpretentious setting, especially in Paris; bistros have become increasingly popular with tourists.

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France - Brasserie - Café - Bistro - Paris

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Dining car

A dining car (British English: restaurant car) is a passenger car serving as a restaurant in long-distance trains. To passengers travelling long distances it offers greater luxury than eating brought-along food in the train, while it saves time compared with eating in towns along the way. Also, compared with other restaurants, the ever-changing views of the countryside may enhance the pleasure of the meal. Dining cars have, however, become increasingly rare, often being replaced by bar cars selling snacks and pre-packaged meals.

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Passenger car - Train

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The car's interior is split with a portion of the interior partitioned off for a galley, which is off-limits to passengers. A narrow hallway is left between the galley and one side wall of the car for passengers to use. The remainder of the interior is laid out with tables and chairs to look like a long, narrow restaurant dining room.

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Fast food restaurants

See also: fast-food restaurant, McDonald's

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Fast-food restaurant - McDonald's

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In the US, fast-food restaurants and take-outs have become so widespread that the traditional standard type is now sometimes referred to as a sit-down restaurant (a retronym).

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Fast-food restaurant - Take-out - Sit-down restaurant - Retronym

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There are various types of fast-food restaurant:

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• one collects food from a counter and pays, then sits down and starts eating (self-service restaurant); sub-varieties:
• one collects ready portions
• one serves oneself from containers
• one is served at the counter
• a special procedure is that one first pays at the cash desk, collects a ticket and then goes to the food counter, where one gets the food in exchange for the ticket
• one orders at the counter; after preparation the food is brought to one's table; paying may be on ordering or after eating.