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restaurant (French: [ʁɛstoʁɑ̃]),
or
an eatery,
is
a business which
prepares
and
serves
food
and
drinks
to
customers
in
exchange
for
money.
Meals
are
generally
served
and
eaten
on
the
premises,
but
many
restaurants
also
offer take-out and food
delivery
services,
and
some
offer
only
take-out
and
delivery.
Restaurants
vary
greatly
in
appearance
and
offerings,
including
a
wide
variety
of cuisinesand service models
ranging
from
inexpensive fast
food
restaurants and cafeterias to
mid-priced family
restaurants,
to
high-priced
luxury
establishments.
In
Western
countries,
most
mid-
to
high-range
restaurants
serve alcoholic
beverages such
as beer and wine.
Some
restaurants
serve
all
the
major
meals,
such
as breakfast, lunch,
and dinner (e.g.,
major
fast
food
chains,
diners,
hotel
restaurants,
and
airport
restaurants).
Other
restaurants
may
only
serve
a
single
meal
(for
example,
a pancake
house may
only
serve
breakfast)
or
they
may
serve
two
meals
(e.g.,
lunch
and
dinner).
Types
Restaurants
are
classified
or
distinguished
in
many
different
ways.
The
primary
factors
are
usually
the
food
itself
(e.g. vegetarian, seafood, steak);
the cuisine (e.g.
Italian,
Chinese,
Japanese,
Indian,
French,
Mexican,
Thai)
or
the
style
of
offering
(e.g. tapas bar,
a sushi train,
a tastet restaurant,
a buffetrestaurant
or
a yum
cha restaurant).
Beyond
this,
restaurants
may
differentiate
themselves
on
factors
including
speed
(see fast
food),
formality,
location,
cost,
service,
or novelty
themes (such
as automated
restaurants).
Restaurants
range
from
inexpensive
and
informal lunching or dining places
catering
to
people
working
nearby,
with
modest
food
served
in
simple
settings
at
low
prices,
to
expensive
establishments
serving
refined
food
and fine
wines in
a
formal
setting.
In
the
former
case,
customers
usually
wear
casual
clothing.
In
the
latter
case,
depending
on
culture
and
local
traditions,
customers
might
wear semi-casual, semi-formal or formal
wear.
Typically,
at
mid-
to
high-priced
restaurants,
customers
sit
at
tables,
their
orders
are
taken
by
a waiter,
who
brings
the
food
when
it
is
ready.
After
eating,
the
customers
then
pay
the
bill.
In
some
restaurants,
such
as
workplace cafeterias,
there
are
no
waiters;
the
customers
use
trays,
on
which
they
place
cold
items
that
they
select
from
a
refrigerated
container
and
hot
items
which
they
request
from
cooks,
and
then
they
pay
a
cashier
before
they
sit
down.
Another
restaurant
approach
which
uses
few
waiters
is
the
buffet
restaurant.
Customers
serve
food
onto
their
own
plates
and
then
pay
at
the
end
of
the
meal.
Buffet
restaurants
typically
still
have
waiters
to
serve
drinks
and
alcoholic
beverages.
Fast
food
restaurants
are
also
considered
a
restaurant.
