restaurantn.

Brit.

/ˈrɛst(ə)rɒnt/,

/ˈrɛst(ə)rɑːnt/,

/ˈrɛst(ə)rənt/,

/ˈrɛst(ə)rn̩t/,

/ˈrɛst(ə)rɒ̃/, U.S.

/ˈrɛst(ə)rənt/,

/ˈrɛstəˌrɑnt/,

/ˈrɛˌstrɑnt/

Forms:

α. 1800s restaurans (plural), 1800s– restaurant, 1800s– restorong (irregular), 1800s– restrong (irregular).

β. 1800s restaurat.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French restaurant.

Etymology: < French restaurant food, cordial, or medicine, which has the effect of restoring health or strength (1477 in Middle French; 1405 as restorant ), fortifying meat broth (1666), public premises where food (originally this fortifying meat broth) is served (1771), use as noun of the present participle of restaurer restore v.¹With the sense development in French compare:1988 Larousse Gastronomique 883/1 In about 1765, a Parisian ‘bouillon-seller’ named Boulanger wrote on his sign: ‘Boulanger sells restoratives fit for the gods’, with a motto in dog Latin: Venite ad me omnes qui stomacho laboretis, et ego restaurabo vos (Come unto me, all you whose stomachs are aching, and I will restore you). This was the first restaurant in the modern sense of the term. In forms restorong , restrong (and perhaps restaurans , plural) probably representing an attempt to imitate a French pronunciation. The β. forms, which are common in early use (especially in the United States), probably show the influence of restaurateur n. in either the meaning ‘restaurant’ or ‘restaurateur’ (compare restaurateur n. 1, 2; for similar influence in the opposite direction compare restaurateur n., restauranter n.); perhaps compare also German Restauration restauration n.² Compare French restaurat (1814 or earlier; rare, and sometimes criticized by contemporary commentators; now obsolete), which probably results from similar analogical influence. N.E.D. (1908) gives the pronunciation as (re·stǫ̆rănt) /ˈrɛstərənt/ and also the partly non-naturalized pronunciation (ręstoraṅ) /rɛstɔrɑ̃/. Pronunciation of the final syllable has varied greatly. 19th cent. dictionaries generally indicate an approximation to the French nasalized vowel by means of an English low-back vowel /ɑ/ or /ɔ/ (whether long or short) followed by the consonant /ŋ/. In the early 20th cent. in British use these are supplemented by versions with actual nasalization. In the U.S. such pronunciations were largely replaced during the 19th cent. by anglicizations with /ənt/ or /ɑnt/. Similar anglicizations, as N.E.D. records (but not the first edition of D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. (1917)), also became common in British pronunciation early in the 20th cent.; however, approximations to the French pronunciation remain widespread. There has always also been considerable variation between the presence or elision of the middle syllable.

1. An eating establishment at which meals are cooked and served to customers on the premises; a public eating house. Also: a similar establishment provided esp. by an employer for members of staff. Cf. cafeteria n.Restaurant meals are typically served by waiting staff; the term is also applied to fast-food and self-service restaurants.cafe-, rooftop, theatre restaurant, etc.: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant

eating-housec1440

feast house?c1475

victualling-house1541

cookshop1542

cookhouse1548

feasting house1563

treating-house1680

suttling-house1691

shop1695

chop shop1733

restaurateur1782

slap-bang shop1785

restorator1797

dinner house1803

restaurant1806

snack-house1820

grubbery1823

refreshment house1825

restauration1832

trattoria1832

slap-bang1836

ristorante1874

tavern-restaurant1880

foodery1892

eatery1901

taverna1914

chop-house1915

nosh1917

diner1924

noshery1952

ryotei1953

lokanta1954

Chinesery1956

relais routier1960

hotel1968

tratt1969

robata1975

fast foodery1979

Chinky1981

rodizio1981

taqueria1982

resto1988

paladar1994

1806 J. Pinkerton tr. Regulations Lit. Soc. Antwerp in Recoll. Paris 1802–5 II. xxx. 469 If a restaurant be established, it shall not be permitted to take eatables, or drink beer or wine in the reading-room, billiard-room, or gaming-room, but only in those destined for that use.

1815 Entertaining Mag. Aug. 431/1 A little farther on we see the Boulevard des Italiens, remarkable for the Chinese baths, and the numerous coffee-houses, an excellent restaurant, and one of the handsomest theatres in France.

1821 New Monthly Mag. 3 73/1 [France] The accommodations are excellent in every respect, a good restaurat being part of each establishment.

