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

Raising Cane’s

Raising Cane’s

Shake Shack

Shake Shack

Burger King

Burger King

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.

TGI Fridays

TGI Fridays

TGI Friday’s is unique in that it’s “story” is like maybe no other in major American restaurant chains. Alan Stillman, a successful New York salesman, wanted to create a way to meet women (that’s a…

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Red Robin

Red Robin

Most restaurants have a story in how they started. Those stories generally center around the restaurant or the founder. However, the most interesting part of Red Robin is the origin of its name. The history…

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Famous Dave’s

Famous Dave’s

Dave Anderson grew up in Chicago with love for BBQ instilled in him by his dad who was a Choctaw Indian and loved to smoke BBQ. It was that inspiration and passion that led Anderson…

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Chili’s

Chili’s

Larry Lavine loved burger joints growing up and always dreamed of having one, but it was a chili cook-off that really grabbed his attention. He took creativity in opening the very first location in a…

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Village Inn

Village Inn

The story of how, when, or where Village Inn began remained a mystery in my research for a long time until I discovered one article which answered almost all the questions about their beginning. The…

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White Castle

White Castle

  Walter Anderson changed American culture.  In some ways single-handedly. He is the father of the fast food craze that continues to dominate so many of our mainstream storefronts in the United States. You may…

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