According to the different ways of providing services to customers, restaurants can be divided into table service restaurants, cafeteria restaurants, counter service restaurants and room service restaurants.
(1) Dining room with table service
This kind of restaurant is the most common. When this kind of restaurant is open, after the guests are led to the table, there are service personnel to take orders, serve dishes, and then clean and set the table. The service of this restaurant is more formal, which can be divided into Chinese and western styles.
(2) cafeteria
This kind of restaurant mainly prepares food, drinks and tableware in advance, and customers choose according to their own tastes: they choose their own food and eat in the restaurant, and the service staff only provide guidance and auxiliary services during the meal. This service model is widely used in conferences, fast food restaurants and other places. At the same time, restaurants with this service model generally provide fixed dishes, with uniform consumption standards and low labor costs.
(3) Counter service restaurant
This kind of restaurant is similar to a bar, and usually includes three types: one is to put food on the conveyor belt, the conveyor belt rotates slowly, and the guests sit next to the counter. When the food they want to eat is brought to the front by the conveyor belt, they can take it down and eat it on the counter. The service staff is responsible for putting the food on the conveyor belt to settle the bill. The checkout of this service method is often based on the number of plates consumed by the guests. The other is that the guests sit at the guest counter and order according to the varieties supplied. The dishes are cooked face to face by the chef or waiter, and guests can enjoy the performances of the chef and waiter while eating, thus enjoying the beautiful scenery. Many barbecue shops use this service method. Another kind is that guests order food at the counter and take it away instead of eating it in the restaurant. This service method is generally used for snacks with special flavor.
(4) Room service restaurant
This kind of restaurant means that guests make reservations in advance by telephone, internet and other means. According to the menu ordered by the guests, the restaurant sends people to deliver the dishes to the places designated by the guests on time. Most restaurants now offer this service. Due to the intensification of market competition, almost all catering enterprises want to be unique in order to occupy a favorable position in the competition. Therefore, characteristic restaurants have almost become a common phenomenon.
So restaurants can be divided into the following categories according to different classification standards.
(1) local flavor restaurant
China's catering culture has a long history, forming different local flavors in different places, with a large number, broad mass base and universal cultural tendency. Such restaurants often specialize in some local dishes according to their own advantages, such as Sichuan cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Guangdong cuisine and Huaiyang cuisine.
(2) Ethnic restaurants
This kind of catering enterprises are catering enterprises that take the flavor dishes of a country or a nation as the leading products. For example, Thai food, Japanese food, Korean food, Vietnamese food and so on.
(3) Special raw material restaurant
This catering enterprise mainly deals in a major specialty or characteristic raw material, develops a series of dishes and highlights its own operating characteristics. For example, Beijing Quanjude Roast Duck and Sizhou Mapo Tofu.
(4) Family restaurants
This kind of catering enterprises mainly focus on home cooking or farm dishes, and it is the main body of catering enterprises mainly based on farmhouse music that has prevailed in China in recent years.
Because the business hours of restaurants are generally determined according to the dining time of the target market, restaurants are generally divided into two meals, three meals, four meals or even 24 hours according to the dining habits of people in different regions.
(1) restaurant
Mainly a restaurant or restaurant that provides two main meals: Chinese food and dinner. The main restaurant generally adopts a la carte menu, providing zero-point service, and the menu content is diverse.
(2) Breakfast room
Restaurants serving breakfast mainly refer to restaurants dealing in breakfast or morning tea. Because breakfast in China is generally simple, most of these restaurants are mobile or booth-style.