A Tavern and a restaurant are different from each other though both offer food to its customers. A tavern offers a set menu at a set price and is served only at a fixed time of the day. Whereas in a restaurant the customer chooses his own dishes from a set menu, at time of the day. In 1783 Beauvilliers opened his own restaurant. From 1789 there were so many chefs and other restaurant industry related personnel in the market for employment.

This was a golden period for the restaurant industry. Many chefs who had earlier fled France because of the Russian revolution and now settled in England, shifted their talents from preparing food for the nobility to providing the illusion of nobility for the bourgeoisie. In the year 1789, the number of restaurants increased to more than five hundred from a mere 100, in a matter of about 15 years.
Because of this revolution in restaurants number, dining pattern changed.

Even the boiler room of the kitchen did not remain unchanged. Count von Rumford invented the `modern kitchen range~, which became commercially available around the year 1800. Dishes involving instant cooking, such as pan-frying, dominated the menus in the restaurants. This revolutionized the eating ~out such that the roasts were side-lined, reducing the number of dishes on the menu.

A chronological growth of restaurants over the years is given below:

The First Restaurant that came to be is supposedly a soup vendor who opened his business in Paris in 1765.

The first Cafeteria opened in 1891. It was established by the YWCA of Kansas City, MO.

Drive-In Restaurants: The first such restaurant came into existence in 1936 in Glendale, California. The restaurant served food to the patrons in their vehicles. This was most popular in the early 1950s.

The Happy Meal concept was introduced by the Mac Donald~s chain of restaurants. This chain emphasized on standardized food products, which were produced under strict discipline.
Products like hamburgers, French fries and milk shakes.
First Happy Meal was served in 1777 McDonald's Happy Meals:
Ray Kroc was the pioneer of the fast-food industry with his worldwide McDonald's enterprise (1954). He revolutionized the American restaurant industry by imposing discipline on the production of hamburgers, French fries, and milk shakes. In 1977. The first McDonald~s ~Happy Meal~ was regionally tested in St. Louis and served in 1979

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