1821 N.-Y. Evening Post 25 June 3 (advt.) Jos. Collet has the honor to inform his friends and the public in general that he has opened a Restaurat, in one of the rooms formerly occupied by General Moreau, 119 Pearl street, (Hanover Square).

1826 P. G. Patmore Rejected Articles 250 The Haymarket contains half a dozen French houses;..which however seem to have been established, more with a view to remind them of what a French Restaurant is not, than what it is.

1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 147 At these restaurants they give you things with French names.

1864 Select Cases Supreme Court Alabama 1861–3 405 Tucker kept a restaurat in the town of Camden.

1885 M. Collins Prettiest Woman in Warsaw I. ii. 35 Nor will we sup at a public restaurant. It will be quietly, in a private room at the Grand Hotel.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 14/3 We drove straight to a little restaurant over in the tail of Greenwich Village, a place kept by a woman known as the French Madam.

1926 Daily Chron. 13 May 3/1 The London millions who were..just sitting in their offices or lunching in the restaurants, or walking about the streets.

1941 ‘R. West’ Black Lamb & Grey Falcon I. 144 A restaurant which though small was not a mere bistrot.

1967 N. Podhoretz Making It ii. i. 14 A home-cooked meal was assumed to be better than anything one could possibly get in a restaurant.

1990 ‘B. Vine’ Gallowglass viii. 97 He had booked a table in the most exclusive restaurant in the neighbourhood.

2007 T. Friend Third Domain iv. 99 The plan was to spend the night at a small resort about a third of the way to Yellowstone. The resort had its own thermal spring and a fine restaurant.

2. With modifying word denoting the kind of food served, esp. (as in Chinese restaurant, French restaurant) the national cuisine in which the establishment specializes.steak, tempura restaurant, etc.: see the first element.

ΚΠ

1821 Evening Post (N.Y.) 6 July 4 (advt.) French Restaurat.]

1839 Morning Chron. 29 Aug. 3/1 Moscow... A contractor has been permitted to erect..a French restaurant, the saloons and apartments of which are splendidly furnished.

1874 C. M. Davies Heterodox London 289 There was no vegetarian restaurant even in London, I believed, or I should have immediately adjourned to it.

1903 Smart Set 9 57/1 There would be a modest little dinner at a quiet French restaurant..and an orchestra-chair at the Metropolitan.

1914 T. S. Eliot Let. 30 Sept. (1988) I. 58 I wait till Tuesday because there is a possibility of dining at a Chinese restaurant Monday with Yeats,—and the Pounds.

1945 J. Kerouac in W. S. Burroughs & J. Kerouac And Hippos were boiled in their Tanks (2008) viii. 90 We..went into a Spanish restaurant on Eighth Avenue.

1963 K. Tynan Let. 4 Oct. (1994) 283 I took lunch alone at that Chinese restaurant off Leicester Square.

1979 Gourmet Sept. 105/1 There are said to be some fifty Thai restaurants spread over the Los Angeles area.

2004 Times (Nexis) 22 May (Mag. section) 77 A New York Italian restaurant meant red-chequered tablecloths, spaghetti and meatballs, and Dean Martin.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive, as restaurant bill, restaurant business, restaurant chain, restaurant food, restaurant scene, etc.

ΚΠ

1840 Monthly Chron. Jan. 532 Our restaurant bill was, if possible, on a more moderate scale than even the fare, being, in fact, under two shillings each person per day.

1889 Harper's Mag. July 188/2 In one corner of the restaurant waiting-room was a gilded iconostase.

1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker v. 68 My boots began to squelch and pipe along the restaurant floors.

1911 L. J. Vance Cynthia 109 [He went] into the restaurant business.

1926 Chain Store Age Apr. 25 (heading) The Making of a ‘Nippy’[:] How the 8,000 waitresses employed by J. Lyons & Co., an English restaurant chain, are selected and trained.

1942 C. Beaton Diary in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xii. 99 While we sat at a café or restaurant table Geoffrey..talked obsessionally of his life in the desert.

1967 Life 5 May 14/3 Life restaurant review. Paella in a priceless setting.

1986 Time (Electronic ed.) 28 Apr. A mixed bill of celebrities has decided that the coolest thing on the hot restaurant scene is to own your own.

1986 B. Fussell I hear Amer. Cooking Introd. p. xxviii Back in 1926, H. L. Mencken found American restaurant food ‘as rigidly standardized as the parts of a fliver’.

