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A cafeteria is a restaurant serving mostly ready-cooked food arranged behind a food-serving counter. There is little or no table service and is typical of a restaurant within an institution or school, where it is often called a canteen. Typically, a patron takes a tray and pushes it along a track in front of the counter. Depending on the establishment, servings may be ordered from attendants, selected as ready-made portions already on plates, or self-serve their own portions. Cafeterias are different from coffeehouses, although that is the Spanish meaning of the English word.

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A casual dining restaurant is a restaurant that serves moderately priced food in a casual atmosphere. Except for buffet-style restaurants, casual dining restaurants typically provide table service. Casual dining comprises a market segment between fast food establishments and fine dining restaurants. Casual dining restaurants usually have a full bar with separate bar staff, a larger beer menu and a limited wine menu.

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Family style restaurants are restaurants that have a fixed menu and fixed price, usually with diners seated at a communal table such as on bench seats. More common in the 19th and early 20th century, they can still be found in rural communities, or as theme restaurants, or in holiday places. Typical of this type of restaurant is the The American Diner, Spur Steakhouse, Wimpy or Mike’s Kitchen.

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Fine dining restaurants have a specific, formal style in which they serve their guests.

• MENU: Normally a five or six course meal is served. Canopies, starters, main course, dessert, cheese and coffee with friandise. Guests can order individual dishes according to their taste.
• PREPARATION of food: Cooking staff are highly skilled and completed formal culinary training at culinary institute. Normally the staff functions according to a hierarchy structure with positions like Chef de Sauce, Chef de Cuisine etc.
• PRESENTATION of food is normally very eye-appealing and artisticly done with a lot of creativity and attention to detail.
• Food is SERVED by wait-staff with formal training who normally wears formal attire.
• PRICING of food can be expensive. This is due to the use of rare and expensive ingredients in the preparation of food of high quality.
• DECOR at a fine dining restaurant is normally of high quality and helps create a certain ambiance, according to the style the restaurateur prefers.

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Before the age of fast food and take aways the word restaurant used to describe a dining establishment where wait-staff served food to customers. Nowadays the term “fast food restaurant” is very common. In these restaurants people do not necessarily sit down with waiters serving them.

Thus the phrase “sit down restaurant” was born. This describes a dining establishment where people sit down to enjoy a meal while served by waiters. Sit down restaurants all have different styles. Some are family style and others formal style restaurants.

Fine dining restaurants are formal, full-service eating establishments that serve a dedicated meal course like a six course meal for example.

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