Usachev V.A., Kuznetsova D.V.

Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade named after M. Tugan-Baranovsky

Restaurant business in America

Restaurant business occupies not an insignificant place in industry of tourism and brings enormous profits in such countries as the USA, Canada, countries of Europe and Russia. With development of tourism possibilities of restaurant business broaden in the Asian countries.

For every type of enterprises of feed on this sign of classification the corresponding assortment of dishes and drinks, applied forms of service, location.

The menu of restaurants pleases with the variety therefore here it is possible to choose for itself that will admire with the taste and refinement.

American cuisine is a unique mix of world cookery where modern taste and nature of a food is reflected. At the same time, it is nutritious, quickly and tasty, your time and money here is valuable.

The American restaurants are known around the world for the organization and reasonable approach to clients. For this reason, today such names as are familiar to us: McDonald's, Subway, Burger King.

The secret of such prompt growth is simple. It is the high speed of preparation of a dish, polite service, an easy situation, the low prices. In the USA the bulk of restaurants is restaurant networks of known brands. Each of which attracts the client in the various ways. It can be everyone different free of charge, an action, a discount and other. For example, the EVA restaurant in Los Angeles in the summer of 2012 offered the visitors a discount to 5% only that they agreed to switch off the mobile phones for the period of restaurant visit. It is sure that there are also other institutions in America which offer the same unusual actions.

Literally everywhere it is possible to find small restaurant, cafe, a snack bar or simply a tray in the USA with something food. Other decision - to use a delivery service of ready food for all tastes: pizza, a land, salads and soups, - anything. Call - will bring.

All variety of the American restaurants can be broken into some groups.

- Restaurants of high kitchen (High-scale restaurants) are the cloths, expensive ware, waiters, the prices of dishes from $20 and a dress code.

- Family restaurants (including restaurants of ethnic cuisine) - are more democratic as concerning the price, and requirements to clothes of visitors.

- Fast food restaurants - have the limited menu, all snack prepare on a place from semi-finished products, often dishes are simply warmed. Here will surely specify where you will eat - here at restaurant (For Here) or having taken food with yourself (To Go) if necessary to pack the order. It is possible to meet both separate, and large network institutions. Many American networks of Fast Food restaurants became for a long time international. Among them not only McDonald's, but also Subway, Wendy's, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), Subaru Pizza, Pizza Hut and others.

- Cafes, coffee houses, snack bars (Cafes, coffee shops, dinners) - offer a limited choice of dishes, drinks, baking. Some of them (for example, Starbucks) offer also coffee on carrying out.

- Cafeterias - here the choice of dishes is organized by the principle of self-service ("free flow") - you gather any dishes on a tray, then you pay everything on cash desk. Often institutions of this kind can be met on food courts of shopping centers.

- Cookeries (Delicatessen, Deli) - the small little shops offering snack prepared here, sandwiches, salads, baking, and also semi-finished products on carrying out. Are often equipped to several little tables, sitting (or standing) for which it is possible to have a bite quickly.

- Snack bars - is offered by the sandwiches, the packaged snack, chips and drinks.

- Bars, pubs - unpretentious snack, a choice of drinks, including alcoholic, music, translations of sports competitions on the TV installed in a hall.

Features of the American restaurants

- Big portions of food. If you order any hamburger, be sure that you will be sated with it. Unlike other countries where the size of an ordered dish happens different. Therefore at restaurants there are also children's portions which are ordered also by adults.

- You can take food with yourselves home. Here this everyday occurrence even in expensive institutions. If, you didn't eat up something, to you can pack the remains that you carried it home.

- At the drink order, you pay only once, thus you can ask to bring to you so many time, how many for you it is necessary.

- There are such restaurants of a type of "buffet" where you pay only for an entrance, and food can eat what want.

- It is possible to go to the American restaurants with children. And, for them there can be special entertainments, crossword puzzles.

- As a rule, the dish price already includes the cost of salad which, by the way, can be chosen from several types.

- Bright feature of the American restaurants it that here come only to eat. For a sit-round gathering there are special cafeterias.

Hospitality - one of fundamental concepts of a human civilization. Many people still have traditions well to receive the guest, to treat him with the best dishes, to provide a lodging for the night if it needs it.

In process of development of a human civilization rendering hospitable services to the people who have appeared for one reason or another out of door, turns into a profession for the increasing and bigger number of people. In the course of service of tourists restaurant business plays especially important role, getting a number of peculiar features that allows to consider this business of the compound industry of tourism. Restaurants - one of the few places on the earth where all our sense organs work, causing the general feeling of pleasure.