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Restaurant History

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Based on Merriam Webster (n.d.), a restaurant is a business place that sells meals or refreshments so that people can buy from it.
The history of the origin word of the restaurant according to the Alpha Dictionary is coming from the word “restoring”. It also represents the present participle of the word “restaurer” which means to restore. The world restaurant also was used as a noun which giving the meaning of medicinal purpose and used to be applied on the soups. The name started to be used when a group of traveler in France which was called as “traiteurs” refused to sell portions of meat and insist to buy it as a whole. So, in 1765, A. Boulanger, an intelligence man decided to offer lamb trotters in a white sauce as a soup since soup was …show more content…

According to Coman (2000) from The Telegraph article, the American academic stated that the first restaurateur which believed to be the Parisian chef was actually an imagination of French people. Rebecca Spang who was a teacher at University College, London has challenged the French historians to show the evidence of the existence of a Frenchman; A. Boulanger who was believed to be the first one who was inventing in this issue regarding the first restaurateur and the word restaurant. This happened because of Rebecca has tried to find out about this Frenchman, Boulanger but found nothing about him. Meanwhile, Boulanger also known as the first person who used the word “restaurant” by putting the sign above the front door stated “Boulanger debite des restaurant divins” which means Boulanger provides very good foods. “Restaurant” also indicated the meaning of a place where people can buy foods and given the choices of dishes to customers and a place where people will go when they are hungry at that …show more content…

However, one of the Boulanger supporters, Philip Hyman who has worked with Patrimonie Culinaire for 10 years stated that the actioned that was made by miss Spang was a bit rushing because he stated that The Reference 1872 to Boulanger in The Private Life of the French in Other Times was still not clear, but the food subject became a very serious topic to be discussed on in the last 20 years. Even a food history expert who has written about the life of Boulanger in the past also still feels doubt about it because there are many things that remain unexplained until

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