Restaurants: market research reports

Restaurants are places of business that prepare and serve food, drinks, and desserts to patrons in exchange for money. There are many types of restaurants including formal, semi formal, casual, lunch spots, hotel restaurants, breakfast diners, pizza joints and take out establishments.

Many restaurants specialize in a type of food such as vegetarian, seafood or a certain ethnic theme such as Italian, Greek, or Indian.

Restaurants often serve alcohol but must be fully licensed. Some may offer beer and wine only while others allow you to bring your own beverages.

Usually, customers of a restaurant will sit at tables and have their orders taken by a waiter or waitress. In fine restaurants there will be a host or hostess to greet customers as they arrive and will also seat them. Other staff in a restaurant will also include chefs, sommeliers, bus boys and dishwashers.

Some of the most unusual restaurants in the world include Dinner in the Sky in Belguim. Here customers dine at a table that is suspended in the air. A restaurant in Texas offers a free meal if you can consume 4.5 lbs of steak, an 8 lb burrito or 5 lbs of pancakes in under an hour. In Bangkok you can dine at a restaurant and be served by robots and in South Africa you can choose to have a meal in a working prison staffed by inmates.

There are millions of restaurants to experience all over the world. Restaurant guides, critics, food magazines and foodie bloggers review and recommend restaurants.