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A room where strangers pay you to not cook, clean, or decide.

means A business where you pay to be served a meal someone else cooked and will also clean up after.

from From French 'restaurant,' literally 'restoring,' from 'restaurer' (to restore). It first named a strengthening bouillon or broth sold in 18th-century Paris as a cure for exhaustion — the meat-and-broth 'restorative' itself was called a restaurant before the word jumped to mean the shop that sold it, then any place serving meals.

first menu
Boulanger's 1765 Paris broth shop started it
word drift
once meant medicinal soup, not dining
global count
over 15 million restaurants worldwide today
tipping origin
spread to US restaurants in the 1800s
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