restaurants

NOUN

business establishment serving food and drink

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bar cafeteria coffee shop diner dining room inn joint outlet saloon

STRONG

canteen chophouse dive drive-in eatery grill hideaway lunchroom pizzeria

WEAK

café doughtnut shop eating house eating place fast-food place greasy spoon hamburger stand hashery hotdog stand luncheonette night club soda fountain watering hole

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restaurants

Reservation apps are competing to sign up restaurants with the goal of locking in tables exclusively for their top users.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

And delivery companies have even joined the fray, with Uber Eats partnering with the granddaddy of reservation apps, OpenTable, and DoorDash buying SevenRooms, a reservation-management system geared toward higher-end restaurants, for $1.2 billion last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

“You need 85 pieces of technology and a guy like me,” said DeSaye, whose company has around 700 tables across 14 restaurants for booking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

OpenTable grew to thousands of participating restaurants by the mid 2000s, and introduced its first iPhone app in 2008.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Homes, stores, and restaurants lined the water’s edge, stacked one on top of the other, lit ceiling to floor in a rainbow of orb lights that blurred together through Pong's tiny basket window.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat