RESTAURANT TYPES Bistro A small informal restaurant serving

RESTAURANT TYPES

Bistro A small informal restaurant serving light meals and refreshments.

Bodega Spanish term for a wine shop, wine bar or cellar

Drive-in restaurant Restaurant which serves its customers in their cars

Fast food outlet A limited menu retail outlet offering quick, often counter service and take-away service. Usually based on systems with standard recipes and products. Many fast food outlets are chain-operated with brand names.

Fast food Outlet

Bring Your Own (BYO) Term used for restaurants and other food outlets in Australia which allow customers to bring and consume their own beverages on the premises for a small charge (corkage). They are particularly common in Australia’s second largest city, Melbourne.

Cafeteria Self-service restaurant often located in a factory, office block or another place of employment for the use of staff or in an educational establishment for the use of students and staff.

Cafeteria

Snack bar Establishment providing simple food and non-alcoholic refreshments to the general public for consumption on the premises where customers commonly sit or stand at a counter.

Carvery A restaurant where hot roast meals are offered at the buffet table for the customer to carve his/her own portion or to be served by a chef and then to help himself/herself to vegetables and other food.

Carvery

Speciality restaurant Restaurant which specializes in particular food, e.g., pasta, seafood or steaks, or in national foods, such as Chinese, Indian or Mexican.

Café Establishment providing food and refreshments for consumption on the premises to the general public. Commonly a small unit with a limited menu and no alcoholic liquor available, sometimes open only during the day but not in the evening.

Trattoria An Italian restaurant

Coffee shop An informal food and beverage outlet found in hotels, serving meals, snacks and refreshments through the day and into the night. The term differentiates a less formal outlet with more limited menu and long opening hours from a more formal hotel restaurant.

Coffee shop

In Asia the term coffee shop can also refer to a collection of private food sellers selling cheap meals in one establishment.

Truckshop American term for transport café Diner Small restaurant.