Types of food service establishments

commercial types of food service establishments like restaurants and hotels

1. Types of Food service Establishment

2. Commercial Commercial food service operations are operated as business or for a profit motive Eg : hotels. Restaurants The types of food service operations are many to meet the demands of the customer.

3. Restaurant A restaurant, is a business that prepares and serves food and drinks to customers

4. A bistro a small restaurant , serving moderately priced simple meals in a modest setting with alcohol. bistros are defined mostly by the foods they serve.

5. brasserie is a type of French restaurant with a relaxed setting, which serves single dishes and other meals. The word brasserie is also French for "brewery" and, by extension, "the brewing business"

6. A coffeehouse , coffee shop , or café is an establishment that primarily serves coffee of various types, e.g. espresso , latte , and cappuccino . Some coffeehouses may serve cold drinks, such as iced coffee , iced tea , and other non-caffeinated beverages. In continental Europe, cafés serve alcoholic drinks. A coffeehouse may also serve food, such as light snacks, sandwiches , muffins , fruit, or pastries .

7. S peciality of a particular place is a special food or product that is always very good there.

8. Cafeteria A cafeteria is a restaurant serving ready-cooked food arranged behind a food-serving counter. There is no table service. 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.

9. Pub Traditionally, pubs were primarily drinking establishments with food in a secondary position, whereas many modern pubs rely on food as well, to the point where gastropubs are often known for their high-quality fine dining style pub food and concomitantly high prices. A typical pub has a large selection of beers and ales on tap.

10. Fine dining Fine dining restaurants are full-service restaurants with specific dedicated meal courses. Décor of such restaurants features higher-quality materials, with establishments having certain rules of dining which visitors are generally expected to follow, sometimes including a dress code. Fine dining establishments are sometimes called white-tablecloth restaurants, because they traditionally featured table service by servers, at tables covered by white tablecloths. The tablecloths came to symbolize the experience. The use of white tablecloths eventually became less fashionable, but the service and upscale ambiance remained

11. Fast food Fast food restaurants emphasize speed of service. Food is ordered not from the table, but from a front counter. Diners typically then carry their own food from the counter to a table of their choosing, and afterward dispose of any waste from their trays. Drive-through and take-out service may also be available. Fast food restaurants are known in the restaurant industry as QSRs or quick-service restaurants.

12. Dhaba is a roadside restaurant in the Indian subcontinent. They are on highways, generally serve local cuisine, and also serve as truck stops. They are most commonly found next to petrol stations, and most are open 24 hours a day.

13. rotisserie restaurant specializing in broiled and barbecued meats an appliance fitted with a spit on which food is rotated before or over a source of heat

14. Ba rbecue restaurant is a restaurant that specializes in barbecue-style cuisine and dishes Barbecue restaurants may open relatively early compared to other restaurants, in part to optimize sales while barbecued foods being slow-cooked by the process of smoking are being tended to by restaurant personnel on premises

15. kiosk a small building where things such as chocolate, drinks, or newspapers are sold through an open window

16. A bar also known as a pub or club, referring to the actual establishment, is a retail business establishment that serves alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, liquor, cocktails, and other beverages such as mineral water and soft drinks. Bars often also sell snack foods such as crisps (also referred to as potato chips) or peanuts, for consumption on their premises Some types of bars, such as pubs, may also serve food from a restaurant menu. The term "bar" also refers to the countertop and area where drinks are served.

17. A drive-in is a facility where one can drive in with an automobile for service. At a drive-in restaurant, for example, customers park their vehicles and are usually served by staff who walk or rollerskate out to take orders and return with food, encouraging diners to remain parked while they eat.

18. A food court 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 dinner Food courts may be found in shopping malls, airports, and parks In some places of learning such as high schools and universities, food courts have also come to replace or complement traditional cafeteria

19. ice cream parlours are places that sell ice cream, gelato, sorbet, and/or frozen yogurt to consumers. Ice cream is typically sold as regular ice cream with a limited number of flavors (e.g., chocolate, vanilla, and "twist", or "zebra", a mix of the two). Ice cream parlors generally offer a number of flavors and items. Parlors often serve ice cream and other frozen desserts in cones, cups or dishes, the latter two to be eaten with a spoon. Some ice cream parlors prepare ice cream desserts such as sundaes (ice cream topped with syrup, whipped cream and other toppings) or milkshakes, or even a blend (known as a Boston shake).

20. HOTEL The word hotel is derived from the French hôtel (coming from the same origin as hospital), which referred to a French version of a building seeing frequent visitors, and providing care, rather than a place offering accommodation

21. A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a refrigerator and other kitchen facilities, upholstered chairs, a flat screen television, and en-suite bathrooms. Small , lower-priced hotels may offer only the most basic guest services and facilities . Larger, higher-priced hotels may provide additional guest facilities such as a swimming pool, business centre (with computers, printers, and other office equipment), childcare, conference and event facilities, tennis or basketball courts, gymnasium, restaurants, day spa, and social function services. Hotel rooms are usually numbered (or named in some smaller hotels and B&Bs) to allow guests to identify their room

22. TYPES OF HOTELS Conference and Convention Centres Motels Extended Stay Hotels Serviced Apartments Resort Hotels Transit hotels

23. Conference and Convention Centres These type of hotels focus on meeting and conferences and overnight accommodation for meeting attendees. They also provide a video conferencing facility, audiovisual equipment, business services, flexible seating arrangements, flipchart etc. These hotels mostly located outside the metropolitan areas and have facilities like golf, swimming pools, tennis courts, fitness centres , spas etc.

24. Motels Motels have enjoyed an increase in their business in recent years as the increase in private car owners has materialised . A motel is a hotel mainly for motorists and located conveniently near a major motorway.

25. Extended Stay Hotels Extended stay hotels are somewhat similar to suite hotels, but usually offers kitchen amenities in the room. These kind of hotels are for long-stayers who want to stay more than a week and does not want to spend on hotel facilities.

26. Serviced Apartments Serviced Apartment / Residential hotels provide long-term or permanent accommodation for Guest . Usually guest makes a lease agreement with the hotel for a minimum of one month up to a year. Rooms generally include living room, bedroom, kitchen, private balcony, washing machines, kitchen utensils etc. Unlike normal hotels Serviced apartment only provide weekly one housekeeping service .

27. Resort Hotels Resort hotels are usually located in the mountains, on an island, or in some other exotic locations away from cities. These hotels have recreational facilities, scenery, golf, tennis, sailing, skiing and swimming. Resort hotels provide enjoyable and memorable guest experiences that encourage guest to repeat to the resort.

28. transit hotel short-stay hotel that is situated in the transit zone of international airports, where passengers on extended waits between planes (typically a minimum of six hours) can stay while waiting for their next flight. The hotel is within the airside security/passport checkpoints and close to the airport terminals .