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.

Bob Evans

Bob Evans

Bob Evans, the man, was unique as was the founding of the restaurant that bears his name. You see, he already had a successful restaurant, the Bob Evans Steak House in Gallipolis, Ohio which he opened…

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Steak ‘n Shake

Steak ‘n Shake

Gus Belt owned a Shell gas station in Normal, Il in the 1930’s and was looking for ways to increase revenue. He began offering customers chicken, coleslaw, and beer. When the local community started to…

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Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut

Pizza was becoming a trend in American culture in the 1950s, and two brothers from Kansas decided to get in on the action. Dan & Frank Carney chose to borrow $600 from their mom and…

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O’Charley’s

O’Charley’s

How many restaurants are started by a 20 year Marine veteran? I dare say not many. Charley Watkins served his country well. He was a pilot and retired as a Major in the USMC in…

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Buffalo Wild Wings

Buffalo Wild Wings

BW3, as so many of their fans know them, began when an 11-year-old boy from Kentucky moved in with a family in Cincinnati in 1959. The couple later adopted him, and thus he grew up…

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Culver’s

Culver’s

The restaurant business was in the genes of Craig Culver when he was born. His parents, George and Ruth, had owned three restaurants, one of which Craig turned into the first Culver’s in 1984 after…

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