Different Classifications of Restaurants
- ms3304dealer
- Oct 28, 2017
- 8 min read
Where do you usually go for lunch? How about your dinner at weekends? Will you go to the same restaurant on all the 365 days? People tend to go to different types of restaurants based on different occasions. For example, you will go to a Chinese teahouse with grandparents for breakfasts but you will go to a cafe or fast food shop instead if you are with your friends! There are various types of restaurants in the catering industry. Let’s learn more about it so that you will choose the right restaurant for the right occasion next time!
[Source: https://www.wix.com]
Independent Restaurants
Location: 25/F, Bartlock Centre, 3 Yiu Wa Street, Causeway Bay
It is a small Vegas -themed restaurant that mainly serves the western food. Although it is not affiliated with or supported by any national brands or large catering groups, it has gained a fabulous word-of-mouth in the market. The customers are impressed by the economic prices, high food quality and the friendly staff there as the owner of the restaurant always involves in the daily operations to greet and serve every customer. Sweets and snacks are placed on every table for customers to enjoy for free. The menu is also specially designed that customers can find some funny questions and quotes inside.
[Source: https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/r-little-vegas-%E9%8A%85%E9%91%BC%E7%81%A3-%E8%A5%BF%E5%BC%8F-all-day-breakfast-r186385]
Chain Restaurants
Location: Many
ICHIRAN is a Japanese ramen shop which was established in the 1990s by Mr Manabu Yoshitomi. He began his business in the Fukuoka City and further expanded the business overseas throughout the years. By 2017, there are ICHIRAN ramen restaurants all over the world, for instance, in Asian countries like Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and even outside Asia, like the US. As it is a chain restaurant, the management has paid extra efforts in maintaining the standards, thus no matter which branch you go to, the design of the shop, the menu, the food quality and even the atmosphere will basically just the same.
[Source: https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/r-ichiran-causeway-bay-japanese-ramen-r140523]
Fine Dining Restaurants
Location: 7/F, The Landmark Mandarin Oriental, 15 Queen's Road, Central
Amber is a hotel restaurant that is headed by the executive chef, Richard Ekkebus. It mainly serves high quality and high-end French cuisine. The interior of the restaurant is well-decorated with comfortable seats and elegant atmosphere. A set dinner with 9 to 10 courses costs around $3000 per person. Although the price may not be so economical and affordable, it is definitely worth it! Since the restaurant has a good selection of menu items and wine choices and they mainly use the freshest raw materials for food preparation, so the food quality is assured. Meanwhile, the servers also provide high and extensive level of services to guests. It worths a try if you have money!
[Source: https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/r-amber-central-french-meatless-menu-r14483]
Theme Restaurants
Location: Shop 2059, 2/F, YOHO MALL I, 9 Yuen Lung Street, Yuen Long
B.Duck Cafe is designed with the theme of a cartoon character, B.Duck. There are B. Ducks everywhere inside the restaurant, no matter on the wall, at the cashier or on the table and seats that you are sitting on! It aims to bring joy and happiness to customers with the colourful decorations and interior designs. All the food served are also presented in the shape of B. Duck or with a B. Duck logo attached to it. Kids will surely be happy to spend time there enjoying their meals, but the adults may be disappointed by the limited choices of its menu.
[Source: https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/r-b-duck-cafe-%E5%85%83%E6%9C%97-%E8%A5%BF%E5%BC%8F-r537576]
Celebrity Restaurants
Location: Shop G5 & UG 15, Tsim Sha Tsui Centre, 66 Mody Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
Gordon Ramsay, one of the most well-known chefs around the world! He is not only a skilfull chef that can cook well, but also the host of the reality show series, Masterchef. And now, he is even the owner of a London-themed restaurant located in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. The restaurant serves the British cuisine and is designed in a London style. As Gordon is a British celebrity chef, the style of the restaurant can absolutely reflect his background and represent him.
[Source: https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/r-london-house-gordon-ramsay-tsim-sha-tsui-british-r463750]
Steak House
Location: Shop 302, 3/F, Citic Tower, 1 Tim Mei Avenue, Central
It is a small-scale, medium-priced steakhouse in Hong Kong. Spending per head is around $200 - $400 for lunch. The restaurant mainly serves steak and is famous for its prime bone in ribeye steak. Apart from steak, it also offers other western dishes like pork chop, lamb chop, pasta and lobster salad. With this diverse menu, it has attracted many customers and received great reviews on the internet.
