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Meals. In restaurants, à la carte (/ ɑːləˈkɑːrt /; French: [a la kaʁt]; lit. 'at the card') [1] is the practice of ordering individual dishes from a menu in a restaurant, as opposed to table d'hôte, where a set menu is offered. [2] It is an early 19th century loan from French meaning "according to the menu". [3][4]
A La Carte was a disco girl group formed in 1978, and based in Germany. [1] Producers Tony Hendrik and Karin Hartmann helped with the start up of the group. The trio originally included Scottish girls: Patsy Fuller , Julia and Elaine.
A la carte pay television. A la carte pay television (from the French à la carte, "from the menu"), also referred to as pick-and-pay, [1] is a pricing model for pay television services in which customers subscribe to individual television channels. For subscription distribution services, a la carte pricing contrasts with the prevailing model ...
Pay television, also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, [1][2][3][4] refers to subscription -based television services, usually provided by multichannel television providers, but also increasingly via digital terrestrial and streaming television.
Cafeteria Catholic, also called à la carte, is an informal term used to describe a follower of Catholicism who dissents from certain official doctrinal or moral teachings of the Catholic Church. [1][2] Polling indicates that many Catholics dissent from the institutional hierarchy on at least one issue. [3]
A la Carte (Kenny Burrell album) À la carte (EP), a 2002 EP by Fujifabric. Alacarte, a GNOME menu editor. "A La Cart", an episode of the American crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. A-la-carte, a music service selling individual songs. A la carte pay television, a pricing model where cable and satellite television customers subscribe ...
Etymology. Table d'hôte is a French loan phrase that literally means "the host's table". The term is used to denote a table set aside for residents of a guesthouse [fr], who presumably sit at the same table as their host. The meaning shifted to include any meal featuring a set menu at a fixed price. The use in English is documented as early as ...
A la Carte is the fourth album to be released by Austrian band Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung (EAV) in 1984. A la Carte is quite a well known French expression (meaning "according to the card") which is used worldwide. The album cover is a satirical take on this, as it shows a green pig's head, wearing headphones and eating a vinyl disc.