2000 C. Hanger World Food: Morocco 22 Restaurant service usually consists of an army of men dressed in traditional garb.

b. Designating a meal eaten in a restaurant.

restaurant dinner n.

ΚΠ

1838 I. A. Jewett Passages in Foreign Trav. 291 Neglecting the Laitière, the Patissier, the Confisseur..from each of whom is derived something, directly or indirectly contributive of a first rate restaurant dinner, we come at once to the Comestibles.

1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby iii. 69 A solitary restaurant dinner.

2000 Packet & Times (Orillia, Ont.) 14 Nov. 5/1 Swanborough traveled to Brechin from Toronto on Monday to join his family for a restaurant dinner.

restaurant lunch n.

ΚΠ

1870 G. M. Towle Amer. Soc. viii. 273 Those merchants or professional men..have a restaurant lunch in town in the middle of the day.

1974 ‘J. Ross’ Burning of Billy Toober ix. 91 Prosser..had had his restaurant lunch sent in on a linen-shrouded tray.

2008 Wichita (Kansas) Eagle (Nexis) 8 Sept. 8 We set out to show how four popular restaurant lunches could be made at home.

restaurant meal n.

ΚΠ

1871 N. Sheppard Shut up in Paris 152 It would be difficult to take a restaurant meal now in Paris, without being served with one of the abovenamed animals.

1937 N.Y. Herald Tribune 16 Jan. 12/4 In those years all restaurant meals were a la carte.

2005 Guardian 28 July ii. 6/1 You can't get through a restaurant meal without a waiter drizzling extra-virgin over your tricolore.

c. Designating the owner or manager of a restaurant.

restaurant keeper n.

ΚΠ

1851 Morning Chron. 23 Aug. 6/4 Magade, a restaurant keeper, Rue Centrale, at Lyons, said that..the accused Daumas went to his house.

1932 H. Simpson Boomerang vii. 141 The two young men..grinned up at him, and the first, the restaurant-keeper, answered: ‘His money is as good as another's.’

2008 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 14 Nov. c1 Restaurant keepers said finding enough kosher beef has been a challenge.

restaurant manager n.

ΚΠ

1859 Times 31 Mar. 2/2 (advt.) Restaurant manager required, with from £200 to £500. A corresponding amount will be invested in an undertaking commanding an extensive and lucrative business.

1879 Law Times 15 Feb. 288/1 Jones, Charles William, restaurant manager.

1942 Fortune Nov. 157/2 (advt.) Your Gas Company home economists will help the Nutrition Committee to enlist the support of local restaurant managers.

1996 J. Morgan Debrett's New Guide Etiquette & Mod. Manners 203 On entering the restaurant, you should first make yourself known to the restaurant manager.

restaurant proprietor n.

ΚΠ

1866 Dubuque (Iowa) Daily Herald 4 Nov. Silas Brown, the old restaurant proprietor has purchased the old saloon..with the intention of fitting it up as a restaurant.

1888 Trade Marks Jrnl. 20 June 817 Pimms. Poultry. London. Pimms & Co.,..Poultry, London; restaurant proprietors.

1938 Sun (Baltimore) 11 June 9/2 Worley Carrico, middle-aged restaurant proprietor.

1991 French Hist. Stud. 17 185 Brissot's father was a very prosperous..restaurant proprietor.

C2.

restaurant car n. chiefly British a dining car on a train.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > restaurant-car

restaurant car1870

wagon-restaurant1910

society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > dining car

dining car1838

refreshment car1851

restaurant car1870

dining carriage1879

dining coach1879

buffet-car1887

diner1889

luncheon-car1903

1870 E. P. Hingston Genial Showman 134/2 We would gladly give twenty dollars for a meal in an American restaurant car.

1913 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 220 That terrible restaurant-car dinner in the tunnel.

1967 ‘T. Wells’ What should you know of Dying? x. 118 He's an elevator man at the Winchenden Arms... He's on the restaurant car.

1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) i. 2 The train had no restaurant car.

restaurant critic n. a person who reviews restaurants, esp. professionally.

ΚΠ

1922 Hotel Monthly Jan. 49/1 (heading) Advice to restaurant critics.

1969 Guardian 5 Apr. 7/6 As a restaurant critic, Claiborne is severe but impartial—which is just as well, considering the potential destructive and constructive power wielded by the ‘New York Times's’ monopoly.

