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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 .
BFO is an abbreviation that stands for: Basic Formal Ontology; Beat frequency oscillator used to create an audio frequency signal for receiving continuous wave (Morse code) transmissions; The Black Forest Observatory in Germany; BiFeO 3 (Bismuth ferrite), an inorganic chemical compound; Boron monofluoride monoxide; Budapest Festival Orchestra
Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) is a top-level ontology developed by Barry Smith and his associates for the purposes of promoting interoperability among domain ontologies built in its terms through a process of downward population. A guide to building BFO-conformant domain ontologies was published by MIT Press in 2015.
One of the first crude examples of a BFO, the Goldschmidt tone wheel. Before vacuum tube oscillators were invented, the first CW receivers used a wheel with electrical contacts around its rim, spun at a high speed by a motor, to interrupt a current to create a radio frequency signal to beat with the incoming radio signal.
The foodservice (US English) or catering (British and Commonwealth English) industry includes the businesses, institutions, and companies which prepare meals outside the home. [1] It includes restaurants , grocery stores , school and hospital cafeterias , catering operations, and many other formats.
Food booth vendors cooking sausages at University District Street Fair, University District, Seattle, Washington A food booth – also called a food kiosk, food stand, food stall or temporary food service facility – is generally a temporary structure used to prepare and sell food to the general public, usually where large groups of people are situated outdoors in a park, at a parade, near a ...
A corporate office's cafeteria in Bengaluru, India, December 2003.. A cafeteria, sometimes called a canteen outside the U.S. and Canada, is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether in a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a school dining location is also referred to as a dining hall or ...
Typical shopping center food court vendor layout at Centre Eaton in Montreal, Quebec, Canada Pirate Champ's Cafe food court at Port Charlotte High School. A food court (in Asia-Pacific also called food hall or hawker centre) [1] is generally an indoor plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve ...