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
Raising Cane’s
Shake Shack
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.
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