Restaurants have historically been categorized as either sit-down restaurants with table service or fast food/take-out without table service. Sit-down restaurants are now further classified as casual dining, premium casual, or family style. Additional restaurant categories include ethnic, fast casual, and cafeterias where patrons select ready-made food from a counter on their own tray without table service.

1. Types of restaurants
•Sandu Simona, MIEADR IMAPA, Group 8215
University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary
Medicine of Bucharest, Romania

2. Origin of categories
Historically, restaurant referred only to places that
provided tables where one ate while seated, typically served
by a waiter. Following the rise of fast food and take-
out restaurants, a retronym for the older "standard"
restaurant was created, sit-down restaurant. Most commonly,
"sit-down restaurant" refers to a casual-dining restaurant
with table service, rather than a fast food restaurant or
a diner, where one orders food at a counter. Sit-down
restaurants are often further categorized, in North America,
as "family-style" or "formal".

3. Categories of Restaurants
• Ethnic
• Fast food
• Fast casual
• Casual dining
• Premium casual
• Family style

4. Cafeteria
A cafeteria is a restaurant serving ready-cooked food
arranged behind a food-serving counter. There is no table
service. Typically, a patron takes a tray and pushes it along
a track in front of the counter. Depending on the
establishment, servings may be ordered from attendants,
selected as ready-made portions already on plates, or self-
serve their own portions. Cafeterias are common in
hospitals, corporations and educational institutions. In
Italy it's very common and known as "mensa aziendale".

5. Bibliography
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_resta
urants
• https://travelaway.me/restaurant-types/