TYPES OF FOOD SERVICE OPERATIONS

Often Michelin-starred fine dining restaurants, offering a distinctive personality, cuisine, ambiance, beverages and services.

• Bistro

• International Destination Restaurant

• Themed Restaurant

Increasing specialization of operations into vegetarianism and/or health foods, to meet lifestyle needs as well as dietary requirement.

• Health Food and Vegetarian Restaurant

• Cafeteria

• Public Houses

Primarily self-service with customer choosing selection from a counter or counters in varying designs and layouts.

• Bistro

• Popular Catering and Fast- Food Outlets

• Cafeteria

Developed from table service teashops and cafés through to steakhouses, and now incorporating snack bars, kiosk diners, takeaways and cafeterias.

• Brasserie

• Themed Restaurants

• Popular Catering and Fast-Food Outlets

Licensed environment primarily for drinking alcoholic beverages.

• Public Houses

• International Restaurant

• Kiosk

Often a mixture of bar and brasserie-style operation, commonly wine themed, serving a variety of foods.

• Brasserie

• Wine Bars

• Public Houses

Often a smaller establishment, with check tablecloths, bentwood chairs, cluttered décor and friendly informal staff.

• Cafeteria

• Bistro

• Brasserie

This is generally a fairly large, styled room with a long bar, normally serving one plate items rather than formal meals.

• Coffee Shop

• Bistro

• Brasserie

Similar to brasserie-style operations, often themed.

• Coffee Shop

• First Class Restaurant

• Restaurant

Term used to cover a variety of operations. Price, level and type of service, décor, styles, cuisines and degree of choices varies enormously across the range of types of operations.

• Restaurant

• International Restaurant

• Bistro