This document discusses different types of restaurants including fast food restaurants, cafeterias, casual dining restaurants, coffeehouses, pubs, bistros/brasseries, and ethnic restaurants. It describes the key characteristics, types of food served, patron treatment, and examples for each type. The overall purpose is to classify and define different categories of eating establishments.

1. Pro:
”TYPES OF RESTAURANTS”
Asignature: English for Services
Group: English B1
Teacher: Lorena Reyes Aguilar
Student: Noh Poot Alida Jeanette
Career: Gastronomy
Matricule: 12354630
Date: January 22th, 2012

2. RESTAURANT
 From my point of view a restaurant is a business dedicated to
offering different types of dishes, food, with an specialty
specific like Mediterranean Food, Asiatic Food, Mexican
Food, etc.
 The restaurant offer a service of quality to customers, for
satisfaction of both.

3. CAFETERIA
 Is a Catering Establishment
Snack and meals usually not
have dishes.
 A restaurant in which patrons
wait on themselves, carrying
their food to tables from
counters where it is displayed
and served.
 a lunchroom or dining hall, as
in a factory, office, or school,
where food is served from
counters or dispensed from
vending machines or where
food brought from home may
be eaten.

4. TYPE OF FOOD
SERVED
 In addition, there are often stations where
customers order food and wait while it is prepared,
particularly for items such as hamburgers or tacos
which must be served hot and can be quickly
prepared.
 For some food items and drinks, such as sodas,
water, or the like, customers collect an empty
container, pay at the check-out, and fill the
container after the check-out.

5. PATRON TREATMENT
 Instead of table service, there are food-serving
counters/stalls, either in a line or allowing arbitrary
walking paths. Customers take the food they
require as they walk along, placing it on a tray.

6. EXAMPLES
 A lunchroom or dining hall, as in a factory, office, or school,
where food is served from counters or dispensed from
vending machines or where food brought from home may be
eaten.
 Starbucks coffee, Café Nader.

7. FAST FOOD
RESTAURANT
CHARACTERISTICS
 Homogeneity of the establisment Served and The
absence of waiters to serve at the table.
 The fact the mail is served without cutlery or
crockery
 The food directly from the disposable container

8. TYPE OF FOOD
SERVED
Pizza
Tacos
Burgers
Fried Chicken
Fries and Onion rings

9. PATRON TREATMENT
 It´s a style of food where food is prepared and
served to consume quickly in specialized.

10. EXAMPLES

11. CASUAL
RESTAURANT
 CHARACTERISTICS:
 Are Primarily chain restaurants.
 The Quality of food and Prices tend to be higher
than those of a conventional fast food restaurant.

12. TYPE OF FOOD
SERVED
High quality ingredients
Like range chichen and freshly made
sauces.
quick-serve stock

13. PATRON TREATMENT
Usually don’t offer full table services but
may offer non-disposable plates and
cutlery.
Serves moderately-priced food in a casual
atmosphere.

14. EXAMPLES
CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL
PANERA BREAD
CHILIS

15. FAST CASUAL- DINING
RESTAURANT
 CHARACTERISTICS
 Is a restaurant that serves moderately priced food in a casual
Atmosphere.
 Except for buffet-style restaurants, casual dining restaurants
typically provide table service.

16. TYPE OF FOOD
SERVED
 Their food tends to be presented as more upscale.
 As Gourmet breads and Organic Ingredients.

17. PATRON TREATMENT
 Typically provide table service.
 Usually independently owned and operated.
 Casual dining restaurants often have a full bar with separate
bar staff, a larger beer menu and a limited wine menu.

18. EXAMPLES
 TRATTORIA (ITALY)

19. COFFEEHOUSE
 CHARACTERISTICS:
 Are Casual Restaurants without Table Service that
emphasize coffee and other beverage.
 Limited Selection of cold Food such Pastries and Baguettes.

20. TYPE OF FOOD
SERVED
 Coffee
 Cold Food & Pastries.
 Sandwiches
 Baguettes
 Beagels

21. PATRON TREATMENT
 Their distinguishing feature is that they allow patrons to relax
and socialize on their premises for long periods of time
without pressure to leave promptly after eating, frequently
chosen as sites for meetings.

22. EXAMPLES

23. PUB
 Is a Bar That Sometimes Serves Simple Food
Fare.
 Pubs were primarily drinking establishments with
food in a secondary position.

24. TYPE OF FOOD
SEVED
 High-Quality Pub Food and concomitantly high
prices.
 Has a Large Selection of Beers and ales on tap.

25. PATRON TREATMENT
 In these Establishments all the decor
ambience revolve around a Specific Topic.
and

26. EXAMPLES

27. BISTROS AND
BRASSIERE
 Restaurant Serving Moderately Priced hearty meals “Comfort
Foods”.
 The service is fast
 Offered variety in cafés are places family.

28. TYPE OF FOOD
SERVED
 Usually indicates a continental Menu.
 Food is of a regular-sized and lightweight.

29. PATRON TREATMENT
 Usually Have More Refined Decor, Fewer tables finer Foods
and higher prices.
 The service is warm
 Meals are prepared at the time of this writing, the
 Atmosphere is nice
 Prices are moderate

30. EXAMPLES
 Especially in Paris, bistros have become increasingly popular
with tourists.

31. ETHNIC
RESTAURANT
 Restaurants that feature foods of different nationality of
cuisines.
 They range from quick-service to upscale.
 Specialize in a particular multicultural cuisine not specifically
accommodated by any other listed categories

32. TYPE OF FOOD
SERVED
 Depending on the specialty and the thematic.

33. PATRON TREATMENT
 In these establisments all the decor and ambience revolve
around a specific topic.
 The treatment will depend on the region or focus of the
restaurant.

34. EXAMPLES