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| café |
an informal, often small, restaurant that usually specializes in coffees, simple meals, and desserts. |
| cafeteria |
a dining hall or restaurant in which customers choose or are served their food at a counter. The customers then carry the food on trays to their tables. |
| check |
a bill for food and drink at a bar or restaurant. [1/11 definitions] |
| chef |
a cook in charge of a hotel or restaurant kitchen. |
| coffee shop |
a small restaurant that specializes in serving coffee, snacks, and light meals. |
| diner |
a roadside restaurant that serves inexpensive meals at a long counter or booths. [1/2 definitions] |
| drive-in |
a business, especially a restaurant, that serves people who drive up and stay seated in their cars. [1/2 definitions] |
| grill |
a restaurant where grilled foods are served. [1/4 definitions] |
| guest |
a customer at a hotel or restaurant. [1/2 definitions] |
| menu |
a list of foods served at a restaurant. |
| parlor |
a room in a house, hotel, restaurant, or the like for conversation or for entertaining guests. [1/2 definitions] |
| patron |
a regular customer of a shop, restaurant, or some other business. [1/2 definitions] |
| pepper grinder |
a device used generally in the home or in a restaurant for grinding pepper. |
| pick up the tab |
to pay the bill at a bar or restaurant. |
| reservation |
(often plural) an arrangement to have something saved for a particular person, such as a seat on a plane, a hotel room, or a table in a restaurant. [1/3 definitions] |
| review |
an article in a newspaper or magazine that judges the worth of a new book, film, play, restaurant, or the like. [1/7 definitions] |
| tab |
(informal) a bill at a bar or restaurant; check. [1/2 definitions] |
| takeout |
food taken out of a restaurant to be eaten elsewhere. [1/2 definitions] |
| trolley |
a British word for a table on wheels that is used for serving drinks or food, especially desserts, in a restaurant. "Trolley" has the same meaning as "cart." [1/4 definitions] |
| waiter |
a man who serves or waits on customers in a bar, restaurant, or cafe. |
| wait on |
to meet the wants and needs of in a restaurant. [1/2 definitions] |
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