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Miami Beach waitress in 1973 A waitress in a hotel, North Korea A Swedish waitress, 2012. Waiting staff (), [1] waiters (MASC) / waitresses (FEM), or servers (AmE) [2] [3] are those who work at a restaurant, a diner, or a bar and sometimes in private homes, attending to customers by supplying them with food and drink as requested.
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.
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'.
According to the Cambridge Business English Dictionary the "hospitality industry" consists of hotels and food service, [7] equivalent to NAICS code 72, "Accommodation and Food Service". However, the United States Department of Labor Standard Industry Classification (SIC) defines the hospitality industry more broadly, as noted above.
The food system, including food service and food retailing supplied $1.24 trillion worth of food in 2010 in the US, $594 billion of which was supplied by food service facilities, defined by the USDA as any place which prepares food for immediate consumption on site, including locations that are not primarily engaged in dispensing meals such as recreational facilities and retail stores. [2]
Food Lover’s Companion is a book containing culinary terminology and conversion tables for cooking. Five editions have been published as of 2019. Five editions have been published as of 2019. The main section of the work is an A-to-Z list of defined culinary terminology, followed by a series of appendices.
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Culinary arts are the cuisine arts of food preparation, cooking, and presentation of food, usually in the form of meals. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] People working in this field – especially in establishments such as restaurants – are commonly called chefs or cooks , although, at its most general, the terms culinary artist and culinarian are also used.