A restaurant is an establishment that offers drinks and food.
The French term restaurant came to our language as restauran or restaurant . This is a business that offers various foods and drinks for consumption in the establishment. Said consumption must be paid for by the client, who is usually known as a diner .
For example: “My uncle has a restaurant in the northern part of the city,” “Last night Lisandro took me to dinner at a Japanese restaurant,” “My favorite dish at this restaurant is garlic chicken with Spanish potatoes.”
Historical origins of restaurants
The concept of a restaurant began to become popular in the second half of the 18th century , although establishments of this type already existed before. It is believed that the word is linked to the fact that these establishments allow the stomach of those who attend to be “restored” .
Currently there are a large number of different restaurants, offering different services and specialties. Depending on the type of cuisine they serve, we can talk about Chinese restaurants , Italian restaurants , Mexican restaurants , etc.
There are restaurants of different categories and prices.
Classification according to type
The list of types of restaurants is very extensive, especially highlighting the following classifications:
-Depending on the type of food served, there are vegetarian and macrobiotic, meat, poultry or fish and seafood.
-Depending on the services, we find a la carte restaurants, menu restaurants, self-service restaurants...
An establishment that makes already prepared dishes available to people so they can serve themselves is known as a buffet restaurant , self-service restaurant or free-fork restaurant . In traditional restaurants, on the other hand, the customer asks a waiter or waiter for the dish they want to consume and then waits at the table for it to be served.
It should be noted that there are also takeaway restaurants or those that deliver . In this case, the person buys the food and/or drink at the premises but then consumes it at home.
The category of restaurants
In the same way, as with hotels and their “stars”, forks are the symbols used to classify restaurants based on their category and price:
-Of 5 forks. These are luxury restaurants, which usually have personalized and attentive service, a dining room with exquisite decoration and atmosphere, an extensive menu with top quality products, professionals properly uniformed in an impeccable manner...
-Of 4 forks, which are first class. It differs from the previous ones both for its more limited menu and for the varieties of service times they include.
-Three-star restaurants, which are second-class restaurants, are usually tourist-type and will have a more restricted capacity in terms of space. They do not have more than six courses (horses, soups and creams , vegetables-eggs-pasta, fish, meats and desserts).
-Of 2 forks, also called third class. They have simple furniture and decoration, as will the workers' clothing.
-From 1 fork. The restaurants in this category have a simple menu and are identified by having what are three-course dishes: soups , stews or specialties and house desserts or fruit.