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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