Restaurant

Definition: Restaurant

Restaurant

Noun

1. A building where people go to eat.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "restaurant" was first used: 1827. (references)

19th Century Satire

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Restaurant

Abode

Assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn; hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice; public house, pub, pot house, mug house; gin mill, gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel house, cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop, dive, exchange; grill room, saloon, shebeen; coffee house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada; almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse.

Crosswords: Restaurant

Catalan (restaurant), Danish (restaurant), Dutch (restaurant), Flemish (restaurant), French (café, chop-house, eatery, restaurant), French Canadian (restaurant), Frisian (inn), German (restaurant), Norwegian (restaurant), Occitan (restaurant), Provencal (restaurant), Romanian (bar, drive in, eating house, restaurant).

Now get them out of here before she sees them! Look away, just look away, keep your eyes that way! You would think that in a fancy restaurant at these prices you could keep the snails off the food (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.)

You embarassin' yourself, man, you're a black man with a Chinese restaurant on Crenshaw (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson)

I thought you meant the other Italian restaurant where I asked you to marry me. (The Sixth Sense; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

It was the Restaurant Guide Book of New York (The Ref; writing credit: Marie Weiss and Richard LaGravenese. Starring Denis Leary as Gus, Judy Davis as Caroline Chasseur and Kevin Spacey as Lloyd Chasseur.)

Nice Greek girls who don't find a husband, work in the family restaurant. So here I am, day after day, year after year, thirty and way past my expiration date (My Big Fat Greek Wedding; writing credit: Nia Vardalos)

There's a restaurant down the street (Pinch Me; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

In a restaurant in a West End town (WEST END GIRLS; performing artist: Pet Shop Boys)

At the restaurant you start to cry (Just Another Day In Paradise; performing artist: Phil Vassar)

Fancy restaurant me and Kay frontin', (Code Red; performing artist: Prince)

I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant (Nothing Compares 2 U; performing artist: Sinéad O'Connor)

Sign on restaurant window: Great food (50,000 flies can't be wrong). (references; author: unknown)

Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool? (references; author: unknown)

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time." So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance. (references; author: unknown)

Alice's Restaurant (1969)

The Nude Restaurant (1967)

Le Grand restaurant (1966)

Restaurant (1965)

Marturiile unei mese de restaurant (1963)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Boston Restaurant Associates, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Cooker Restaurant Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Furr's Restaurant Group, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Hotel and Restaurant Equipment in United Arab Emirates: A Strategic Entry Report, 1998 (reference)

• Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• The Food of Campanile: Recipes from the Famed Los Angeles Restaurant (reference)

• Commander's Kitchen : Take Home the True Taste of New Orleans With More Than 150 Recipes from Commander's Palace Restaurant (reference)

• Restaurant Confidential (reference)

• Big Bowl Noodles and Rice: Fresh Asian Cooking from the Renowned Restaurant (reference)

• The Lady & Sons Just Desserts: More Than 120 Sweet Temptations from Savannah's Favorite Restaurant (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Atlantic Restaurant News (reference)

• Canadian Restaurant & Foodservices Association Membership (reference)

• Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly (reference)

• Crittendens Restaurant Chain Report (reference)

• Hotel & Restaurant Magazine (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Alice's Restaurant (reference)

• Restaurant (reference)

• Manners By Michele, Volume 3; Restaurant Etiquette and Wines (reference)

• Would Your Restaurant Kitchen Pass Inspection? (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Alice's Restaurant (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Zagat 2002 Restaurant Survey (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Bauen-Pagoda Home Restaurant Deep Lasagne Pan with Roast Rack (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Pictured is a Japanese-American family. There is a mother, father and a pre-school boy. They are seated in an outdoor restaurant and are eating hamburgers and drinking milk. Because Japanese-Americans tend to marry among themselves, factors other than genetic must be examined for cancer incidence. Diet and other lifestyle variations are being studied. Japanese who emigrate to California and change their lifestyles, seem to have an increased incidence of colon cancer. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Shown are a black man and woman eating lunch at a small restaurant table. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

A pier at Islamorada Fish Co. restaurant and market. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The "Hard Conch" restaurant displays shell art. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Edison restaurant on top floor of Edison storage battery building;August,1919;{10.110/15}.

Some of the attendees at an informal party given by Rear Admiral Harold B. Miller, USN(Retired), for foreign correspondents who served in the Pacific area during World War II. The gathering was held at the Toots Shor restaurant in New York City Present are (left to right): Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN; Actor Henry Fonda; Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, USN, Chief of Naval Operations; and Under Secretary of the Navy Dan A. Kimball. Mr. Fonda, who served as a Naval Officer during World War II, was starring in the play "Mr. Roberts" at this time. Credit: NAVY.

