Talk:List of vegetarian restaurants/Archive 1

Fastfood chains (US, some worldwide)
Personal note: I really know myself, it's not healthy, but maybe people are more convinced: going Vegetarin, when they see that being a Vegetarian is not something abnormal and I can only be Vegetarian if I cook for myself or eating at wired restaurants, which are not reachable in my neighborhood. End-of personal note.

Is it possible to add US, or some are also worldwide chains like the following (of course) incomplete list, which also serve vegetarian/vegan foods? Or would it be better to create a 'fastfood' section? Thanks! --Never stop exploring (talk) 10:46, 1 May 2015 (UTC)


 * 5 & Diner
 * Applebee's
 * Baskin-Robbins
 * BJ's Restaurant & Brewery
 * Buffalo Wild Wings
 * Burger King
 * Carl's Jr.
 * Cheeburger Cheeburger
 * Chipotle Mexican Grill
 * Chili's
 * CiCi's Pizza
 * Claim Jumper
 * Cracker Barrel
 * Dairy Queen
 * Del Taco
 * Denny’s
 * El Pollo Loco
 * Flamers Grill
 * Freebirds World Burrito
 * Hardee's
 * Hard Rock Cafe
 * Hard Times Cafe
 * Houston’s Restaurant
 * IHOP
 * Iron Skillet
 * Jack in the Box
 * Jason’s Deli
 * John Harvard’s Brewery & Ale House
 * Johnny Rockets
 * Kelsey’s
 * Kona Grill
 * Little Caesars
 * Manhattan Bagel
 * Mellow Mushroom
 * Moe’s Southwest Grill
 * Noodles & Company
 * O’Naturals
 * Olive Garden
 * Panera Bread
 * P.F. Chang’s China Bistro
 * Papa John’s
 * Pizza Hut
 * PizzaRev
 * Pieology
 * Pollo Tropical
 * Pyramid Breweries restaurants
 * Qdoba Mexican Grill
 * Quiznos
 * Red Robin Gourmet Burgers
 * Roy Rogers
 * Ruby Tuesday
 * Souplantation & Sweet Tomatoes
 * Starbucks
 * Subway (restaurant)
 * Swensons Drive In
 * Taco Bell
 * TGI Fridays
 * The Cheesecake Factory
 * Tubby’s Grilled Submarines
 * Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt
 * Wendy’s
 * White Castle
 * World Wrapps
 * Yard House
 * zpizza

Like mentioned on this list: http://www.peta.org/living/food/chain-restaurants/


 * Oppose to adding this section. These chains are not vegetarian friendly. At best they are vegetarian tolerant. They are also not careful about keeping traces of non-vegetarian food from their labeled "vegetarian" menu items. That is, they don't really have any vegetarian menu items.  — Lentower (talk) 19:07, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose, this is not a list of restaurants with vegetarian food, it's a list of completely vegetarian restaurants. Ultimately, there are no meat only restaurants; they all have at least one vegetarian side dish. So this would devolve the article into "List of all restaurants worldwide"! Skyerise (talk) 19:44, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
 *  I like your comments; specially the one about 'vegetarian friendly'. So how about creating a separate list (maybe 'vegetarian friendly restaurants', which at the end of the day is a bigger list (not judging about quality/food safety/contamination) but still linked with this list? The minimum requirement to list a restaurant should be an external reference (not from the restaurant page itself) which says that it was possible to "eat something vegetarian". I know know that for real vegetarians or vegans, these restaurants are no option but it might be something for everyone in Semi-vegetarianism (not sure of it's relevance/notability. The guys at Veggie burger also started a list with Fast food restaurants, but AFAIK fastfood is not only about burgers :) Never stop exploring (talk) 02:59, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

As I learned today with the Veg-IQ-Test at HappyCow.net: "Vegetarian-friendly" means a restaurant menu that offers "something for vegetarians", where "something" does not mean quality or clean pure vegetarian food as if you cook yourself at home or in a specific vegetarian or vegan restaurant as listed here. So let's move this topic forward, should I create a Draft:List_of_vegetarian-friendly_restaurants or is there any other compromise with this topic? Thanks! --Never stop exploring (talk) 03:11, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Snack Restaurants
Hi Guys, I'm new here in Singapore and I came across Ya Kun Kaya Toast and Killiney Kopitiam, which is a restaurant for the famous Breakfast snack. Everything vegetarian (not vegan, they use eggs insinde kaya and they also offer soft-boiled eggs). Would that be suitable to add to the list of 'vegetarian restaurants'? --Never stop exploring (talk) 08:52, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

How to reach: Notability for a Vegetarian restaurant?
Hi Guys, I'm currently working on Draft:VeganBurg, submitted my draft some weeks ago. My submission was declined due to the following to things:
 * Notability
 * References

Do you have anything handy which could help me providing these details to the mentioned article? Any additional hints? Thank you very much! --Never stop exploring (talk) 07:07, 14 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Well, you've got unreliable sources. We can't use forums for sources. We can't use personal or other small blogs for sources (have to be produced by a professional editor or editorial staff). Directory and certification pages don't really show notability. And WP:GNG basically requires a minimum of two more-or-less mainstream sources, preferably non-local publications or at least a major newspaper review. Skyerise (talk) 16:45, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Chase's Daily, Belfast, Maine, USA
What happend to that place? --Never stop exploring (talk) 07:56, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Vegan Restaurant Chains to watch out
I've seen an article who listed the current state of vegan fastfood restaurants:

It says: "There were only a few dozen vegan restaurants in the U.S. 20 years ago. Today, there are more than 600. Many mainstream restaurants, including Chipotle, have vegan options on the menu, and supermarkets are offering more vegan items."

