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This is a list of restaurant terminology. A restaurant is a business that prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money, either paid before the meal, after the meal, or with a running tab. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services .
Boston Pizza (branded as simply Boston's Restaurant & Sports Bar outside of Canada) has franchised 396 restaurants in North America. Boston Pizza International Inc. was Canada's number one casual dining brand with more than 340 restaurants in Canada and system-wide sales of $831 million in 2008. [5]
Menu showing a list of desserts in a pizzeria. In a restaurant, the menu is a list of food and beverages offered to the customer. A menu may be à la carte – which presents a list of options from which customers choose, often with prices shown – or table d'hôte, in which case a pre-established sequence of courses is offered.
The terms entree de table and issue de table are organizing words, "describing the structure of a meal rather than the food itself". [4] The terms potaiges and rost indicate cooking methods but not ingredients. The menus, though, give some idea of both the ingredients and the cooking methods that were characteristic of each stage of the meal.
The word is derived from the French word cours (run), and came into English in the 14th century. [2] It came to be used perhaps because the food in a banquet serving had to be brought at speed from a remote kitchen – in the 1420 cookbook Du fait de cuisine the word "course" is used interchangeably with the word for serving.
^ Jean-Marie Francœur, Genèse de la cuisine québécoise. À travers ses grandes et ses petites histoires, Anjou, Québec, Fides, 2011 (ISBN 978-2-7621-3029-4). ^ Jean-Paul Grappe, La Cuisine traditionnelle du Québec. Découvrez la cuisine de nos régions, Montréal, ITHQ-Éditions de l'Homme, 2006
Montreal has hosted La Poutine Week, an annual festival, food tour, and competition held 1–7 February, since 2013. [80] [81] [34] It spread across Canada and internationally, and by 2021 had become the largest poutine festival in the world, with over 700 restaurants serving more than 350,000 poutines.
Fast food A&W restaurant in Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot, Quebec. "A&W Food Services of Canada", now headquartered in North Vancouver, was once part of the U.S.-owned A&W Restaurants, but has been Canadian-owned since a management buyout in 1995. [139] Employee at a Harvey's restaurant franchise garnishing a hamburger by instruction of the customer