| A restaurant prepares and serves food, dessert and drink to customers in return for money. Restaurants offer take-out and food delivery services. Restaurants vary in appearance and offerings, including a wide variety of main chef's cuisines and service models. Modern restaurants as business dedicated to the serving of food, where specific dishes are ordered by guest and prepared according to order.
Restaurants are often specialize in certain types of food such as seafood restaurants, vegetarian restaurants or ethnic restaurants. Sale of alcohol is considered to be activity for bars. Some restaurants are licensed to serve alcohol and permit customer to bring own alcohol. The owner of restaurant is called a restaurateur. Professional cooking staff are called chefs.
Restaurants are categorized into three groups:quick service, mid scale and upscale. Quick Service is also known as fast-food restaurants. They offer limited menus and have drive-thru windows and take-out. Mid scale offer full meals at a medium cost. They can be of full service, limited service with customers ordering at the counter and having their food brought to them or self service.
Upscale offer high quality cuisine at high end price and offer full service. Restaurants having own website are likely to offer discount to web visitors. One can enjoy this by using the website link. Various types of restaurants are cafeterias, fast-food restaurants, casual restaurants, fast casual-dining restaurants etc.
Restaurants are fast emerging contributors to the economy in terms of VAT contribution, direct and indirect employment and other government levies. Restaurants in India has grown significantly over the last few years both by domestic and international chains. Restaurants provide not only eating option but also are a key part of retail destinations including malls and local shopping centers, corporate park and educational institutions.
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