单词 | restaurant chain |
释义 | > as lemmasrestaurant chain 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. < as lemmas |
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