The Restaurants Kinds And Characteristics
Broadly speaking, restaurants can be segmented into a number of categories:
1- Chain or independent (indy) and franchise restaurants. McDonald’s, Union Square Cafe, or KFC
2- Quick service (QSR), sandwich. Burger, chicken, and so on; convenience store, noodle, pizza
3- Fast casual. Panera Bread, Atlanta Bread Company, Au Bon Pain, and so on
4- Family. Bob Evans, Perkins, Friendly’s, Steak ‘n Shake, Waffle House
5- Casual. Applebee’s, Hard Rock Caf´e, Chili’s, TGI Friday’s
6- Fine dining. Charlie Trotter’s, Morton’s The Steakhouse, Flemming’s, The Palm, Four Seasons
7- Other. Steakhouses, seafood, ethnic, dinner houses, celebrity, and so on. Of course, some restaurants fall into more than one category. For example, an Italian restaurant could be casual and ethnic. Leading restaurant concepts in terms of sales have been tracked for years by the magazine Restaurants and
Institutions.