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This is a list of restaurant terminology.A restaurant is a business that prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money, either paid before the meal, after the meal, or with a running tab. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services.
Diner lingo. Diner lingo is a kind of American verbal slang used by cooks and chefs in diners and diner-style restaurants, and by the wait staff to communicate their orders to the cooks. [1][2] Usage of terms with similar meaning, propagated by oral culture within each establishment, may vary by region or even among restaurants in the same locale.
Cook (profession) Cordon bleu (dish) Creaming (food) Crispiness. Crudités. Culinary arts. Culinary name. Curdling. Curing (food preservation)
Table service. Table sharing. Taco Tuesday. Take-out. List of restaurant terminology. Three-martini lunch. Types of restaurant.
Meals. In restaurants, à la carte (/ ɑːləˈkɑːrt /; French: [a la kaʁt]; lit. 'at the card') [1] is the practice of ordering individual dishes from a menu in a restaurant, as opposed to table d'hôte, where a set menu is offered. [2] It is an early 19th century loan from French meaning "according to the menu". [3][4]
Drinkware, beverageware (in other words, cups) is a general term for a vessel intended to contain beverages or liquid foods for drinking or consumption. [2] Beaker. Beer glassware. Bottle. Coffee cup. Cup. Dwarf ale glass. Heavy baluster glass. Jar. Mazagran. Mug. Pythagorean cup. Quaich [3]. Sake cup (ochoko). Stemware. Tazza. Teacup. Tiki mug ...
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 ...
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