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A non-alcoholic bar is a bar that does not serve alcoholic beverages. A strip club is a bar with nude entertainers. A bar and grill is also a restaurant. Some persons may designate either a room or an area of a room as a home bar. Arrangements can vary from being simple, with bottles of alcohol, cups, and perhaps basic bar supplies, to full bars.
The word derives from the early 19th century, taken from the French word restaurer 'provide meat for', literally 'restore to a former state' [2] and, being the present participle of the verb, [3] the term restaurant may have been used in 1507 as a "restorative beverage", and in correspondence in 1521 to mean 'that which restores the strength, a fortifying food or remedy'.
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 .
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 .
A bar might be provided for the manager or publican to do paperwork while keeping an eye on his or her customers, and the term "bar" applied to the publican's office where one was built, [66] but beer would be tapped directly from a cask or barrel on a table, or kept in a separate taproom and brought out in jugs.
A bar at Sheremetyevo International Airport, July 1980. A drinking establishment is a business whose primary function is the serving of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises. [1] Some establishments may also serve food, or have entertainment, but their main purpose is to serve alcoholic beverages.
Devotees may describe a bar as "very divey" or "not divey" and compose rating scales of "divey-ness". [8] One such devotee is Steve Vensen, founder of a California group called the DBC (Dive Bar Conoisseurs) who says, "Every dive bar is like a snowflake: diverse and unique. . . you always get local subculture and every time is an adventure."
Traditional restaurant Hoteliers, travel agents, restaurateurs, barkeeps and their employees The hospitality industry is a broad category of fields within the service industry that includes lodging , food and beverage services , event planning , theme parks , travel agency , tourism , hotels , restaurants , nightclubs , and bars .