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The millions of peopie who eat out every day have a wide variety of needs and tastes from a quick lunch to a luxurious meal with elaborate service. Because of these differences there are many kinds of restaurants varying from street stands serving snacks and fast food to elaborate restaurants with the best cooking. Restaurants generally fit into the following categories. The gourmet restaurant is a restaurant which offers meals that appeal to a person who appreciates the best in food and drink. Such person is called a gourmet. The service and prices are usually in accord with the quality of the meal so that these restaurants are the most expensive and luxurious of all food-service establishments. The family-type restaurant. Many eating places serve simple food moderate prices that appeal to family groups. Perhaps their principal feature is the reliability they offer their customers through standardized food and service. Many of these restaurants are owned by chains or operated under a franchise, an arangement in wiich the name and procedures of the business are leased fron a central organization. The specially restaurant offers a limited variely or style of food. lengua y specialize in steaks or in fish or in a particular kind of national food, or it may depend on the nosphere, decor, or personality of the owner to attract custoners. Boun the uality of the food and the prices are usually between those of the gourmet and famly-type restaurants. Tne convenience restaurant serves customers who want to eat in a hurry and are interested in fast service, cleanliness and low price. One example of such an eating place is the lunch counter which ordinarily serves sandwiches and Other simple foods and beverages. A modern variation of the lunch counter is the fast food operation. Another way to categorize restaurants is by the kind of service ; they offer. There are basically four types: table service, counter service, self-service and take away (carry-out). In table service restaurants, customers are seated at tables where food is served by a waiter or a waitress. In counter service restaurants, customers sit at a counter and are served either by the person who prepares the food or hy a waiter of waitress. A seli-service restaurant is trequently called a buffet .or cafeteria. There customers pass in front of a counter where food is displayed and help themselves to what they wani, then they carry the foou a tabie themseives.
Вопрос :
Answer the following questions:
Why are there so many different restaurants?
What types of restaurants are mentioned in the text? What is a gourmet? What kind of food does a gourmet restaurant offer? Why is it expensive?
What is the principal feature of a family-type restaurant? What other things appeal to people in such restaurants? What is a franchise? What does a specialty restaurant offer? How does it compare with gourmet and family-type restaurant
Who eats at convenience restaurants?
Why have they become so popular? What category do institutional foodservices fall into?
• • How are street stands categorized?
What is another way to categorize restaurants? What is the ference between
table service and counter service? • How is a self-service restaurant frequently called?
What kind of service is take-away (carry-out)?
• Why is it growing so fast?
What is gourmet cuisine? How is it different from other type foodservices? Why do many areas rely heavily on regional cuisine? Why is the choice of cuisine so important both for the custom and the
restaurateur?
