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Grocer vs Restaurant - What's the difference?

grocer | restaurant |

As nouns the difference between grocer and restaurant

is that grocer is a person who sells groceries (foodstuffs and household items) retail from a grocery while restaurant is an eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables.

grocer

English

(wikipedia grocer)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who sells groceries (foodstuffs and household items) retail from a grocery

    • Derived terms

    * greengrocer * grocery

    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 ----