2004 M. Sheraton Eating my Words 215 Although I do not believe one has to know how to cook to be a reliable restaurant critic, the knowledge certainly helps a critic to describe food convincingly.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	restaurant
释义	restaurantn. Brit. /ˈrɛst(ə)rɒnt/, /ˈrɛst(ə)rɑːnt/, /ˈrɛst(ə)rənt/, /ˈrɛst(ə)rn̩t/, /ˈrɛst(ə)rɒ̃/, U.S. /ˈrɛst(ə)rənt/, /ˈrɛstəˌrɑnt/, /ˈrɛˌstrɑnt/ Forms: α. 1800s restaurans (plural), 1800s– restaurant, 1800s– restorong (irregular), 1800s– restrong (irregular). β. 1800s restaurat. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French restaurant. Etymology: < French restaurant food, cordial, or medicine, which has the effect of restoring health or strength (1477 in Middle French; 1405 as restorant ), fortifying meat broth (1666), public premises where food (originally this fortifying meat broth) is served (1771), use as noun of the present participle of restaurer restore v.¹With the sense development in French compare:1988 Larousse Gastronomique 883/1 In about 1765, a Parisian ‘bouillon-seller’ named Boulanger wrote on his sign: ‘Boulanger sells restoratives fit for the gods’, with a motto in dog Latin: Venite ad me omnes qui stomacho laboretis, et ego restaurabo vos (Come unto me, all you whose stomachs are aching, and I will restore you). This was the first restaurant in the modern sense of the term. In forms restorong , restrong (and perhaps restaurans , plural) probably representing an attempt to imitate a French pronunciation. The β. forms, which are common in early use (especially in the United States), probably show the influence of restaurateur n. in either the meaning ‘restaurant’ or ‘restaurateur’ (compare restaurateur n. 1, 2; for similar influence in the opposite direction compare restaurateur n., restauranter n.); perhaps compare also German Restauration restauration n.² Compare French restaurat (1814 or earlier; rare, and sometimes criticized by contemporary commentators; now obsolete), which probably results from similar analogical influence. N.E.D. (1908) gives the pronunciation as (re·stǫ̆rănt) /ˈrɛstərənt/ and also the partly non-naturalized pronunciation (ręstoraṅ) /rɛstɔrɑ̃/. Pronunciation of the final syllable has varied greatly. 19th cent. dictionaries generally indicate an approximation to the French nasalized vowel by means of an English low-back vowel /ɑ/ or /ɔ/ (whether long or short) followed by the consonant /ŋ/. In the early 20th cent. in British use these are supplemented by versions with actual nasalization. In the U.S. such pronunciations were largely replaced during the 19th cent. by anglicizations with /ənt/ or /ɑnt/. Similar anglicizations, as N.E.D. records (but not the first edition of D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. (1917)), also became common in British pronunciation early in the 20th cent.; however, approximations to the French pronunciation remain widespread. There has always also been considerable variation between the presence or elision of the middle syllable. 1. An eating establishment at which meals are cooked and served to customers on the premises; a public eating house. Also: a similar establishment provided esp. by an employer for members of staff. Cf. cafeteria n.Restaurant meals are typically served by waiting staff; the term is also applied to fast-food and self-service restaurants.cafe-, rooftop, theatre restaurant, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant eating-housec1440 feast house?c1475 victualling-house1541 cookshop1542 cookhouse1548 feasting house1563 treating-house1680 suttling-house1691 shop1695 chop shop1733 restaurateur1782 slap-bang shop1785 restorator1797 dinner house1803 restaurant1806 snack-house1820 grubbery1823 refreshment house1825 restauration1832 trattoria1832 slap-bang1836 ristorante1874 tavern-restaurant1880 foodery1892 eatery1901 taverna1914 chop-house1915 nosh1917 diner1924 noshery1952 ryotei1953 lokanta1954 Chinesery1956 relais routier1960 hotel1968 tratt1969 robata1975 fast foodery1979 Chinky1981 rodizio1981 taqueria1982 resto1988 paladar1994 1806 J. Pinkerton tr. Regulations Lit. Soc. Antwerp in Recoll. Paris 1802–5 II. xxx. 469 If a restaurant be established, it shall not be permitted to take eatables, or drink beer or wine in the reading-room, billiard-room, or gaming-room, but only in those destined for that use. 1815 Entertaining Mag. Aug. 431/1 A little farther on we see the Boulevard des Italiens, remarkable for the Chinese baths, and the numerous coffee-houses, an excellent restaurant, and one of the handsomest theatres in France. 