If you ask me, all fast foods are restaurants, restaurant is just a broader term.
There's no way we can find a clear line that distinct fast food with slow food restaurants. What ever rule you find, there will be some example of a restaurant that fits both descriptions. There is probably a restaurant somewhere in the world where you buy food from a counter, but the food is expensive and very good. Also, there is a restaurant with waiters, that only serves hamburgers. Not to say bars and cafes can also be restaurants and fast foods. The best we can do is use other tags, like cuisine=*, diet=*, and maybe invent some new ones like waiters=yes/no, buffet=yes/no, conveyor_belt_sushi=yes, grill=yes/charcoal/flattop etc. Janko 2014-08-03 15:19 GMT+02:00 Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk>: > On Sat, 2014-08-02 at 21:29 -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > > 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. > > > I would tend to go for fast_food for dominos, they are primarily take > aways but may offer somewhere to sit but that does not make it a > restaurant. I would go for restaurant for most Pizza Huts. Although > Pizza Hut do offer take aways from their restaurants, they do have > waiter service. amenity=restaurant take_away=yes? Pizza Hut do also have > delivery locations where you can order a pizza for collection, these > locations I would go for fast_food. > > To add to the confusion, McDonalds do use the word restaurant on their > fast_food outlets when they are in no way restaurants. > > > > 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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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