Eating Out Reno

• Americana
• Bakery/Patisserie
• BBQ
• Beverage, Specialty Drink Shop
• Brewhouse
• Buffet
• Cafe
• Cake/Cupcakerie
• Chocolates & Confections
• Coffee House
• Concession Food & Beverage Stand
• Convenience Food
• Cookie Shop
• Diner
• Doughnut Shop
• Ethnic
• Fast Food
• Food Trucks & Food Trailers
• Gastropub
• Grill
• Ice Cream Shop
• Lounge
• Pizzeria
• Pub
• Sandwich Shop
• Seafood Grotto/Sushi Bar
• Steakhouse
• Virtual

Reno is a destination for domestic and global travelers.  Regardless of what type of traveler you are,  (business , pleasure or both) you need  lodging and dining services.
Reno has many hotels, motels, inns and lodges that provide some form  of dining services.
Commonly found are American style plated service.
American style plated service is considered casual and informal.
The dish is produced and plated in the kitchen.
The front of house staff (servers, bussers)  run the food from the kitchen to the diner.  Serving from the diner's right hand side.
In order to serve their clients a range of food service styles are implemented.

From tiny stands offering a variety of specialty dishes.
To "all you can eat" -  buffets and "Grand Dining" establishments.
Eateries come in a range of forms and experiences.  

Ethnic foods and a variety specialty foods & beverages can be found at the casual dining and bars that can be found in every part of Reno and the surrounding town areas.
Food trucks and small counter service  take away can be found all over Reno.

Reno is known as a celebration destination for people of all walks from near to far.  Tourist &  Travelers (both business and pleasure) gather in Reno/Sparks because their are proper accommodations and facilities for their needs.  Everyone that comes to Reno needs to eat.  That is why every type of food service operation exists in Reno.

A food service operation produces a food offering and/or dish and serves it to the public consumer.
All  food service operations have to operate out of a form of commercial kitchen.
Which means that the food is being handled and produced with equipment and in a facility approved by the local health department.
The following list are the Types of Food Service Operations that exist currently in Reno.

restaurant noun
res·​tau·​rant | \  ˈre-stə-ˌränt
Definition of hospitality
: a business establishment where meals or refreshments may be purchased

Americana Specialty Dishes and Foods
Food service operations that have a limited menu with specific type of dish and or food offering.  The kitchen is set-up for food production of the select food offerings.
eg.  Sinbad's Hot Dogs in Sparks.  Their menu has hot dogs as it's main food offerings.
Reno has a number of these food service operations providing a range of flavors and cuisines.

Chicken Tenders and Fries
Currently there are several Americana Specialty food service operations that have a focused limited menu offering an entree dish of a boneless chicken strip or tender served with french fries.
The establishments in Reno all have counter service with a dining room.  All have take away.

A variety of restaurants operate using counter service and a dining room.
Here is an overview of how counter service works.
The restaurant is set- up with a counter manned by staff.
The menu is usually prominently displayed above the counter highly visible.
The POS station  (ordering terminal and cash register) is behind the counter and is staffed by personnel.
Note:  some chain counter service restaurants have set-up kiosks with a POS (point of order system) for customers to use to submit and pay for their orders.  Completely self serve.
When placing your order with a staff member they will take your form of payment and provide you a receipt with your order ID number.
Common procedure will be your number will be called out when your order is ready.  You will then have to pickup your order at the counter.
Note: Some counter service operations give you a number to place on your table.  It identifies you with your order.  When your order is ready a staff member (called a runner or food runner) will deliver your order to your table.  In this case they have provided limited table service.  Such operations a small tip ($2 to $5) is proper for running your food and clearing your table after you finish.
If it is an establishment with a self serve beverage station you will be provided a cup by the staff that took your order.
If not the staff taking your order will provide you your beverage or it will be ready when the rest of your order is ready.
After completing your dining you can clear your table  or you can leave it for the staff to clear.  They have to clean and sanitize your table after you are done.  If you do not clear your table a small tip is considered proper etiquette.  $ 2 to $4 for a party of 2 to 4.

