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>>1505397
>What is the history of restaurants/going somewhere to have food prepared for you?
Specialisation, destruction of hunter gatherer society

public restaurants started around the industrial revolution when city folk started to become far removed from a life of providing your own food. Originally they were touted as places that sold 'restoratifs', hence the name restaurant, restoratifs being food and drink purported to have medicinal or healthy qualities, when most city people were living on shitty bread and undoubtedly had terrible nutrition. Of course, human beings are human beings, and the most successful restaurants were the ones who provided the tastiest things. And actual medicine and public education advanced to the point that you couldn't build a successful business model on quackery any more, and restaurants had to rely on people just liking their food.

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I believe there were establishments similar to restaurants in the urban areas of the Roman Empire, since many of the lower- and middle-classes lived in many-storied apartments and did not particularly have space for kitchens, and as such, purchased cheap and prepared food from establishments.

>>1505397

I mainly come on here for religious discussion, but I know a couple of Midrashic stories dating from the 6th-10th centuries, usually set a bit earlier than that, that talk about people going out for food.

A couple things I found interesting in these stories were:

1) It seemed to be fairly common for the food server to eat with the patrons. There's literally discussions in the Gemara about how often he has to get up to serve other customers before he no longer counts as "eating with you" for purposes of whether or not you're having a communal meal (which has some religious importance)

2) You didn't seem to order the way you do in a modern restaurant. You'd go there, you'd sit down, and they'd serve you whatever they had. If you didn't want beef stew and that's what the house was making that evening? Too bad.

>what are taverns: the thread

>>1506135
There were restaurants in the Roman & Chinese empires.

They mostly catered to on-the-go people like Merchants and such.

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>>1506185
>I mainly come on here for religious discussion

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>>1506185
>I mainly come on here for religious discussion

Fuck off back to the Cripplechan

>>1506198
I'm so confused over this gif

>>1506233
Nah, the implications of women vomiting are always hot.

>>1506233
She's regurgitating the contents of her stomach out of her mouth.