Types of Restaurants
This type of restaurant does not have servers, with customers instead ordering at a counter and collecting their own food. Typically there is limited seating and customers may take their food to go.
What is Quick Service/Counter Service/QSR?
In France, an establishment emerged serving restorative broths and soups, giving us this word.
What is a "restaurant"?
In this country, 11th century diners could visit dining establishments that featured displays of plated food, dining rooms, and singing waiters.
What is China?
This businessman and restaurant founder never served in the military, but did open a restaurant in 1953 in Salt Lake City, UT selling his "Secret Recipe" southern-style chicken.
Who is Colonel Sanders?
This British chef is known for his fiery temper and successful television series like “Hell’s Kitchen” and “MasterChef.”
Who is Gordon Ramsey?
A dining establishment, common in Medieval Europe that served simple meals and drinks. They were most commonly patronized by the working class or travelers.
What is a tavern?
This historic event in France lead to private chefs becoming unemployed, resulting in them moving throughout Europe and opening their own establishments.
What is the French Revolution?
Popular in Greece and Rome, this type of establishment sold hot, ready to eat foods for customers to take to-go.
What is a Thermopolium?
In 1968, William Darden founded this popular seafood restaurant, famous for its biscuits, in Lakeland, FL.
What is Red Lobster?
This chef, famous for his spiky blond hair and sunglasses, was the winner of the TV show "The Next Food Network Star", which led to a successful TV career that includes cooking shows, game shows, and a travel program where he travels the United States trying foods at popular diners and other restaurants.
Who is Guy Fieri?
This quintessentially American establishment evolved from night lunch wagons and by the 1930s became stationary (often prefabricated) buildings with a lunch counter.
This culinary innovation, created by Escoffier in the early 20th century, revolutionized restaurant kitchens and organization.
What is the Brigade System?
During WWII, restaurants were exempt from these regulations that were enforced to help the war effort.
Ray Kroc was originally a milkshake machine salesman until 1961, when he purchased this burger stand, serving as CEO from 1967-1973, franchising and expanding it into a global chain.
What is McDonalds?
This celebrity chef and author of “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” and brought French cuisine into American homes through her groundbreaking television show, which first aired in 1963.
Who is Julia Child?
This category of restaurant has extensive menus, waitstaff and a dining room where customers can sit and dine.
What is Full Service/Table Service/FSR?
This chef, a colleague of Cesar Ritz, was famous for his signature dishes like Peach Melba and Cherries Jubilee, as well as for creating the Brigade de Cuisine.
Who is Auguste Escoffier?
Archeologists have recently discovered a well preserved example of a thermopolium in the ruins of this ancient city.
What is Pompeii?
In 1950, Bill Rosenberg opened this breakfast restaurant in Quincy, MA. Today it is one of the largest coffee and donut chains in the world.
This chef gained national fame in 1993 when he hosted "How to Boil Water", one of the first shows on the then brand new Food Network. He soon became famous for his signature catchphrases: "Kick it up a notch!" and "Bam"
Who is Emeril Lagasse?
This type of restaurant, serving simple food at a very low price, emerged in the 1930s during the Great Depression.
What is a penny restaurant?
This French chef served as a personal chef to Napoleon and Tsar Nicolas II, and was famous for his edible show-stopping displays, as well as his contributions to haute cuisine.
Marie-Antoine Careme
Popular in Japan since the 1500s, this style of restaurant serves a fixed multi-course menu of artistic dishes.
What is Kaiseki?
Detroit native Mike Illich founded this popular pizza chain in 1959 in Garden City, MI. He also own(ed) the Detroit Redwings (NHL), and the Detroit Tigers (MLB). The arena the Redwings play at shares a name with the pizza chain.
What is Little Caesar's?
This Austrian chef opened Spago in 1982 on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. He is credited with the popularity of "California-style" pizza- gourmet pizzas with unique and unexpected toppings. He currently has over 20 restaurants around the world, including a bar and grill that shares his name at Disney Springs at Walt Disney World.
Who is Wolfgang Puck?