1821 New Monthly Mag. 3 73/1 [France] The accommodations are excellent in every respect, a good restaurat being part of each establishment. 1821 N.-Y. Evening Post 25 June 3 (advt.) Jos. Collet has the honor to inform his friends and the public in general that he has opened a Restaurat, in one of the rooms formerly occupied by General Moreau, 119 Pearl street, (Hanover Square). 1826 P. G. Patmore Rejected Articles 250 The Haymarket contains half a dozen French houses;..which however seem to have been established, more with a view to remind them of what a French Restaurant is not, than what it is. 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 147 At these restaurants they give you things with French names. 1864 Select Cases Supreme Court Alabama 1861–3 405 Tucker kept a restaurat in the town of Camden. 1885 M. Collins Prettiest Woman in Warsaw I. ii. 35 Nor will we sup at a public restaurant. It will be quietly, in a private room at the Grand Hotel. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 14/3 We drove straight to a little restaurant over in the tail of Greenwich Village, a place kept by a woman known as the French Madam. 1926 Daily Chron. 13 May 3/1 The London millions who were..just sitting in their offices or lunching in the restaurants, or walking about the streets. 1941 ‘R. West’ Black Lamb & Grey Falcon I. 144 A restaurant which though small was not a mere bistrot. 1967 N. Podhoretz Making It ii. i. 14 A home-cooked meal was assumed to be better than anything one could possibly get in a restaurant. 1990 ‘B. Vine’ Gallowglass viii. 97 He had booked a table in the most exclusive restaurant in the neighbourhood. 2007 T. Friend Third Domain iv. 99 The plan was to spend the night at a small resort about a third of the way to Yellowstone. The resort had its own thermal spring and a fine restaurant. 2. With modifying word denoting the kind of food served, esp. (as in Chinese restaurant, French restaurant) the national cuisine in which the establishment specializes.steak, tempura restaurant, etc.: see the first element. ΚΠ 1821 Evening Post (N.Y.) 6 July 4 (advt.) French Restaurat.] 1839 Morning Chron. 29 Aug. 3/1 Moscow... A contractor has been permitted to erect..a French restaurant, the saloons and apartments of which are splendidly furnished. 1874 C. M. Davies Heterodox London 289 There was no vegetarian restaurant even in London, I believed, or I should have immediately adjourned to it. 1903 Smart Set 9 57/1 There would be a modest little dinner at a quiet French restaurant..and an orchestra-chair at the Metropolitan. 1914 T. S. Eliot Let. 30 Sept. (1988) I. 58 I wait till Tuesday because there is a possibility of dining at a Chinese restaurant Monday with Yeats,—and the Pounds. 1945 J. Kerouac in W. S. Burroughs & J. Kerouac And Hippos were boiled in their Tanks (2008) viii. 90 We..went into a Spanish restaurant on Eighth Avenue. 1963 K. Tynan Let. 4 Oct. (1994) 283 I took lunch alone at that Chinese restaurant off Leicester Square. 1979 Gourmet Sept. 105/1 There are said to be some fifty Thai restaurants spread over the Los Angeles area. 2004 Times (Nexis) 22 May (Mag. section) 77 A New York Italian restaurant meant red-chequered tablecloths, spaghetti and meatballs, and Dean Martin. Compounds C1. a. General attributive, as restaurant bill, restaurant business, restaurant chain, restaurant food, restaurant scene, etc. ΚΠ 1840 Monthly Chron. Jan. 532 Our restaurant bill was, if possible, on a more moderate scale than even the fare, being, in fact, under two shillings each person per day. 1889 Harper's Mag. July 188/2 In one corner of the restaurant waiting-room was a gilded iconostase. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker v. 68 My boots began to squelch and pipe along the restaurant floors. 1911 L. J. Vance Cynthia 109 [He went] into the restaurant business. 1926 Chain Store Age Apr. 25 (heading) The Making of a ‘Nippy’[:] How the 8,000 waitresses employed by J. Lyons & Co., an English restaurant chain, are selected and trained. 1942 C. Beaton Diary in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xii. 99 While we sat at a café or restaurant table Geoffrey..talked obsessionally of his life in the desert. 1967 Life 5 May 14/3 Life restaurant review. Paella in a priceless setting. 1986 Time (Electronic ed.) 28 Apr. A mixed bill of celebrities has decided that the coolest thing on the hot restaurant scene is to own your own. 1986 B. Fussell I hear Amer. Cooking Introd. p. xxviii Back in 1926, H. L. Mencken found American restaurant food ‘as rigidly standardized as the parts of a fliver’. 