Albert H. Bien restaurant (Tredyffrin Township, Pa.). Wrought iron step rail with lanterns. Elevation and plan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Design drawing for a restaurant ("Madrillon Restaurant"), Washington, D.C. Interior perspective of arcade and stage. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gertie. Gertie with woman outside Kids' restaurant, women being seated, woman eating soup while Gertie holds up waiters at gunpoint, and women leaving restaurant with food. Credit: Library of Congress.

Women in restaurant in high building. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe

This Rousseau restaurant, where so few bottles and so many pitchers were emptied, was rather an appeasant than a restorant

Inside the screened restaurant a radio played, quiet dance music turned low the way it is when no one is listening

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Health

You can protect yourself first by choosing which restaurant to patronize. (references)

When you go to a restaurant, do not sit near the kitchen or near a band playing music. (references)

Contamination may also occur during food preparation in the restaurant or in the person's kitchen. (references)

Business

The UK restaurant market is changing. (references)

The Restaurant group accounts for five percent of total demand. (references)

Pizza Hut controls twenty percent of the pizza restaurant market. (references)

Economic History

Mauritius

McDonald's opened its first restaurant in July 2001. (references)

Malaysia

Trade, hotel and restaurant industries performed equally well. (references)

Lebanon

The hotel and restaurant sector is a dynamic market in Lebanon. (references)

Human Rights

Bulgaria

While police were raiding a restaurant in Sofia, Mironov tried to escape through a bathroom window. (references)

France

Police arrested eight Breton militants for their alleged involvement in the April 2000 bombing of a restaurant near Dinan that killed a female employee. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

In August a suicide bomber blew himself up in the Sbarro Restaurant in West Jerusalem, killing 15 persons and injuring 130. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad took responsibility. (references)

Minorities

Poland

In Poznan the theater founder was refused service in a restaurant in what she perceived to be a racially motivated incident. (references)

Czech Republic

Approximately 45 skinheads had gathered earlier in the day in a nearby town to celebrate Adolf Hitler's birthday, and upon arriving at a restaurant in Novy Bor, began taunting Roma who were there. (references)

Czech Republic

One government initiative--the three "Romani-inspector" positions authorized to penalize shop and restaurant owners who refuse service to Roma--has been criticized for ineffectiveness and lack of resources. (references)

Political Economy

JORDAN

Maximum working hours are 48 per week, with the exception of hotel, bar, restaurant, and movie theater employees, who may work up to 54 hours. (references)

Travel

Armenia

Hotel Bass Restaurant, 3 Aigedzor St., Yerevan. (references)

Spain

A service charge is normally included in restaurant bills. (references)

Women

Bahrain

Although prostitution is illegal, some foreign women, including some who work as hotel and restaurant staff, engage in prostitution. (references)

Turkey

Women generally receive equal pay for equal work in the professions, business, and civil service jobs, although a large percentage of women employed in agriculture and in the trade, restaurant, and hotel sectors work as unpaid family help. (references)

Worker Rights

Jordan

Hotel, restaurant, and cinema employees may work up to 54 hours per week. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "restaurant": barbecue restaurant ♦ best known restaurant ♦ chinese restaurant syndrome ♦ fast food restaurant ♦ fish restaurant ♦ Hotel and Restaurant Union ♦ kosher restaurant ♦ leaving restaurant without paying ♦ parody of a restaurant ♦ pavement restaurant ♦ quiet restaurant ♦ restaurant attendant ♦ restaurant car ♦ restaurant chain ♦ restaurant food ♦ restaurant manager ♦ restaurant owner ♦ restaurant price ♦ restaurant proprietor ♦ seafood restaurant. Additional references.

Beginning with "restaurant": restaurant-car, restaurant-cum-souvenir-shop, restaurant-goers, restaurant-it, restaurant-keeper, restaurant-owner, restaurant-program, restaurant-reporting, restaurant-starved, restaurant-style.

Ending with "restaurant": bar-restaurant, Chalet-restaurant, deli-restaurant, farmhouse-restaurant, hotel-cum-restaurant, hotel-restaurant, italian-restaurant, nightclub-restaurant, wagon-restaurant.

Containing "restaurant": deli-cum-restaurant-cum.

