This document describes and categorizes various types of food and beverage outlets. It outlines general restaurants, specialty restaurants, coffee shops, grill rooms, bars, nightclubs, lounge bars, pubs, quick service restaurants, cafeterias, poolside barbecues, banquets, room service, internet cafes, coffee/espresso bars, food courts, and vending machines. For each type, it provides a brief description of their defining characteristics such as cuisine, atmosphere, pricing, hours of operation, and location.

1. Food & Beverage Outlets

2. General restaurant
• Single or multi-cuisine
• All day dining or meal
specific
• Meals offered depend
on theme or operating
hours
• Usually modestly
furnished and mid-priced

3. Speciality restaurant
• Follow a specific
cuisine/ theme for
décor, ambience, food
and beverages,
uniforms, style of
service
• E.g. Chinese, Japanese,
Thai, Italian, Middle
Eastern, seafood,
vegetarian
• Meal specific, expensive

4. Coffee shop
• Attached to hotels,
airports
• Operate for 24 hrs
• All day dining menu for
snacks and beverages,
meal specific menus or
buffets
• Informal, pre-plated
service, brisk seat
turnover, mid-priced

5. Grill room
• Independent or
attached to star hotels
• May have open kitchens
• Specialise in grilled
meats, wine service
• Busy during dinner or
weekends and holidays
• Table reservations
needed

6. Bar
• Alcoholic beverages-cocktails
and snacks
• Independent or in a
hotel
• Operating hours,
inventory, location,
choice of clients
governed by law
• Themes like sports bar

7. Dicotheque/Nightclub
• Members or couples
• Entry fee, dress code
• Bar attached, snacks
only
• Dance floor, DJ console,
strobe lights, lasers
• Open at night
• Promotions like happy
hours, theme nights,
ladies specials

8. Lounge bar
• May be attached to a
hotel/ restaurant
• Alcoholic beverages and
snacks
• Plush low seating
• Popular meeting place
for groups
• Informal, relaxed
atmosphere

9. Pub
• Made popular by UK/
Ireland
• Informal meeting place
• Variety of both bottled
and draught beer like
ale, bitter, stout
• Pub food and games

10. Quick service(fast food restaurants)
• Easy vending foods and
beverages, minimal
table service
• Bulk cooking, takeaway,
value meal concept
• Franchised chains like
McDonalds, Burger
King, KFC, Wendy’s,
Domino’s Pizza, Subway

11. Cafeteria
• Popular in institutions
• Self service
• Display counters for
F&B selection, trays for
cng food
• Coupons, or payment at
check-out
• Snacks and beverages
or cyclic meal plans

12. Poolside barbeque
• Lunch or dinner, in fair
weather
• Meats, seafood and
vegetables like corn on
the cob, potatoes along
with selection of
appetisers and salads
• Beverages like beer,
wine, etc

13. Banquets
• Organising and
managing events-weddings,
conferences,
meetings through
indoor as well as
outdoor catering
• Major source of
revenue generation
• Some hotels specialise
in MICE business

14. Room Service/In-room dining
• Food and beverage
service served in guest
rooms
• Use of trolley or trays
• Service may operate 24
hrs or for specified time
duration
• Menu folders and door
knob menu provided in
guest rooms

15. Internet Cafe
• An internet
café or cybercafé
provides internet access
to the public, usually for
a time-based rate fee.
They may provide
snacks and drinks,
hence called café.
• E.g. Java Green at
Reliance World

16. Coffee/Espresso bar
• Specialise in beverages
made from espresso
coffee,tea along with
sandwiches, cookies,
pastries and merchandise
• Often have public WiFi
access to
provide Internet services
to people using laptop
computers on the
premises.

17. Food court
• Food courts consist of a
number of vendors at
food stalls or service
counters. Meals are
ordered at one of the
vendors and then carried
to a common dining area.
Food courts may be found
in shopping malls,
airports, train stations,
etc

18. Vending machines
• Dispense pre-packed or
portioned food and
beverages when coins
or tokens are inserted
• Used in areas with high
labour cost or limited
space
• Sited in shopping
centers, institutions,
bus/train stations,
airports, etc