The ten oldest restaurants in the world are Cheap Place in Beijing, China, ZumFranziskaner Restaurant in Stockholm, Sweden, Botan's Restaurant in Madrid, Spain, Francis Tavern in New York, USA. HonkeOwariya Restaurant in Kyoto, Japan, Silver Tower Gourmet Restaurant in Paris, France, ZurletztenInstanz Restaurant in Berlin, Germany, White Horse Tavern in Rhode Island, USA AlaPetiteChaise in Paris, France, and Stiftskeller St. Peter's Restaurant in Salzburg, Austria.

The Stiftskeller St. Peter's Restaurant in Salzburg, Austria, the oldest restaurant in the world, was built in 803 and has stood in the St. Peter's Monastery. It was first recorded by Albuin, a follower of Charlemagne and a monastic scholar. The restaurant has undergone numerous renovations and extensions over the centuries, but some of the dining rooms retain the baroque style of the time as well as the old tree-like chandeliers, and it has served countless royals, high-ranking officials and celebrities.

History of Restaurant Development

The origin and development of China's catering industry, China's ancient land is vast and sparsely populated. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, in order to facilitate the long journey of the officials and adults to transmit documents, there will be a stagecoach station set up to provide the officials and officials to recover from the labor of the journey, but also to provide lodging and meals, so that they will be able to continue the next day to another section of a long period of transmission work, in fact, this is the prototype of China's catering industry.

In fact, in the Qin Dynasty, after the establishment of monetary policy, civil society began to have large-scale trading phenomenon, the bazaar should be produced, the nature of the people to food, naturally, in the phenomenon of trading revealed undoubtedly, the nature of the transaction in the life of the pure mouth. The nature of the transaction is inevitable to barter or money barter, the so-called things, naturally refers to some of the daily necessities and food, since the food can be obtained from the transaction, meal trafficking in the process of brewing and birth, in specific terms, catering.