Restaurant Types
Restaurant types are based on the menu style, price, type of food as well as how the food is served. No matter what kinds of food the restaurant serves, the restaurant type normally fits into just a few categories. Although there are some additional ones out there (i.e. food trucks), this site focuses on the following:
Casual Dining
Abuelo’s
Lucille’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que
Hooters
family Dining
Cracker Barrel
Bill Miller Bar-B-Q
Village Inn
Fast Casual
The Old Spaghetti Factory
Blaze Pizza
Chipotle Mexican Grill
Fast Food
Raising Cane’s
Shake Shack
Burger King
Fine Dining
Fleming’s Steakhouse
Ruth’s Chris
On this site, you can choose any restaurant by their type, food type, or by the night kids eat free. You can also search for any restaurant by their name on the right side of the page More restaurants are being added each day so check back soon if you don’t see one.
Blaze Pizza
The idea for Blaze Pizza came to Elise Wetzel one day when she was hungry and in a rush. She stopped at a Blaze Pizza restaurant in Pasadena, CA and as she was watching her…
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The story of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen began in 1972 in the New Orleans suburb of Arabi, when Al Copeland opened Chicken on the Run, serving traditional southern-fried chicken. He had been working in his brother’s…
View PostChipotle Mexican Grill
Steve Ells was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1965 and graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, in 1990. He subsequently moved to San Francisco and got a job working…
View PostArby’s
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…
View PostAbuelo’s
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…
View PostLucille’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que
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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