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Revolving restaurant
Revolving restaurant: rotating dining room on a turntable platform, first realized at Dortmund's Florianturm (1959), brought to the US by John Graham's La Ronde (1961); only the annular dining floor turns, about one rotation per hour.
Rodízio
Rodízio: Brazilian fixed-price restaurant service where dishes, especially grilled meats on skewers (espeto corrido), are brought table to table in rotation. Created in Brazil in the mid-1960s with disputed authorship; also names São Paulo's vehicle restriction system.
Shady Maple Smorgasbord
Shady Maple Smorgasbord is an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant in East Earl, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, serving Pennsylvania Dutch cooking on a 200-foot buffet line for up to 7,000 diners a day.
Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!
Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! is Morgan Spurlock's 2019 documentary sequel in which he opens his own Holy Chicken! fast-food restaurant to expose poultry-industry marketing and farmer debt; premiered TIFF 2017, released by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
Supper club
Supper club: a hosted, ticketed dining format between a restaurant and a dinner party. Covers the nightclub-era term, Lawrence Frank's 1920s Beverly Hills origin, the Wisconsin supper club tradition with brandy old fashioneds and relish trays, and the modern underground pop-up revival.
Tavern
Tavern: a historical drinking and eating establishment, from Latin taberna via Old French taverne; in England a wine-selling house distinct from alehouse and inn, in colonial America the main community gathering place, now largely a literary or licensing term.
Teppanyaki (鉄板焼き)
Teppanyaki (鉄板焼き) is Japanese grilling on a flat iron plate, from postwar okonomiyaki stalls to the Misono steakhouse style founded in Kobe in 1945, later spread abroad by Benihana in 1964 and often mislabeled "hibachi" in America.
Theme restaurant
Theme restaurant: a dining venue built around a distinctive theme in décor, menu, and entertainment; traced to Montmartre cafés, popularized in 1920s Los Angeles, named only since the 1970s.
Types of restaurant
Types of restaurant: classification of food-service establishments by service model (full service, fast casual, quick service), price, format (fine dining, café, food truck, ghost kitchen), and ownership, with US industry figures.
UNKO MUSEUM OKINAWA
UNKO MUSEUM OKINAWA (うんこミュージアム OKINAWA) is a poop-themed interactive museum opened September 19, 2025 on the 5th floor of AEON MALL Okinawa Rycom, the third permanent Unko Museum venue and Japan's southernmost, run by T museum and KAYAC.
Vegetarian restaurant
A vegetarian restaurant is a dining venue whose menu excludes meat and fish altogether, a format that grew from 19th-century food-reform movements and now includes vegan venues.