• @Hafty@lemmy.world
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      Is it a place where you can exchange money for food while you sit down at a table? Semantics.

      • Executive Chimp
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        Yes, you’re right. All these words are equal. It’s a pizzaria. A caffeteria maybe. Some might call it a bistro. Or a cafe. Perhaps a coffee shop or a burger joint. Quibbling over distinctions here would be semantics.

        • @mmddmm@lemm.ee
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          Well, yes. If you shop around you are able to find the same kind of food on some place using any one of those names.

    • @A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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      It’s the same damn thing

      There’s only so many words in the English language for “a place you can get a meal at”, you wanna go over em all?

      And yes I’ve been to actual midcountry pubs, they’re bars with good dining space usually situated in a village so people can walk there. They often have playgrounds, fuckin, somehow.

      • @Whelks_chance@lemmy.world
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        They’re absolutely not. A pub primarily sells beer, salted peanuts, and if they’re feeling fancy, a bread roll with stuff in it. A restaurant sells meals with plates and cutlery and has one or two crap lagers available. A gastropub does food and beer but both are crap and are twice as expensive.

        If you’re in an actual real pub, have had a handful of pints, this food is perfect, and ideally costs less than half a pint.

        • @A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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          Blah blah blah blah

          At the end of the day it’s a BUSINESS with a KITCHEN, a staff, and a dining area. When Americans say “it’s a restaurant” that’s what we mean.

          I get the historical context. But you can’t define a pub in a business plan in any way that won’t leave me going “it’s a restaurant”. “It’s a neighborhood social gathering place for people to drink and eat and play!” Yeah I get it bro, it’s a bar.

          I know bar owners on both sides of the pond, you won’t fool me. In fact, i kinda hope you try. I was just in Nottingham for two weeks in November. Mfer you don’t go to the Midcountry IN WINTER unless you’re learning something.

          • Is a hot dog stand a restaurant?

            It’s a business with a kitchen, staff (1 person) and a dining area on occasion (foldable plastic chairs and tables).

            • @A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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              That seems like an argument the courts are hearing. How does the legal definition of “restaurant” require “dining space”? Ed: tou seem to have edited since my reply. I say yes, a food truck is a restaurant.

              My point is, when Americans colloquially say “restaurant” they mean “any dining establishment”. We can piss and fight over semantics but what yall got are bars across from schools.