Bakery
- a kitchen set up to produce and distribute baked  goods  (like breads and cakes) and  pastries.
Pastry
-- a term for baked goods like Danish pastry or Cream Puffs .
Various unleavened doughs consisting of butter ( or other fat) flour and water.
Types of commonly used pastry:
Puff pastry  (French Choux Pastry)
Pate Bris`ee  (pie pastry)
P`ate Sucr`ee (sweet short pastry)
Patisserie   p`atisserie
pronounced puh-TIHS-uh-ree   pah-tees-REE
French word with three meanings:
Term covering a range of sweet baked goods such as cookies, cakes, cream puffs, eclairs.
The art and craft of making pastries.
A shop food service production kitchen where pastries are produced and served.

barbeque
- is a cookery method for meats utilizing a device designed to hold meats over a heat source.  Commonly called a grill.  A brazier fitted with a grill and some designs a spot to suspend meats.
Heat sources are charcoal briquettes, hard woods and modern day propane gas and electric element grills.
Barbecue foods are foods cooked using the barbecue cooking methods.  Part of that is to properly season the meat before the start of the barbecue process.  Then the meat is basted with a highly seasoned sauce or solution to maintain moisture and to instill deep high levels of distinct flavors.

Many cultures around the world have their own version of barbecue.  Heating meats and vegetables over a high heat source is a global BBQ cookery practice.
At the present Reno is home of two types of Ethnic BBQ, Hawaiian BBQ and Korean BBQ.

Korean dining culture have their own unique BBQ cooking style.  In South Korea BBQ restaurants have grills built into the dining table.
The restaurant staff bring out platters of uncooked meats and vegetables to the diners table.  The diners take what they want at the moment and place the food items on the table grill to cook.
Thin sliced strips of pork and beef are cooked at the table.  Seafood, a lime prawns and fish fillets are also provided to cook at the table.
This type of unique eating out BBQ experience can be enjoyed in Reno, Nevada.
Ijji  Korean restaurants in Reno offer all you can Eat cook at your table  barbecue feasts.
(The following from their website)
Korean Barbecue is prepared at the diner's table on built-in gas or charcoal grills. Some options include bulgogi, usually made from thinly sliced marinated beef sirloin or tenderloin, along with galbi, made from marinated beef short ribs. Along with an assortment of marinated and unmarinated meats.

Barbeque derived from the (North American native American) word barbacoa.
Method of cooking meats over heat source.  The original recorded methods utilize a rack to hold meats over a smoke and or heat source.  Cooking the meats for a long period of time.
American culture has applied the term BBQ or barbecue to cooking meats on a grill.
To have a barbecue is to have a gathering for the purpose of dining on foods cooked on a Grill.
Barbecue foods include meats (pork, chicken, beef and seafood) and vegetables.

A BBQ food service produces specific meats cooked barbecue style.  The meats are commonly cooked through the smoking Cookery process and or slow cooking meat for a long period of time.
Most common BBQ meats:
Brisket, Pork shoulder, beef ribs and pork ribs.  Chicken and wings.
Specific side dishes are expected.
Various beans, cornbread, corn, fries, pickles, and different types of salads.

Specialty drinks shops that sell bubble tea, smoothies, or fresh juices are becoming more popular and widespread. The beverage industry is growing, and coffee and tea aren't the only drinks in the spotlight anymore. Smoothie shops and bubble tea shops offer a menu of customizable drinks with many flavors, toppings, and add-ins to choose from. These businesses usually occupy a small storefront with no seating or sometimes a small seating space. Customers place their orders at the counter and drinks are prepared with specialty beverage equipment.

Beverages, Specialty Drinks
Americana, Asian and Mexican themed concoctions are operating in Reno, North Valleys and outer areas

Brewhaus
/ˈbruːhaʊs/ /ˈbruːhaʊs/ a factory where beer is made synonym brewery.

