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Restaurant vs Catering - What's the difference?

restaurant | catering |

As nouns the difference between restaurant and catering

is that restaurant is an eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables while catering is {{cx|uncountable|UK|lang=en}} The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.

As a verb catering is

present participle of lang=en.

restaurant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * restaurateur

    See also

    * bar * cook, chef * drive-in * fast food * grill * menu, * slow food * waiter (m), waitress (f), waitron 1000 English basic words ----

    catering

    English

    (wikipedia catering)

    Noun

  • The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.
  • The business of providing such services for special occasions.
  • The act of one who caters (to something).
  • * 1864 , J. D. White, John Hugh McQuillen, George Jacob Ziegler, The Dental Cosmos
    • Professional jealousies are always confined to the more ignorant; and education alone will enable us to rise above our catchpenny caterings to the prejudices and jealousies of the uninformed.

    Verb

    (head)

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