Talk:Types of restaurant

Original Research
This gets tagged on a lot of wiki pages and I think it really applies here. I think there needs to be alot more citations, considering how qualitative these descriptions could be and thats fairly subjective. 136.182.158.153 16:24, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

(1 undated, unsigned post removed due to violation of Talk_page_guidelines on May 5, 2007.)


 * One of the big problems with this topic in general as a wikipedia article is that there is little to no real hard data on which to base the article that is readily available outside foodservice newsletters and cooking school textbooks that usually don't have online forms which can be linked to and/or verified by the vast majority of wikipedians. There is no authoritative layman's treatise on the topic of restaurants, and while I have considered writing one from time to time this is certainly not the place as it would definitely be original research.  I wish anyone attempting to clean it up good luck.  71.244.138.33 (talk) 18:23, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

There are citeable sources, books can be cited using the template. These classifications can be found in normal sources too. I have seen them in the NYT. this is not OR. --Jeremy ( Blah blah... ) 21:17, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

just an impression
This entire article sounds like someone made it up. It really needs help. Can it be deleted? Can I, a non-admin, nominate for deletion? These are questions that will not be answered now, at 1:44am. Goodnight, all. Sorry for the decidedly non-constructive criticism.&#8201;—&#8201;gogobera (talk) 05:47, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * You can nominate for deletion - take a look at WP:PROD and WP:AfD. I think a merge with the restaurant article might be more in order though.  There seems to be a couple of paragraphs of useful information here that's been expanded into a very poor few screens worth.  A small summary on the segmentation of the restaurant market from a business and cultural perspective might be good there. -- SiobhanHansa 12:46, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I agree with the merge proposal. This article has significant and unnecessary duplication with the restaurant article. hajhouse 18:41, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

I disagree with the merge proposal. This article has significant and extensive linkage from other articles. I guess it was created to make the restaurant article a reasonable length - there is a section there that links to this article. So I guess there's some reasons for the existence of Types of restaurants. 12.226.24.113 (talk) 04:54, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

expensive restaurant
This does not give any description at all. and the links on it don't mention what it is. though the name does make it fairly obvious, that doesnt matter in an encyclopedia, it needs a better description. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.19.224.124 (talk) 18:45, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree a title maybe self-explanatory but it still must have a legitimate explanation.--DavidD4scnrt (talk) 04:18, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

US-centric
This article is very USA-centric. The opening section should be more clear that the changing usage of the word 'restaurant' is particular to the United States. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mattsea (talk • contribs) 15:54, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

'Ethnic' Restaurant
What does that even mean? What, for instance, is a nonethnic restaurant? All food comes from some place, some culture. Even bland, corporate simulacra of food (McDonald's, e.g.), are approximations of some sort of food from somewhere (U.S. food, in McDonald's's case) ... It's a bit like 'foreign languages': They're not foreign to native speakers! Marking some cuisine as 'ethnic' seems to reflect a parochial and dated worldview. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.10.125 (talk) 15:53, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

No fine dining?
Why doesn't this article have a section of fine-dining?Vice regent 20:14, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

someone edited it out - It's back in now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.25.101.107 (talk) 01:29, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks.Vice regent 01:46, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Multiple issues, Poll about Gastronomy in Singapore
removed my addition of the Gastronomy in Singapore template from this article without any comments. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Types_of_restaurant&type=revision&diff=680483977&oldid=680478236

Let's do a quick poll to KEEP/REMOVE this detail on this article?


 * KEEP I think because the article has already a list of restaurants as a template it's a good thing having an article about

the Gastronomy in Singapore. --huggi - never stop exploring (talk) 09:05, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
 * , Don't you think that you are going a bit overboard by adding the template for gastronomy in Singapore to all sorts of overview articles that, as in this case, don't even mention Singapore? - Takeaway (talk) 16:02, 11 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your comment. --huggi - never stop exploring (talk) 16:04, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

A Mess
This article needs serious attention, preferably from someone knowledgeable about the global restaurant business. For some reason, the "types of restaurants" section is inordinately focused on chain restaurants, ignoring the fact that the vast majority of the world's restaurants are not parts of a chain. This is even true of the U.S. once you get out of particularly bland stretches of suburbia and exurbia. And aren't "ethnic restaurants" almost invariably also "causal dining" places? Or are the latter restricted to WASPy food? The cultural biases of this article are showing. --104.153.228.206 (talk) 04:22, 21 April 2020 (UTC)