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Cafe vs. Restaurant

Cafe and Restaurant Definitions

Cafe

A restaurant serving coffee and other beverages along with baked goods or light meals.

Restaurant

A business establishment where meals are served to the public.

Cafe

Alternative form of café

Restaurant

An eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter.
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Cafe

(South Africa) A convenience store, originally one that sold coffee and similar basic items.

Restaurant

An eating house.
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Cafe

A coffeehouse; a restaurant, especially a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served.

Restaurant

A building where people go to eat

Cafe

A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold

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