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

Abuelo’s

Lucille’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que

Lucille’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que

Hooters

Hooters

family Dining

Cracker Barrel

Cracker Barrel

Bill Miller Bar-B-Q

Bill Miller Bar-B-Q

Village Inn

Village Inn

Fast Casual

The Old Spaghetti Factory

The Old Spaghetti Factory

Blaze Pizza

Blaze Pizza

Chipotle Mexican Grill

Chipotle Mexican Grill

Fast Food

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen

Arby’s

Arby’s

A&W All-American Food

A&W All-American Food

Fine Dining

Fleming’s Steakhouse

Fleming’s Steakhouse

Ruth’s Chris

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.

Freebirds World Burrito

Freebirds World Burrito

“Born in California. Raised in Texas” is their slogan. Mark Orfalea originally designed the restaurant around the roasted chicken concept similar to El Pollo Loco and wanted to deliver food to the UC Santa Barbara students.…

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Hooters

Hooters

Regardless of your thoughts on the chain, their story is at least unique. It almost begins as a joke or skit on Saturday Night Live. What happens when you have six businessmen in Florida who…

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Biggby Coffee

Biggby Coffee

The story of Biggby coffee is one of two separate friendships. If you read the company history page, they begin with the second relationship, but there’s a prequel. If you want to know how it…

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Fleming’s Steakhouse

Fleming’s Steakhouse

Paul Fleming has undoubtedly come a long way since growing up in Iberia, Louisana.  He attended Loyola University and his first professional experience in the dining industry began as a dishwasher at a local New…

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Noodles & Company

Noodles & Company

The story of Noodles & Company starts in the trendy Greenwich Village in New York City when a 33-year-old brand manager for Pepsi stopped in Mamie’s Asian Noodle Shop for a bite to eat. Arron Kennedy was…

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Bill Miller Bar-B-Q

Bill Miller Bar-B-Q

It is difficult to open a successful restaurant today, but it was undoubtedly as tricky or more in 1950 when Bill Miller took a $500 investment (loan) from his dad and opened his first business.…

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