Brewhouse-brewhouse in American English
(ˈbruːˌhaus) nounWord forms: plural -houses (-ˌhauzɪz) a brewery. house]
This word is first recorded in the period 1325–75.

A Brewhouse is a facility that manufacturers beer beverages and serves the beers on- site.
Food dishes Pub style offerings are available at the Brewhouses in Reno.
A select menu of appetizers are often featured.

All you can Eat food service history and connection to Reno Nevada.
Widespread belief regarding whom and where All you can Eat commercial food service was invented.  Widely told story is about a Casino floor manager in the 1940s Las Vegas.  He launched a food service called "All you can  Eat Buffet" In 1946.
Reno in the 1930s had an establishment that was providing Lunch and Dinner service All you can Eat.  A Reno establishment called Carolina Pines had a one page menu with the following: Carolina Pines Restaurant Reno winter rates commencing  Dec. 3rd. 

The Carolina Pines serves it's meals American Plan All you can Eat
Luncheon: 11am  to  1pm
All you can Eat  .40¢
Children               .25¢
Dinner:  5pm  to  9:30 pm
All you can Eat    .65¢
Children              .40¢
Sundays and Holidays  .75¢
Children                        .50¢
Sundays  12  to  9:30pm
GOOD FOOD THAT'S ALL

Like the shrimp cocktail that everyone believes was invented in 1959 Las Vegas (it was on 1940 menus in multiple establishments in Reno).  All you can Eat was on 1930s Reno NV menus.  It was made popular a decade plus later in Las Vegas.  No one knows whom exactly and when exactly All you can Eat service had its first service.  It is known that All you can Eat food service is a widely known feature of Reno Dining and Eating Out.
Buffet origin stories
Buffet 12th century buffet, meaning bench or stool. Since the 19th century, the word buffet in English has referred to a meal served from a sideboard.  The Swedes have a traditional food service called smörgåsbord or "smorgasbord"
Pronounced smor·guhs·bord
Defined Merriam Webster dictionary
smorgasbord - luncheon or supper buffet offering a variety of foods and dishes (such as hors d'oeuvres, hot and cold meats, smoked and pickled fish, cheeses, salads, and relishes)
1939 during New York's World Fair.  The smorgasbord was introduced to the American public by the Swedish.
Widespread belief is that the smorgasbord was the inspiration for the current modern day 20th. century All you can Eat Buffet.

URGENT SAFETY ALERT
BUFFETS :
A properly maintained buffet is important for food safety reasons, things to watch for…
⦁    No new food added to old food in serving dishes or chafing dishes
⦁    Clean utensils for each dish provided, and replaced often
⦁    Ample supply of clean plates, do not reuse plates
⦁    No heating of food in a chafing dish or with heat laps
⦁    Any pans left uncovered and unattended

All You Can Eat Buffet is a popular dining feature of Reno.
A number of Casino Resorts in Reno feature a Buffet restaurant with an All you can eat service.
An added bonus of those buffets, a particular dish and or food item is featured for that days service.
eg.  Fridays is traditional seafood day (in the world of food, beverage and hospitality) so seafoods like crab, shrimp and fish dishes will be available.  Another day carvery meats ( prime rib, ham, pork) are available at a serving station.

Sushi Buffets that serve primarily sushi will offer an All You Can Eat service.
Some Reno Sushi buffets offer an All You Can Eat Sushi for Take Away.
Commonly offered All You Can Eat Take Out consists of a set number of sushi rolls, Nigiri and appetizer.

Chinese style, Indian style and Japanese style buffets can all be found in Reno.

