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METS EMPORTER [2 records]

Record 1 2006-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
  • Prepared Dishes (Cooking)
DEF

Food purchased at a restaurant but eaten elsewhere. The restaurant may or may not provide table service. In the United States, food ordered this way (especially in fast food) is ordered to go, and in the United Kingdom it is sometimes ordered to eat out, as opposed to eating in.

OBS

Take-out food is often fast food, but not always so. Whereas fast food carries the connotation of a standardized product from a globalized chain or franchise, take-away outlets are often small businesses serving traditional food, which can be of high quality.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Plats cuisinés
CONT

La tendance à consacrer une plus faible partie de notre revenu disponible aux aliments se poursuivra. Les achats d'aliments au détail seront toujours dominants, tandis que la croissance des dépenses d'alimentation ne sera que modeste. Le changement véritable se produira dans les repas préparés et les mets à emporter.

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-10-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Restaurants
DEF

... a restaurant ... that sells [prepared food packaged in disposable containers to be eaten away from the premises].

CONT

Customers are selecting food and putting it on their plates. A female customer is at a buffet holding her plate and selecting food. Platters of meat and cheese move down the line showing a variety of fruits vegetables and other foods in the buffet. Of platters of meat and cheese at a buffet then the camera pans to the left and goes down the line showing close-ups of a variety of fruits vegetables and other food at the buffet. Some plates are visible along the buffet. Customers standing at a coffee bakery type carry out restaurant.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Catégories de restaurants
DEF

Établissement de restauration vendant des plats ou des mets à emporter.

Spanish

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