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The specialty restaurant (vegetarian, pizza, soup and salad bars,
etc.): This kind of restaurant offers a limited variety or style of
food. It may specialize in steaks or in a particular kind of national
food or it may
depend on the
atmosphere, decor, or personality of the owner to attract customers.
Both the qualities of the food and the prices are usually between
those of the gourmet and the family type restaurants.
The
convenience restaurant ( fast food): This restaurant serves customers
who want to eat in a hurry or are most interested in fast service,
cleanliness, and low prices. This is a very large group of restaurants
which includes several subcategories. One of these is the lunch counter
which ordinarily serves sandwiches and other simple foods and beverages.
A modern variation on the lunch counter is the fast food operation.
Thousands of these establishments have sprung
up all over the world in recent years. Fast
foods are those which can be prepared, served and eaten quickly, probably
the most typical fast food is the hamburger, a grilled patty of ground
beef served between the slices of a round roll. Street stands are
also convenience foodservices whether they offer a wide variety of
dishes to large numbers of people or only snacks for tourists in cities.
Another way to categorize restaurants is by the kind of service they
offer. There are basically four types: table service, self-service,
counter service, and carryout. In table service restaurants, customers
sit at tables and are served either by a waiter or waitress. A self-service
restaurant is frequently called a buffet or cafeteria; there customers
pass in front of a counter where food is displayed and help themselves
to what they want; then they carry the food to a table themselves.
Usually institutional restaurants are cafeteria, though many cafeteria
are intended
for public business. Carryout restaurants often serve fast foods;
customers place their orders at a counter (or by telephone ahead of
time) then “take out” the food to wherever they wish to eat it-at
their jobs, in a park in a car, or at home. The unprecedented
percentage of working wives and mothers has made an enormous impact
on the entire food service industry, but it is a particularly important
factor in the growth of the carryout or take-out restaurant. |
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