Diner vs Restaurant - What's the difference?
diner | restaurant |
One who dines, an eater.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= * (Calvin Trillin) (1935-)
A dining car in a railroad train.
* Richard Gutman
A typically small restaurant, usually modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other, and often decorated in pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades.
An eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables.
* {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, 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.}}
As nouns the difference between diner and restaurant
is that diner is one who dines, an eater while restaurant is an eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables.diner
English
Noun
(wikipedia diner) (en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
- When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
- The diner is everybody's kitchen.
Synonyms
* (rail car) dining car * (sense) pubHyponyms
* (expert) deipnosophistrestaurant
English
Noun
(en noun)George Goodchild
