Food Types
Restaurants can be broken down into not only multiple types of restaurants such as casual dining, fine dining etc, but also in the food types they prepare and serve. Although there are just a few different types of restaurants, there are endless foods they may focus on. This is true especially if you consider all the ethnic food choices out there. This site breaks all the food choices into 13 types –
- American
- Asian
- Bakery
- Barbecue
- Chicken
- Coffeehouse
- Desserts (and more)
- Family Style
- Hamburgers
- Italian and Pizza
- Mexican
- Sandwiches
- Seafood
There are of course so many more food types than that and hopefully, as our restaurant database grows so will our different food types. Keep checking back for any additional food groups you may be looking for.
Moe’s Southwest Grill
After graduating from the University of North Carolina, Martin Sprock was only in his late 20’s when he started the popular smoothie chain, Planet Smoothie in 1995. After five successful years of the smoothie business…
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If you don’t know the story of the Ruth behind Ruth’s Chris, you’re simply in for a treat. Ruth Fertel, born in Happy Jack Lousiana, was an amazing woman of strong will and some good…
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In the 1950’s, just outside Pittsburg, PA, the small town of Bridgewater had a diner called Jerry’s Curb Service where Bruce Reed worked. He probably wasn’t given a choice considering his parents owned it. It…
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When William Rosenberg opened his Open Kettle restaurant in Quincy, Massachusetts, he had no idea that having coffee and donuts on his menu would change the world. All restaurants have a few menu items that…
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Ebony and Ivory was the number one song, Chariots of Fire took the Acadamy Award, and if you were around, you were probably watching Cheers on TV. The year was 1982, and two friends had…
View PostPappadeaux Seafood Kitchen
When you step into a Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen restaurant, you are experiencing a higher end dining experience that originated in 1897 when H.D. Pappas immigrated to America from Greece. H.D. opened lots of restaurants in…
View PostAuntie Anne’s Pretzels
It would be hard for the majority of us to comprehend Anne Beiler’s childhood growing up in an Amish-Mennonite family. She took the values instilled in her, along with her 8th-grade education and created a pretzel, a…
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Husband and wife stories are always fun. Andrew is from Yangzhou Province in China, and his wife Peggy grew up in Hong Kong, but they met at Baker University in Kansas. Andrew first went into…
View PostMcAlister’s Deli
Don Newcomb grew up in the small town of Ridley, Mississippi in the 1950’s. As a boy, he worked at the only soda fountain the small town had. That experience impacted him significantly, and after…
View PostTGI Fridays
TGI Friday’s is unique in that it’s “story” is like maybe no other in major American restaurant chains. Alan Stillman, a successful New York salesman, wanted to create a way to meet women (that’s a…
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