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CellarDweller:
I believe that a restaurant is more 'upscale' type of experience.
A better type of food, perhaps more intricate or fancier.
A diner is more casual, and you can usually order "Americana" style of foods like fried chicken, meatloaf, burgers and fries, as well as breakfast items like french toast, eggs and pancakes.
Also most restaurants will have an open and close time, and may have set menus for breakfast, lunch or dinner. A diner is open (at least in NJ) 24 hours, and if you want breakfast food at 7PM, you can order that, the full menu is available at all times.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: brian on January 22, 2020, 12:23:07 am --- often you order and wait for your number to display (or now a gadget to buzz on your table ) then go and collect from the servery.
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That's so different from here that I don't even know what a servery is!
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on January 22, 2020, 12:50:16 am ---I believe that a restaurant is more 'upscale' type of experience.
A better type of food, perhaps more intricate or fancier.
A diner is more casual, and you can usually order "Americana" style of foods like fried chicken, meatloaf, burgers and fries, as well as breakfast items like french toast, eggs and pancakes.
Also most restaurants will have an open and close time, and may have set menus for breakfast, lunch or dinner. A diner is open (at least in NJ) 24 hours, and if you want breakfast food at 7PM, you can order that, the full menu is available at all times.
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My definition of diner is exactly that (I forgot about meat loaf!), except around here they do open and close and some don't serve breakfast all day. I don't know if you have Denny's there, but to me that's just like a diner, except that diners aren't typically chains. Oh OK, I did a quick check and apparently there are 8 Denny's in NJ.
I personally wouldn't call McDonald's a "fast food restaurant," but I believe technically they are called that (I'd just say "fast food place"). But otherwise I think I'd use "restaurant" for just about anything above that.
I suppose next you're going to tell me you don't call carbonated soft drinks "pop"! :laugh: :laugh:
brianr:
Servery" a counter, service hatch, or room from which meals are served.
In most houses built before or shortly after the war, kitchens had a servery to the outside which had a door on the inside which could be locked. The milkman left bottles of milk in there and the baker left bread. However in Taverns here the servery is much bigger, the door can be rolled up to provide a counter at times when meals are served. Servery can also be use for the food service area in canteens as in universityies. As we (thankfully) do not tip, it is quite common to go and collect one's meal when it is ready. Of course the meals are cheaper than in a full restaurant. I would not call MacDonalds a restaurant either but they do advertise themselves that way. I have become lactose intolerant so sadly no longer buy a shake with my big mac and fries. Instead I order a coffee and have been surprised to be given a number and told to go and sit at a table and my meal is brought to me.
CellarDweller:
Hiya BetterMost friends.
Happy Hump Day everyone!
I spent Tuesday and Wednesday in the whole jury duty selection process. Almost made it through the first day, but at 3:15 got called with a group of 50 people to be selected to be a jury. After an introduction to the process, we were told it was 4:00, and we could go home.
I went back today, sat around, at then at 12:30 I was called to be interviewed to sit on the jury, however, because I had to deal with a situation that was similar to the case, I was excused. By this time other uncalled jurors were going to lunch, so when I went to check back in to go into the jury pool, I was told that since it was my second day, I could go home.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 22, 2020, 09:31:33 am ---My definition of diner is exactly that (I forgot about meat loaf!), except around here they do open and close and some don't serve breakfast all day. I don't know if you have Denny's there, but to me that's just like a diner, except that diners aren't typically chains. Oh OK, I did a quick check and apparently there are 8 Denny's in NJ.
I personally wouldn't call McDonald's a "fast food restaurant," but I believe technically they are called that (I'd just say "fast food place"). But otherwise I think I'd use "restaurant" for just about anything above that.
I suppose next you're going to tell me you don't call carbonated soft drinks "pop"! :laugh: :laugh:
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Yes, we have the Denny's chain here in NJ, and I've been to it a few times. It's ok, but I usually don't go there.
I agree with you and Brian, that McDonald's is not a restaurant. I will usually just say 'fast food', or (like you) 'fast food place'. The same term will be applied to Burger King, Taco Bell, Wendy's, KFC, and places like that.
As for your "pop" expression, I have a story about that. A group of friends and I went on a road trip to Myrtle Beach, which is down South from NJ. We stopped at a diner to eat, and I had the following conversation with the waitress. The first sentence is mine.
"I'll have a soda"
"A what?"
"A soda."
"What's that?"
"You know, a Coke."
"Oh, you mean pop."
"No, I mean soda."
"No, you mean pop."
"I'll bet you $5.00 it's called 'soda'."
"Ok, I'll bet you $5.00 it's called 'pop'."
The waitress then goes into the kitchen and comes out holding a bottle of Coke, laughing out loud. On the bottom of the label, were the words "Soda Pop".
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