A restaurant is an establishment trading in most cases, the public which pays for food and drinkfor consumption on the premises or carry out. Today there are a variety of forms of service (like: coupons for restaurants) and types of cuisine.
The word comes from French “restaurant” which means “salamanca” referring to the food offered at the time (a broth). Another version of the origin of the word to name the restaurant eateries, is also found in France. According to this second version, an innkeeper named Boulanger, inaugurating that could be considered the first eating house, put a slogan at the entrance, which read in Latin: “Venite ad me qui vos et ego restaurabo stomach laboratis you”.

Types of catering establishments and formulas

Buffet restaurant. It is possible to choose yourself a variety of dishes and prepared for self-service. Sometimes it pays a fixed amount and sometimes by amount consumed (weight or types of dishes). Emerged in the 70′s, is a quick and easy to serve large groups of people.

Fast Food Restaurant (fast food). Casual restaurants where food is consumed simple and rapid preparation as burgers, fries, pizza or chicken. Some of the most popular chain restaurants are McDonald’s, Burger King, Quick, KFC, Pizza Hut or Domino’s pizza.

Restaurants and gourmet cuisine. The food is high quality and served at the table. The order is “a la carte or chosen from a “menu”, so that food is cooked to order. The cost is according to the service and the quality of the food it consumes. There are porters or waiters, led by a Maitre. The service, the decor, the ambience, food and drinks are carefully chosen.

Theme Restaurants. They are sorted by the type of food offered. The most common are as home cooking, the most popular around the world: Italian cuisine and Chinese cuisine, but Mexican cuisine, Japanese cuisine, Spanish cuisine, French cuisine, Peruvian cuisine, Thai cuisine, restaurants, entertainment, among others.

Takeaway or take away. They are establishments that offer a variety of first courses, second, and a variety of snacks, which are set out in hot or cold display cases, depending on their condition. The customer chooses the offer and drawing up a menu to your liking, since the supply is by individual portions or as groups of menus. Within the take away you can find specialized in a particular type of product or a particular ethnic cuisine. Like fast food, dishes and utensils are used disposable containers. One example is the rotisserie, the broiler chickens, etc.