Indian cuisine Lunch All you can Eat
Royal India Buffet
American cuisine Lunch All you can Eat
Toucan Charlie's Buffet & Grille at Atlantis Casino Resort Hotel
Grand Buffet at Grand Sierra Resort Hotel Casino
Chinese cuisine Lunch All you can Eat
King Buffet  Reno
Mexican cuisine Lunch All you can Eat
Toucan Charlie's Buffet Grille at Atlantis Casino Resort Hotel

Buffet Full and Limited Table Service
Buffets can be small offering a select number of dishes, beverages and food offerings.  With self serve seating and self serve beverage.
Specific dish buffets are found in Reno.
Ethnic Asian and Indian cuisine buffets as well as sushi all you can eat buffets are eating out features of Reno.
Buffets offering large variety of foods and dishes with  full table service can be found. 

Reno's grandest Buffet is at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, Toucan Charlie's Buffet & Grill.  American food offerings & dishes and popular ethnic dishes are available.
Mexican feast traditional Mexican flavors and ingredients are available at the make your own taco buffet.  Sides of rice and beans with hard and soft tortillas and dishes like chili Verde and Colorado.  All available all you can eat.
Asian dish staples like egg rolls, fried rice and chow mien all available all you can eat.
Hot and Sour soup and egg flower soup with pork buns flow freely all you can eat.
A pho station provides made to your order pho style soup.
Featured Foods
The Buffet at Atlantis will feature food offerings for dinner.  One a select evening seafood will be the featured food offerings with all you can eat crab.  Often a choice of two types of crab are available.
On another night a carving station will be set up offering prime rib sliced to order.  A roasted pork and other select meats are available.
Dessert many ways
The amount of desserts offerings required multiple trips to sample a fraction of the available dishes.
Simple cotton candy portions are next to the gelato station.  Baked goods like doughnuts and dessert dishes are available in a variety and range of flavors.
Beverage service
All your drink beverage service is part of the Buffet experience.  A diner can order champagne and a mimosa to start.  Followed by a soft drink and it a juice.  Coffee and tea can close your buffet experience.

Cafe
Light meals, food offerings, select beverages and drinks.
pronounced ka-fay
French word for coffee

A Cafe is a small dining area (tables and seating) that serves specialty beverages like coffee and teas.  The food offerings usually are select dishes, foods and baked goods.

Cupcake -  A small  individual cake baked in a cup shaped form pan.  Each cupcake is topped with frosting or icing, candies, sprinkles, fruits and whip creams are also common garnishes for the cupcake.
A cupcake or muffin pan consists of a metal pan with cup shaped forms.  Most pans have 12 cup cake forms to make a dozen at a time.  Paper or foil cups are placed inside each cup form to act as a lining and container for the batter.  The foil or paper acts as a wrapper and serves as a holding area.  The foil or paper cup is discarded before eating the stump.
Cupcake History
The cupcake is an American invention.
1796 cookbook "American Cookery" there is a recipe for a cake baked in a cup.
1896 Fannie Farmer Boston Cooking School cookbook list a recipe for Cup Cakes
2/3 cup  of butter  2 cups of sugar
4 eggs     1 cup of milk   3 3/4 cups of flour
4 teaspoons of baking powder
3/4 teaspoon of mace.
Cream butter and sugar in a bowl.  Add eggs n milk.  Then flour sifted and mixed with baking powder and mace.  Bake in individual tins.  Cover with chocolate frosting.
1919, Hostess manufactured  the first commercial cupcake.  
2000  A cupcake from Magnolia bakery New York is featured in an episode of the HBO series Sex and the City.
This is considered the catalyst for the 21st. Century cupcake craze.
In the following years a number of cupcakeries started popping up in East Coast City locations.
2002
Cupcake dedicated bakeries started appearing in Southern California.
2008 Sift cupcake bakery starts baking in the northern California wine country.
2009 Reno Nevada
Batch Cupcakery opens in Reno

- a dish or delicacy made with sweet ingredients.

A confection is a food is a food dish that has sugar as one of its primary ingredients.
Confection something that is confected put together from several different ingredients.
Confectionery- the basic ingredient for all confectionery is sugar.