[Source: https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/r-mr-tomahawk-member-of-louis-steak-house-%E9%87%91%E9%90%98-%E8%A5%BF%E5%BC%8F-r467649]
Casual Dining Restaurants
Location: Many
Mad for Garlic is a fusion restaurant that combines Italian cuisine with Korean cooking style. The restaurant has a theme of garlic, so most of the dishes served, including beverages and desserts contain garlic. It is categorized as a casual dining restaurant as it is a relaxing place to dine in, customers can enjoy their meals with a reasonable price in a casual atmosphere. It also offers table services, thus customers can just sit there comfortably and be well served by their nice and friendly waiters.
[Source: https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/restaurants?what=Mad%20for%20Garlic]
Family Restaurants
Location: Many
Pokka Cafe is a chain restaurant with many branches located in different regions in Hong Kong. Since most of them are located in shopping malls which are highly accessible to customers. It is a coffee shop that offers western cuisine in Japanese style. The atmosphere is relaxing and the interior design is warm and cozy. Although the menu is simple, it provides various types of dishes, such as some special beverages and kids’ meals. This helps to position the cafe as a family-friendly restaurant.
[Source: https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/restaurants?what=Pokka%20Cafe]
Ethnic Restaurants Tulsi & Wine
Location: Many
Tulsi & Wine provides a Western and Indian mixing menu. There are several branches and it is quite special that each branch has some exclusive dishes. Customers can enjoy many famous local Indian dishes including the Indian bread, curry and tandoori. Food are served in Indian-style tableware. Other than the dishes, most of the staff are Indian and many Indian-style decorations can be found in the stores. Therefore, customer can fully immerse themselves in such a great environment.
[Source: https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/r-tulsi-wine-%E8%A5%BF%E7%92%B0-%E5%8D%B0%E5%BA%A6%E8%8F%9C-%E5%92%96%E5%96%B1-r188600]
Quick-Service/ Fast-Food Restaurants
Location: Many
IKEA Café are located within the IKEA stores to provide meal service for the customers during their shopping experiences. It is famous for its extremely low-priced food. Although the number of items in menu is quite limited, new or limited edition items are served from time to time to provide customers with new taste. The self-service is another signature of IKEA Café. During the whole dining process, customers have to serve themselves including placing the order, taking the food and utensils, filling up the drinks and returning the trays.
[Source: https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/r-ikea-cafe-kowloon-bay-western-r47358]
Hamburger
Location: Many
Triple O's is a hamburger store from Canada, using “Fresh and Fast” as its slogan. The company adopts the made to order strategy in all its store that all the burgers are tailor-made after customers placing the orders and this ensures the quality and freshness of the food. Moreover, the company uses a 100% beef patty, special-made Triple "O" sauce, fresh and crispy vegetables as well as a homestyle bun. Different from other hamburger store, Triple O's offers vegetarian burgers in order to satisfy special customers’ requirements. This is exactly the Triple O's unique positioning strategy over the other competitors.
[Source: https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/restaurants?what=Triple%20O%27s]
Pizza
Location: Many
PHD is one the local pizza chains in Hong Kong. It devotes to give customers the great taste by serving its signature hand tossed pizza which are made of special handmade dough. Besides, fried chicken, dip dip fries, snacks, pasta and rice are also available which provides customers with numerous choices. PHD has several branches with some provide eat-in service while the others only offer the take-away service. PHD also allows online order placing and provides meal delivery service so that customers may enjoy the food even staying at home.
[Source: https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/restaurants?what=PHD]
Chicken
Location: Many
Goobne Chicken is a chained restaurant from South Korea with over 1000 branches in South Korea and 6 in Hong Kong. It serves various kinds of chicken dishes with different cooking methods, including fried, roasted and baked. Customers must be surprised by the numerous flavours it offered! “H.O.T.” is the motto of Goobne Chicken, with “H”, “O”, “T” stand for healthy, original and trendy respectively. Goobne Chicken also lays much emphasis on freshness, high quality and customer satisfaction.
[Source: https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/restaurants?what=Goobne%20Chicken]
Sandwich
Location: Many
Grove Sandwiches started operations in 2002 and has currently expanded into a large brand with over 15 shops in universities, shopping malls and business buildings all over Hong Kong. As it aims to promote the culture of healthy eating and lifestyle, this sandwich restaurant promises to serve a variety of high quality and affordable light food, such as sandwiches, toasts and salads. Apart from the ordinary sandwiches that you can find in other restaurants, the shop also offers some baked ciabatta, Mexican Tortilla wrap and grilled panini. It would be a good choice if you are in a hurry but would like to have some healthy for lunch!
