Comprehension questions:
1．Why do some people consider the certain food tasty, while others don’t?
2．What has promoted the restaurant and catering business to develop quickly?
3．Why do we name one kind of restaurants the gourmet one?
4．For what reasons does the family-type restaurant attract
a lot of family groups?
5．What makes the various categories of restaurants spring up like mushrooms?

Answers:
1. Most of us have been brought up to eat certain foods and we stick to them all our lives.
2. There are millions of people away from their homes every day either by necessity or by choice. The restaurant and catering business has met this growing demand by feeding this huge number of highly mobile persons, office and factory workers, schoolchildren, military personnel. travelers and people out to have a good time.
3. A gourmet is a person who appreciates the best in food and in drink
4. The family-type restaurant: Many eating places serve simple food at moderate prices that appeal to family groups. Perhaps their principal feature is the reliability they offer their customers through standardized food and service. When a family stops on a highway to eat at a franchise restaurant, they know what kind of food they will get and what the price will be.
5. The millions of people who “eat out ” every day have a wide variety of needs and tastes from a quick lunch to a luxurious meal with elaborate service. Because of these differences there are many kinds of restaurants varying from sidewalk cafes for a hot dog or bowl of noodles to elaborate restaurants with the best cooking.