Difference between restaurant and cafeteria

Posted By: Sm Adminon: February 01, 2016In: Business and Finance

Restaurant:
Restaurant is a public place which serves food and drinks in exchange for money to the customers. It offers a seating arrangement. It provides more emphasis on service. It offers a wide menu along with the prices. The food is usually prepared after it is ordered from the menu.
Cafeteria:
A cafeteria is a place where foods and drinks are served in exchange of monetary value. It may or may not provide seating arrangements. Cafeteria doesn’t serve the alcoholic beverages.
Differences:

Basis	Restaurant	Cafeteria
Definition (www.oxforddictionaries.com)	A place where people pay to sit and eat meals that are cooked and served on the premises.	A restaurant in which customers serve themselves from a counter and pay before eating.
Synonyms	Buffet, diner, eating place, tavern, cabaret	Canteen, refectory, snack bar, dining room, snack bar
Types	Its types are: Ethnic Fast food Fast casual Casual dining Family style Fine dining	Its types are: Bar mleczny Britling Cafeterias Clifton’s Cafeteria Dubrow’s Cafeteria Forum Cafeterias K&W Cafeterias Laughner’s Cafeteria Luby’s Manning’s Cafeterias MCL Cafeterias Morrison’s Cafeteria Mr. Fables Piccadilly Restaurants Raymond’s Bar-B-Que Cafeteria Sholl’s Colonial Cafeteria Yesterdog
History	In Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, thermopolia (singular thermopolium) were small restaurant-bars that offered food and drinks to customers. A typical thermopolium had little L-shaped counters in which large storage vessels were sunk, which would contain either hot or cold food. Their popularity was linked to the lack of kitchens in many dwellings and the ease with which people could purchase prepared foods.	Perhaps the first self-service restaurant (not necessarily considered a cafeteria) in the United States was the Exchange Buffet in New York City, opened September 4, 1885, which catered to an exclusively male clientele. Food was purchased at a counter, and patrons ate standing up.
Word origin	The word restaurant was originated from Early 19th century: from French, from restaurer ‘provide food for’ (literally ‘restore to a former state’).	The word cafeteria was originated from Mid 19th century (originally US): from Latin American Spanish cafetería ‘coffee shop’.
Pronunciation	Eng (UK): /ˈrɛst(ə)rɒnt/ /ˈrɛst(ə)r(ə)nt/ /ˈrɛst(ə)rɒ̃/ Eng (US): /ˈrest(ə)rənt/ /ˈrest(ə)ˌränt/	Eng (UK): /kafɪˈtɪərɪə/ Eng (US): /kafɪˈtɪərɪə/
Advantages/Benefits	Its advantages are: easy taste good quickly prepared wide choices you don’t have to cook it, they bring it out to you they supply drinks they probably cook better than you can be cheap nice environment	Its advantages are: Able to eat in a controlled environment More jobs
Disadvantages	Its disadvantages are: can be expensive could get a rude waiter could be waiting a long time for food may not have what you want may not have seating arrangements for you could be busy might be loud you don’t know what they are putting in your food you don’t know who is making your food	Its disadvantages are: More space
Example in Sentence	We went to a Thai restaurant last time. Let’s go to a fine restaurant to celebrate our victory.	I left my cell phone in a cafeteria. I don’t like the food of that cafeteria.