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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.
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.
During the evening, they also collect and wash dirty dishes and glassware, clean tables (though there is a busser for this in larger bars), change kegs, and help to pack up the bar after closing time. [2] Although the legal drinking age in the United States is 21, the minimum age to work as a bartender or barback varies from 18 to 21. [3]
Robert Downey Jr., American actor, worked as a busser at a restaurant in New York City for three years, because he was "too sweaty" to work as a waiter. [25] Richard Feynman, American physicist, experimented with ways to optimize dish-stacking while working as a busser during the summer growing up. [26] [27]
Between 175,000 and 200,000 lunch boxes are moved each day by 4,500 to 5,000 dabbawalas. Tiffin-wallahs are self-employed. The union initiation fee is 30,000 rupees, which guarantees a 5,000-rupee monthly income and a job for life. The 150 rupee a month fee provides for delivery six days a week. (2002) [23] [24] [25]
On Monday, Dec. 23, the fast food chain opened Saucy, a new concept store in Orlando. Unlike KFC restaurants, which sell everything from fried chicken pieces to nuggets to chicken sandwiches, the ...
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'.
Billy Bob Thornton is more than happy to play a foul-mouthed Santa (“Bad Santa”) or a high school football coach (“Friday Night Lights”) or a NASA scientist (“Armageddon”), but one ...