[Source: https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/restaurants?what=Grove%20Sandwiches]
Bakery Café
Location: Many
Crostini Bakery & Cafe is a large brand with approximately 20 shops around Hong Kong. It is a chain restaurant which aims to promote the European lifestyle to Hong Kongers, especially it would like to slow down the pace of living of Hong Kongers and emphasize the importance of relaxation to them. It serves various breads, including Croissants, Danishes and sandwiches. Apart from that, the shop also offers cakes, cookies and coffee to customers.
[Source: https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/restaurants?what=Crostini%20Bakery%20%26%20Cafe]
Hong Kong Style Restaurants
Location: Many
Tai Hing was first established in 1989 as a small-scaled Chinese roast fast food eatery. Throughout years, the restaurant transformed and expanded into one of the largest and most renowned Hong Kong-style chain restaurant in the city. Comparing with its direct competitors like Cafe de Coral, Fairwood and Maxim’s MX, Tai Hing specializes in Chinese barbecued meats which is the so-called “siu mei”. Besides, chilled milk tea, instant noodles with ham and egg as well as thick toast are also the famous items in the menu.
[Source: https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/restaurants?what=Tai%20Hing]
Local Restaurants
Location: Hang Tau Tsuen, Ping Shan, Yuen Long
It is a Hong Kong-style Cha Chaan Teng solely owned by the Tang’s family. Recently, they have opened 2 more new branches in Kwun Tong and 1 in Wan Chai. Although the restaurant is a sole proprietorship, with the owner’s ambition to grow and seek for excellence, is has become larger in scale and gained the market recognition. Some people will even drive to Yuen Long so as to try their well-known breakfast. The famous dishes include the pineapple bun with egg and tomato, sandwich with cheese and beef, and instant noodles in tomato soup. Every Hong Konger should go and try once!
Source: [https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/restaurants?what=Mrs%20Tang%20Caf%C3%A9%20%E8%8F%AF%E5%AB%82%E5%86%B0%E5%AE%A4]
Learning Reflection
This blog has reminded me that there are actually many restaurants in Hong Kong apart from the chain restaurants. When we do the research for each classification, we have found many results, but most of them are indeed the subsidiaries or branches of the large catering groups and chain restaurants. However, there are actually many small restaurants operated by some families or even work under a sole-proprietorship; for instance, Little Vegas, Tulsi & Wine, etc .. When these shop owners are trying their best to survive in such a difficult business environment, with high rental, high material costs and insufficient labour force in the market, we should also do whatever we can to support them. Theses small restaurants are a part of our lives and cultures. Thus, we should explore and visit these small shops to show our sincere support and appreciations to them!
References
[1] Little Vegas. Retrieved from: https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/r-little-vegas-%E9%8A%85%E9%91%BC%E7%81%A3-%E8%A5%BF%E5%BC%8F-all-day-breakfast-r186385
[2] ICHIRAN. Retrieved from: https://zh-cht.ichiran.com/index.php
[3] Amber. Retrieved from: http://www.amberhongkong.com/
[4] B.Duck Café. Retrieved from: https://www.facebook.com/B.DuckCafeHK/
[5] London House Gordon Ramsay. Retrieved from: https://www.gordonramsayrestaurants.com/london-house-hong-kong/
[6] Mr Tomahawk Member of Louis Steak House. Retrieved from: https://www.facebook.com/mrtomahawkhk/
[7] Mad for Garlic. Retrieved from: https://www.madforgarlic.com.sg/menu.htm
[8] Pokka Café. Retrieved from: http://www.pokkacafe.com/en/732-2/
[9] Tulsi & Wine. Retrieved from: https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/r-tulsi-wine-western-district-indian-curry-r188600
[10] IKEA Café. Retrieved from: http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_HK/lax_salmon/restaurant.html
[11] Triple O's. Retrieved from: http://www.tripleos.com.hk/
[12] PHD. Retrieved from: https://order.phd.hk/tc/order
[13] Goobne Chicken. Retrieved from: http://goobne.hk/china.do
[14] Grove Sandwiches. Retrieved from: https://www.grove.hk/
[15] Crostini Bakery & Café. Retrieved from: http://www.crostini.com.hk/
[16] Tai Hing. Retrieved from: https://www.taihingroast.com.hk/
[17] Mrs Tang Café 華嫂冰室. Retrieved from: https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/r-%E8%8F%AF%E5%AB%82%E5%86%B0%E5%AE%A4-%E7%81%A3%E4%BB%94-%E6%B8%AF%E5%BC%8F-%E4%B8%89%E6%96%87%E6%B2%BB-r544162
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