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Historically, restaurant referred only to places that provided tables where one ate while seated, typically served by a waiter. Following the rise of fast food and take-out restaurants, a retronym for the older "standard" restaurant was created, sit-down restaurant. Most commonly, "sit-down restaurant" refers to a casual- dining restaurant with ...
Chain store. A chain store or retail chain is a retail outlet in which several locations share a brand, central management and standardized business practices. They have come to dominate many retail markets, dining markets, and service categories in many parts of the world. A franchise retail establishment is one form of a chain store.
Restaurant. The dining room of the Via Sophia in Washington, D.C., United States, which is a high-end luxury restaurant establishment. The dining room of Le Bernardin, which is a restaurant in Midtown, Manhattan, New York City. Restaurants may serve cuisines native to foreign countries.
Waffle House, Inc. Waffle House, Inc. is an American restaurant chain with over 1,900 locations in 25 states in the United States. [4] The bulk of the locations are in the Midwest and the South, where the chain is a regional cultural icon. [5] The menu consists mainly of Southern breakfast food. [6]
Fast casual restaurant. A fast casual restaurant, found primarily in the United States and Canada, is a restaurant that does not offer full table service, but advertises higher quality food than fast-food restaurants, with fewer frozen or processed ingredients. It is an intermediate concept between fast food and casual dining.
Fast-food restaurants are typically part of a restaurant chain or franchise operation that provides standardized ingredients and/or partially prepared foods and supplies to each restaurant through controlled supply channels. The term "fast food" was recognized in a dictionary by Merriam–Webster in 1951.
www.bucadibeppo.com. Buca di Beppo, Livonia, Michigan. Buca di Beppo is an American restaurant chain specializing in Italian-American food. The name roughly translates as "Joe's small place" from Italian. [a] The chain of 81 establishments [2] (76 company-owned, 5 franchises in UK) [3] has been a subsidiary of Planet Hollywood since 2008.
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (/ tʃ ɪ ˈ p oʊ t l eɪ /, chih-POAT-lay), [3] often known simply as Chipotle, is an international chain of fast casual restaurants specializing in Tex-Mex cuisine salads, tacos, and Mission burritos made to order in front of the customer.