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 15 types :
American
TGI Fridays
Chili’s
Asian
Noodles & Company
Panda Express
Bakery
Au Bon Pain
Barbecue
Lucille’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que
Bill Miller Bar-B-Q
Chicken
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
Zaxby’s
Coffeehouses
Biggby Coffee
Dunkin’ Donuts
Desserts (and more)
Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt
Bruster’s Ice Cream
Family Style
Cracker Barrel
Perkins Restaurant & Bakery
Hamburgers
A&W All-American Food
Red Robin
Italian and Pizza
The Old Spaghetti Factory
Blaze Pizza
mexican
Chipotle Mexican Grill
Abuelo’s
Sandwiches
Arby’s
Schlotzsky’s
Seafood
Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen
Captain D’s
Steakhouse
Fleming’s Steakhouse
Ruth’s Chris
Wings
Hooters
Buffalo Wild Wings
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.
Perkins Restaurant & Bakery
Matthew Perkins was born in Manes, MO, November 23, 1911. He served in the Army during WW2 and in 1958 opened Perkins Pancake House in the Cincinnati suburb of Silverton, with his brother, Ivan. Their…
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Arby’s was founded in Boardman, Ohio on July 23, 1964, by brothers Forrest and Leroy Raffel, of New Castle, PA. Forrest “Fuzzy” Raffel was a graduate of Cornell University’s School of Hotel and Restaurant Administration…
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To understand the story of Abuelo’s, one of the more upscale Mexican restaurants in our country, you first need to go to back to China where the very young founder, James Young fled to Taiwan…
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Before we can talk about the barbecue at Lucille’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que and Hof’s Hut, we need to go back to a much simpler time in the 1930s where Dirk and Sjoukje (a Dutch immigrant) Hofman…
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Our first (and only?) love story… Most of us have had a bad first date. I remember a couple where I knew the chance of a relationship was over before knowing what I was going…
View PostSchlotzsky’s
Schlotzsky’s was started by Don and Dolores Dissman in 1971. They should be credited with doing one thing very well. Not many restaurants could pull off a menu with one sandwich but they found a…
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