CoffeeHouse
Menu primarily coffee/tea beverages serving food items, small dishes and snacks.

Reno is home for independent and chain coffee house operations.
CoffeeHouses in Reno will serve the standard range of coffees.
Food offerings in various forms are available at coffee houses.
Since most coffee beverage food service operations lack kitchens, the foods offered were probably not made on site.
Commonly the food items are some form of baked and or fried foods. Pre-made and packages ready to eat.

Concession Food & Beverage Stands
Hot dogs, festive ethnic themed snack's and beverages.

Sometimes forgotten on the list of restaurant types, concession stands and snack bars are viable foodservice businesses.  A concession stand booth usually occupies a very small space with just enough room for a service counter, some light equipment, and occasionally a small kitchen area.  Some concessions take the form of mobile carts or kiosks that can be operated by one person who serves customers and prepares orders.  You'll find concession stands inside ballparks, theaters, and amusement parks. Boardwalks, festivals, and outdoor events are also prime locations for selling concessions.

Reno is the home for a number of special events that will have "concession stands".
Specifically events in Reno are held at various locations throughout the downtown areas.
Common practice is to block off streets to form a designated area for the event.
Parking lots are also used for large scale events where concession stands with foods will be set up.
The food service operations are in the form of concessions stands.
A concession stand is the site of a food service operation that produces and distributes  a specific dish or type of food offering.  eg.  At the Roma festival held in downtown Reno a number of concessions stands are set up to distribute specific food offerings.  One stand would be set up to produce and serve pasta.  The stand next door did pizza by the slice.  The stand next door produces dessert sweet dishes.
Concession stands are found in Reno's Ballpark downtown.  Stands for peanuts and popcorn and hot dogs are all set up for the Ballparks customers.

con·ven·ience food  noun
plural noun: convenience foods
a food, typically a dish or a complete meal, that has been pre-prepared commercially (in a facility or on site) and requires little to no cooking and/or preparation by the consumer.

Convenience foods come in a range of forms and a global choice of flavors & variety of dishes.
The dishes and meals can be completely prepared and require cooking.  As well as coming already fully cooked.  Which would require reheating.
Also convenience foods dishes that are packaged and requiring the addition of another food item like a meat and/or cooking ingredients.  Like water or canned food item eg. canned tomatoes are an added ingredient to a convenience food rice dish to make Spanish Rice.
Packaged dishes like hamburger and tuna helper require a meat hamburger or tuna and water and cooking to make the dish.
Convenience Foods Sources
Grocery Stores, Markets and Convenience Stores is where convenience foods, dishes and meals can be acquired.
Grocery Stores (like Raley's, Safeway, WinCo. and the like) have selections of pre-packaged dishes and meals that are either fully cooked and or require final cooking.
Also in such stores there are often a food service operation in house that produces and serves a select type of food like Asian Chinese cuisine dishes.  eg.  Ph`o, Chow Mein, Fried Rice, egg rolls, soups and combination plates of an entree and sides.
Commonly found at Grocery stores are some form of Delicatessen.  Offering a selection of salads, variety of ready made dishes and sandwiches.
Convenience Foods Stores
Stores and Markets that are commonly smaller than grocery and department stores.
A small inventory of pre-packaged foods and snacks (shelf stable foods) beverages, frozen foods and pre-made food dishes and offerings.

Cookie(s)
Small finger foods sized flour based sweet cake that can be soft to firm to crispy.
Cookie the word derives from the Dutch word
Koekje.  Translates as "little cake".
Historical records reference a reference to a cookie style cake that dates back to 7th. Century Persia.
(Persian culture was one of the first civilizations to cultivate sugar.)