2000 C. Hanger World Food: Morocco 22 Restaurant service usually consists of an army of men dressed in traditional garb. b. Designating a meal eaten in a restaurant. restaurant dinner n. ΚΠ 1838 I. A. Jewett Passages in Foreign Trav. 291 Neglecting the Laitière, the Patissier, the Confisseur..from each of whom is derived something, directly or indirectly contributive of a first rate restaurant dinner, we come at once to the Comestibles. 1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby iii. 69 A solitary restaurant dinner. 2000 Packet & Times (Orillia, Ont.) 14 Nov. 5/1 Swanborough traveled to Brechin from Toronto on Monday to join his family for a restaurant dinner. restaurant lunch n. ΚΠ 1870 G. M. Towle Amer. Soc. viii. 273 Those merchants or professional men..have a restaurant lunch in town in the middle of the day. 1974 ‘J. Ross’ Burning of Billy Toober ix. 91 Prosser..had had his restaurant lunch sent in on a linen-shrouded tray. 2008 Wichita (Kansas) Eagle (Nexis) 8 Sept. 8 We set out to show how four popular restaurant lunches could be made at home. restaurant meal n. ΚΠ 1871 N. Sheppard Shut up in Paris 152 It would be difficult to take a restaurant meal now in Paris, without being served with one of the abovenamed animals. 1937 N.Y. Herald Tribune 16 Jan. 12/4 In those years all restaurant meals were a la carte. 2005 Guardian 28 July ii. 6/1 You can't get through a restaurant meal without a waiter drizzling extra-virgin over your tricolore. c. Designating the owner or manager of a restaurant. restaurant keeper n. ΚΠ 1851 Morning Chron. 23 Aug. 6/4 Magade, a restaurant keeper, Rue Centrale, at Lyons, said that..the accused Daumas went to his house. 1932 H. Simpson Boomerang vii. 141 The two young men..grinned up at him, and the first, the restaurant-keeper, answered: ‘His money is as good as another's.’ 2008 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 14 Nov. c1 Restaurant keepers said finding enough kosher beef has been a challenge. restaurant manager n. ΚΠ 1859 Times 31 Mar. 2/2 (advt.) Restaurant manager required, with from £200 to £500. A corresponding amount will be invested in an undertaking commanding an extensive and lucrative business. 1879 Law Times 15 Feb. 288/1 Jones, Charles William, restaurant manager. 1942 Fortune Nov. 157/2 (advt.) Your Gas Company home economists will help the Nutrition Committee to enlist the support of local restaurant managers. 1996 J. Morgan Debrett's New Guide Etiquette & Mod. Manners 203 On entering the restaurant, you should first make yourself known to the restaurant manager. restaurant proprietor n. ΚΠ 1866 Dubuque (Iowa) Daily Herald 4 Nov. Silas Brown, the old restaurant proprietor has purchased the old saloon..with the intention of fitting it up as a restaurant. 1888 Trade Marks Jrnl. 20 June 817 Pimms. Poultry. London. Pimms & Co.,..Poultry, London; restaurant proprietors. 1938 Sun (Baltimore) 11 June 9/2 Worley Carrico, middle-aged restaurant proprietor. 1991 French Hist. Stud. 17 185 Brissot's father was a very prosperous..restaurant proprietor. C2. restaurant car n. chiefly British a dining car on a train. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > restaurant-car restaurant car1870 wagon-restaurant1910 society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > dining car dining car1838 refreshment car1851 restaurant car1870 dining carriage1879 dining coach1879 buffet-car1887 diner1889 luncheon-car1903 1870 E. P. Hingston Genial Showman 134/2 We would gladly give twenty dollars for a meal in an American restaurant car. 1913 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 220 That terrible restaurant-car dinner in the tunnel. 1967 ‘T. Wells’ What should you know of Dying? x. 118 He's an elevator man at the Winchenden Arms... He's on the restaurant car. 1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) i. 2 The train had no restaurant car. restaurant critic n. a person who reviews restaurants, esp. professionally. ΚΠ 1922 Hotel Monthly Jan. 49/1 (heading) Advice to restaurant critics. 1969 Guardian 5 Apr. 7/6 As a restaurant critic, Claiborne is severe but impartial—which is just as well, considering the potential destructive and constructive power wielded by the ‘New York Times's’ monopoly. 2004 M. Sheraton Eating my Words 215 Although I do not believe one has to know how to cook to be a reliable restaurant critic, the knowledge certainly helps a critic to describe food convincingly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1806
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