On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 01:45 +0200, Michał Brzozowski wrote: > Sometimes it's hard for me to tell whether a food venue should be > classified as a restaurant or a fast food. > From the description in the Wiki, the distinguishing features are: > * payment right away > * counter-only service (no waiters) > * disposable plates and utensils > * usually offers take-away > * very fast (I guess this means in most cases you wait at the counter > for your order to be fulfilled) > > Having listed that, a few problematic cases from my experience in Poland: > > GreenWay, BioWay and the likes > * vegetarian food > * no waiters, you order at the counter, wait at your table and take > your meal from the counter when it's ready > * non-disposable utensils
I'd lean toward calling this type of place (and tagging it as) fast food. > Various pizza venues, be it a part of bigger chain or one-off > * offers pizza, maybe other Italian dishes, salad, fries, > * no waiters, as above > * telephone delivery > * non-disposable utensils etc when you eat at the venue > Basically similar to eg. Domino's. For these pizza venues, I would tag them similar to how Domino's is tagged in the US/Canada. The Domino's nearest me is amenity=restaurant cuisine=pizza though in fairness the menu has expanded greatly beyond simply pizza. > These usually get tagged as fast_food. Should they be? Sometimes food > venues beg to be called a fast food (and someone tags them so) due to > quality, but then again, they're not so fast - so maybe there should > be amenity=shitty_food? :P Jokes aside, it's all subjective (hence, > fails at verifiability). As bad as the food may be somewhere, in all seriousness, tags should definitely not contain profanity. Even the G-rated amenity=crummy_food or similar wouldn't be helpful. You might try referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_restaurant which also mentions another classification, "fast casual" which is basically a step up from "fast food" but not quite as fancy as a (casual) full-service restaurant. Chipotle is mentioned as an example of fast casual and a randomly selected one in my area is simply tagged as amenity=fast_food cuisine=mexican. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