Incomplete List of Vegan Fastfood chain outlets (Format: Country (HQ): Name, Amount of Outlets, sorted by Country):
 * 🇩🇪: Veganz, 9 locations
 * 🇮🇹: Universo Vegano, 19
 * 🇹🇼: Loving Hut, 138
 * 🇺🇸: Café Gratitude, 7
 * 🇺🇸: Cinnaholic, 10
 * 🇺🇸: Clover Food Lab, 6
 * 🇺🇸: Native Foods Cafe, 26
 * 🇺🇸: Veggie Grill, 28

Original talk started here: Talk:List_of_vegetarian_restaurants/Archive_1

Any ideas/views how to separate those fastfood chains from the rest? The original talk also includes, vegetarian tolerant chains as a list. --huggi - never stop exploring (talk) 01:40, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Why does this page exist?
I don't understand the value of having this in an encyclopedia. The curation will be almost impossible (there must be thousands of vegetarian restaurants and restaurants constantly close and open), and so this article will always be uselessly incomplete. But more importantly, what question is this answering? Raywin42 (talk) 02:16, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Notable listings
The list has been culled to remove non-WP:N names. Per WP:BURDEN, there must be some supportable editing rationale provided to revert. – S. Rich (talk) 04:27, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Moosewood and Seward
I have removed two restaurants from the list, Moosewood Restaurant and Seward Community Cafe, because they are not vegetarian. Both restaurants' menus can be viewed on their websites and both serve meat. Neither one even claims to be vegetarian. I have been told that Moosewood was originally vegetarian and only started serving meat later, but I can't find a source for this claim. Here is a direct quote from Moosewood's website: "By using natural, unprocessed ingredients like organic whole grains, dried fruits... and wild-caught fish, Moosewood is proud of the quality and integrity of our food." (emphasis mine). On Seward Cafe's menu, there are several items that include the options of bacon or pork sausage. Cocaineninja (talk) 22:36, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Former vegan restaurants
How about a 'note' about vegan restaurants and vegan restaurant CHAINS of yore, and vegetarian restaurant CHAINS of yore? If these and other veg*an restaurant chains are still operating, some mention should (IMO) be made of them. If they are NOT still operating, some mention should (IMO) be made of them. Currently it is a list; perhaps some encyclopedic effort should be made to cultivate reasoned discourse about the dynamics in cultivating vegan and vegetarian eateries for general and targeted meal-seeking dining audiences. Those dynamics could include: That kind of would give a better 'word picture' that could become a launching platform for journalistic researching for a book (or a series of book chapters). MaynardClark (talk) 15:46, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Country Life Vegetarian Restaurants operated a number of vegan restaurants in the USA and Europe (under the leadership of Seventh Day Adventists).
 * ISKCON (the Hare Krishna people) influenced the opening and operating of a series of lacto-vegetarian restaurants.
 * Loving Hut operates curiously. Some famous ones operated in Texas.
 * early, very early 'experimental' restaurants (of yore?) - e.g. Cranks in London
 * heavy, hippie cuisine of earlier times
 * raw vegan restaurants (past of juicing bars and raw vegan 'natural hygiene' restaurants
 * times of macrobiotic and other specialized 'normativity' diets as motivations for entrepreneurship
 * vegetarian eateries pairing with health food stores
 * In my thinking of the phrasing that describes vegan restaurants that once existed but went out of business (while I worked in the restaurant industry before I attended graduate school, I learned that most American restaurants go out of business within their first year of operations. That a vegan restaurant in the USA fails to survive financially and competitively and goes out of business is not a negative of their 'vegan' characteristics but a description of what happens to most eateries in a competitive American landscape, (and elsewhere).  However, vegetarian restaurants that have survived by reinventing themselves as nonvegetarian restaurants ought not to appear in this article.  The challenge is to make more vegetarians and vegans (which would increase likely business for a vegetarian or vegan restaurant), not merely to compete against other restaurants (for currently available business) or to merely stay in business.  'Why do they want our money?' Howard Lyman once asked me in a personal conversation. MaynardClark (talk) 02:49, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * , a defunct restaurant or restaurant chain would need its own article in order to be included in this list, as this list is for restaurants/chains with articles. The fact a restaurant/chain is defunct wouldn't prevent its inclusion. It only needs to be notable enough for an article. Or you could possibly write an article about the history of vegan restaurants, again providing you could find sourcing.
 * Are there restaurants included in the list that are no longer vegetarian? If so, then yes, we should remove them. --valereee (talk) 11:51, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Are there restaurants included in the list that are no longer vegetarian? If so, then yes, we should remove them. --valereee (talk) 11:51, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Openings and other news of vegan restaurants

 * Mayim Bialik of Big Bang Theory now co-owns a vegan restaurant, Bodhi Bowl in Los Angeles MaynardClark (talk) 02:07, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

split into vegan/vegetarian?
Should this article be split in two? valereee (talk) 16:17, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Good question. I would not object; I would even support such an effort IF the vegetarian restaurant list INCLUDED the entire list of 100% all-vegan restaurants (which would also qualify as 100% all-vegetarian restaurants. Savvy? MaynardClark (talk) 19:09, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Best to keep the two topics in one place so...why not name the page List of vegetarian and vegan restaurants or List of vegan and vegetarian restaurants (which I'll create along with other names as redirects) to cover all bases? Randy Kryn (talk) 03:46, 12 August 2019 (UTC)