Albanian

restorant (eatery, eating house, noshery). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محل للأكل, ‏مطعم (cafe, canteen, dining room, eatery, tavern), ‏صالون للطعام. (various references)

Asturian

restorán. (various references)

Basque

jatetxe. (various references)

Bavarian

wiaddschafdd. (various references)

Bulgarian 

ресторант (eatery). (various references)

Catalan

restaurant. (various references)

Cebuano

restawran. (various references)

Chinese 

餐館 , 餐馆, 飯館 , 飯店 . (various references)

Cornish

bosty. (various references)

Croatian

restoranu, restoran. (various references)

Czech

restaurace (public house, renovation, restaurants, restoration). (various references)

Danish

restaurant. (various references)

Dutch

restaurant, restauratie (catering, line restoration, restoration), eethuis. (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

micuna huasi. (various references)

Esperanto

restoracion, restoracio. (various references)

Estonian

restorani, restoran. (various references)

Faeroese

matstova (dining-room). (various references)

Farsi 

کافه (Buffet, Cafe), رستوران (Buffet, Cafe, Salon, Saloon, Teashop). (various references)

Finnish

ravintola. (various references)

Flemish

restaurant. (various references)

French

restaurant. (various references)

French Canadian

restaurant. (various references)

German

Restaurant. (various references)

Greek 

εστιατόριο (rathskeller, refectory). (various references)

Haitian Creole

restoran (restaurants). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסעדה. (various references)

Hungarian

étterem (place, victualling-house), vendéglő (dump, inn, ordinary, place, public house). (various references)

Inuktitut

nirijaqtuqvik. (various references)

Irish

bialann (restaurants), bialainne, bhialann. (various references)

Italian

ristorante (eatery, refreshing, refreshingly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

飲食店 (shops serving food and drink), 飯店 , レスキュー隊 (label, ladies, ladies first, lady, Lady Borden, laisser-faire, lead, led, leg warmers, lesbian, lesser panda, lesson, letter, letter facsimile, letterhead, lettering, lettuce, medical practitioners' receipt for health insurance claim, medical prescription, ready-made, reception, red, red purge, red tape, Redmond, rescue squad, resolution, resonance, respirator, response, rest, rest house, rest room, restaurant hotel, restaurant theater, retort, retouch, rhetoric, sticker, tow truck, wrestling), 料理店 , 料理屋 , 料亭 , 旗亭 (inn), 御食事処 , 割烹店 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おしょくじどころ, レストラン , きてい (base, default, established, ground, inn, inner rules, launch, official regulations, provisions, regulation), かっぽうてん, いんしょくてん (shops serving food and drink), りょうりや, りょうりてん, りょうてい, はんてん (fleck, half the sky, inversion, mid-air, rolling over, short coat, speck, turning around, turning from side to side, type of short coat, workman's livery coat). (various references)

Kongo

nzo a ndila, fulu kia ndila. (various references)

Korean 

대중음식점. (various references)

Macedonian

restoran. (various references)

Manx

thie commee, thie bee (café, cafщ, chop house, cook shop), oastan (cafe). (various references)

Maori

wharekai. (various references)

Mohawk

tsi teyontska'honhkwa. (various references)

Norwegian

restaurant. (various references)

Occitan

restaurant. (various references)

Papiamen

restorant. (various references)

Pig Latin

estaurantray.(various references)

Polish

restauracja. (various references)

Portuguese

restaurante (eatery). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

restaurante. (various references)

Provencal

restaurant. (various references)

Romanian

restaurant (bar, drive in, eating house). (various references)

Russian 

ресторан (saloon, steak house). (various references)

Samoan

fale'aiga. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

restoran (cook-shop, diner, eatery, inn). (various references)

Sicilian

ristoranti. (various references)

Slovene

restavracijo, restavracije, restavracijah, gostilno. (various references)

Somali

makhaayadda. (various references)

Spanish

restaurante (eatery). (various references)

Swahili

mkahawa (cafe). (various references)

Swedish

restaurang. (various references)

Tagalog

restoran, restaurán. (various references)

Turkish

restoran (eating house). (various references)

Turkmen 

restoran (r). (various references)

Ukrainian

ресторан (cabaret, restaurateur). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiệm ăn, quán ăn (eating house). (various references)

Zulu

irestouranti, ilirestouranti. (various references)

restaurant, rotisserie. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "restaurant": restauranteur, restauranteurs, restaurants. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Restaurant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kesatuan, reatuarant, restarant, restaraunt, restaruant, restauant, restaur, restauraunt, restaureant, restaurent, Restauri, restavrant, resteruant, resteurant, restorant, restorat, restrauant, restraurant, restsurant, restuarant, resturant. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: arrestant.

-2 letters: narrates, saturant, saturate, taunters, tuateras.

-3 letters: attunes, entrust, errants, erratas, narrate, natters, natures, nutates, nutters, ranters, rattans, rattens, ratters, restart, returns, saunter, starter, stature, tantras, tartans, tartars, taunter, tautens, tetanus, truants, truster, tuatera, turners, turrets, unstate.

-4 letters: anears, ansate, antres, arenas, arrant, arrest, astern, astute, attars, attune, aurate, errant, errata, natter, nature.

+1 letter: restaurants.

+3 letters: renaturations, restauranteur.

+4 letters: oversaturating, oversaturation, restauranteurs, undersaturated.

+5 letters: autotransformer, nonbarbiturates, oversaturations, quarterfinalist, supernaturalist, supersaturating, supersaturation, triangularities.