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A restaurant is a building in which they are served food and beverages varied, to be enjoyed inside and sometimes even take away. The term covers a wide range of commercial activities and a variety of cuisine. Sometimes the restaurants are part of a larger complex, typically a hotel, in which case the environments for food are meant for use by guests, but they are often also open to external clients.
The French term restaurant (from restaurer, “refresh”) appeared for the first time in the sixteenth century, with the meaning “a food which restores”, and referred especially to a soup rich and refined taste. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the Sobrino de Botin in Madrid, in Spain, it would be the oldest restaurant still in operation. Indeed, it was opened in 1725. The modern meaning of the term was born around 1765, when a cook Parisian named Boulanger opened a catering business. The first restaurant to adopt the shape which then became standard nowadays.
The organization of the restaurant is based mainly on the coordination of the work of the departments of the hall and kitchen. These are managed respectively by a brigade of room under the orders of a maitre d ‘, and a kitchen brigade under the command of a chef. May also have other services such as reception, bar and cloakroom.
Restaurants range from unpretentious rooms for people working nearby, with simple food at low cost, to places at a high price, which serve food and wine in a formal setting. Typically, customers sit at their table, then their orders are taken by a waiter, who will bring them even when the food is ready, and the customer pays the bill at the end of the meal. Depending on the type of local, customers can add a tip, in varying proportions with respect to the account (usually 10-20%), which goes to the waiter or the restaurant. This addition can be directly added to the account or given voluntarily by the customer.
The expression “theme restaurants” is used to indicate those restaurants where prevails a specific topic on the type of furniture or clothing of personnel, or the type or the name of the course. Some examples are the American-themed restaurants, such as steak houses (literally steak houses ), which provide a menu composed mainly of grilled meats with a decor reminiscent of the saloon United States; vegetarian restaurants, which provide a menu composed solely of dishes vegetarian ; dark or restaurants, where the decor and names of dishes from the menu reminiscent environments horror or the great film directors of the genre.
A restaurant is a place where they serve prepared meals and beverages for consumption on site, in exchange for payment. The food is usually prepared by a chef. The term covers a multiplicity of venues and a variety of types of cuisines, both local and foreign. Restaurants are sometimes the device reserved for serving meals in a larger entity ( hotel, university, airport…), it is called collective restaurant as opposed to cooking site. They can also be associated with an activity of catering. The restaurant offers comfortable conditions more or less important, and the restoration is called ” fast ” when the customer can order and eat in minutes or tens of minutes, possibly standing.
Restore activity existed before the use of the word “restaurant.” Hoshi Ryokan, founded in 717, is the oldest inn in the world still in operation, though the choice and sophistication of the dishes are too limited to qualify an “inn” of “restaurant.” Stiftskeller St. Peter, cited in 803 and 807, is probably the oldest restaurant in the world still in operation, originally a monastery and an inn, it has no more hotel business. The Hostellerie de la Croix d’Or, founded in 1270, is the oldest restaurant in France still in operation, originally an inn. According to historian Oxfordian Carolin C. Young, a few cafes are open to the 1450s in Turkey and Egypt. Such as spreads slowly in the cities of Europe (Venice, Vienna…) until the 1650s when development is accelerating (Marseille, Lyon, Paris, Oxford…). The Café Procope, founded in 1686 is the first “restaurant” in the modern sense, initially importing exotic product for use on site: Italian ice cream and coffee.
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