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The term cafeteria originates in Spanish where it refers to a coffee-shop, its English meaning as a self-service or small restaurant originates from New York in the 1880s and became popular in England (often abbreviated to cafe) since 1923.
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Covers is the unit of measurement of guests at dinner, or customers eating at a restaurant. Thus, ten customers at a restaurant are referred to as ten covers.
In grammar, a subordinate clause is a clause serving as an adjective, adverb, or noun in a main sentence because of its position or a preceding conjunction. That is a subordinate clause is a part of a sentence which adds more information to the sentence, but is in itself not a stand alone sentence. An example of a subordinate clause might be: 'Because he had not eaten for a week', the full complex sentence being 'Because he had not eaten for a week the boy ate his cabbage.' Or 'Fed up with waiting, the woman left the restaurant'. A clause can be made into a subordinate clause by adding a conjunction (when, if, because, whenever) at the start of a clause. Subordinate clauses at the start of a sentence make the sentence more interesting, and encourage the reader to read on to find out what happens and to build emotion: for example: 'Red with rage, his blood boiling, Grant felt the cold steel of the water pipe in his hand'.
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Tit-bits is a weekly gossip style light entertainment magazine. It was founded in 1881 by the then George Newnes (later Sir George Newnes) in Manchester - where its founder started a vegetarian restaurant to get the capital necessary to launch it. Serving up interesting items of information on all sorts of subjects, interspersed with humorous anecdotes, short stories and articles on popular subjects Tit-Bits was an instant success, it was the first paper to insure purchasers against railway accidents. Galloway Fraser succeeded Sir George Newnes as editor. In 1883 Tit-Bits transferred to London.
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Jamie Luner is an American actress. She was born in 1971 at Los Angeles, California. Although she appeared in a television commercial at the age of four, she was a chef in a French restaurant before becoming an actress, appearing in the 1988 television series 'Just The Ten Of Us'.
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Zero-rated supply is a supply within the scope of value-added tax but charged at a nil rate. Examples are food (excluding restaurant and take-away meals), books and journals, and children's clothes; all exports are also zero-rated. Unlike exempt supplies, zero-rated supplies count towards the turnover limit above which registration for VAT is compulsory, and any input tax relating to them may be reclaimed by the registered trader.
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Billy Madison is a comedy starring Adam Sandler, Darren McGavin, Bridgette Wilson and Bradley Whitford in a story about a spoilt American rich-kid presented with an ultimatum; retake his school exams or be disinherited from the family restaurant. Billy Madison was directed by Tamra Davis in 1995.
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Frankie and Johnny is a romance starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Al Pacino, Hector Elizondo and Nathan Lane in a story about a recently released prisoner who gets a job working as a waiter at an American restaurant, where he falls for one of the waitresses. Frankie and Johnny was directed by Garry Marshall in 1991.
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A la carte is a restaurant term indicating a menu or a section of a menu having the dishes listed separately and individually priced, rather than all one fixed price.
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Canard a la Presse is a French dish of duck, roasted for just twenty-five minutes, the breast of which is carved off - still very rare - and the carcass then chopped up and pressed, the juices and blood being added to reduced red wine and port which makes a sauce in which the duck breast is warmed before being served. The dish was invented around 1900 by a French restaurateur and is the speciality of the Tour d'Argent restaurant in Paris where it was invented.
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