6 are commonly recognized
The types can range in various degrees of firmness and  crispiness to soft chewy to fluffy cake like.
Drop cookie(s)
Named so because of the process of dropping a ball of dough into a cookie sheet pan ( a flat sheet with little to no vertical wall.
The famous and most popular (according to Americans) cookie the chocolate chip cookie is a drop cookie.
Bar cookie(s)
The cookie dough is spread onto a sheet pan with a sidewall.  The cookie bakes as one large sheet of cookie.  The sheet is cut into bar shapes.
Mold form cookies
A mold design cookie cutter is used to cut and form the individual cookie.
This involves rolling the cookie dough into a sheet.  Then using the cookie cutter to cut out the cookies.
Press cookies are made using a device that extrudes the cookie dough through a form to shape the dough.  A pastry bag with a tip works.   A device called a cookie press resembles a caulking gun.  A plunger compress and pushes the dough out in whatever shape the tip creates.
Refrigerator cookie(s)
A log of cookie batter is made, wrapped and refrigerated until dough log is firm.
The cookies are cut from the log.

Cookies regularly are reported as one of America's favorite foods and popular dessert.
A vast range and variety of cookies are available at food markets, convenience stores and grocery stores.   As well as large chain grocery stores seem to have in-house bakeries that produce a line of cookie products.  Especially or ornate heavily frosted cookies.  Every holiday compels fancy cookies holiday themed.

Black Bear Diner
Denny's
Peg's Glorified Ham N Eggs
Heidi's Family Restaurant - Carson City

Diner Casual Table Service
An American term to describe a food service establishment that produces and serves American cuisine.  At an affordable and/or value price.
In the form of daily Specials.
Dishes that can be produced in a quick timely manner and served fresh to the table is the way the American Diner operates.
Diners are traditionally opened for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
There are traditional American dishes for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner on the Diner menu.
Diners in Reno and surrounding areas
Places like chain restaurants fill this category with a number of establishments in Reno.

1700s  United States of America  Dutch settlers and immigrants made an oil cake.which was the forerunner of the modern day doughnut.
1803 edition of "The Frugal Housewife" included dough nuts as an American recipe.
1847 an American named Hanson Gregory claimed to have invented the ring shape doughnut with a hole.  The story goes he removed a  portion of  dough from the center before frying.  This ensured that the center of the doughnut would not be raw.  Smithsonian magazine states that the hole was filled with fruits and nuts.
1869 Fannie Farmer cookbook - Recipes for cake, raised and crullers are listed.
1941 Reno, Nevada
Henric's  Doughnuts Shop Formal Opening Special
Hand Made Cake Doughnuts 16¢ Doz
1990s Jelly Donut (formerly Winchell's) opens in Reno, NV
2009 Doughboys Donuts opens in Reno
2015 Dunkin' Donuts open in Reno, NV
2018 Sprinkles Donuts opens in Reno, NV

Doughnuts are small pastries made from leavened dough.    There are two main types of doughnuts.
Raised (dough has yeast and must be proofed before cutting and forming.)
Dough for raised doughnuts is rolled out and  each doughnut is cut with a special design round cutter that cuts the round shape and the hole out of the center.  The rounds created from cutting the holes  are fried seasoned glazed and rolled in various ways and flavors.
Raised dough is also  used to make filled rounds, bars and twists.
The rounds are cut and fried.  After cooled creams and or fruits are inserted into the center of the round.  These rounds are used to make jelly filled doughnuts.
Cake doughnuts are made from a batter.
The batter is extruded with a device (called a hopper) that dispenses the batter and forms it (into a shape) before it drops into hot oil.  The distinct look of the old fashion doughnut is made by the hopper.  Round with a hole, old fashioned style and bars are the most popular cake doughnuts.
French doughnut
French Cruller a doughnut that uses  Choux Pastry (French cuisine recipe) and is formed like a cake doughnut.  Using a device that extrudes and forms the dough into shape before it drops into hot oil.  The Cruller texture is light and fluffy and looks like a  round raised doughnut with an ornate ridged surface that lends to its elegant appearance.
The doughnuts can be served plain.  Or, the doughnuts can be glazed and topped with a range of foods and flavors.

Doughnuts are a food item that is almost exclusively available on a commercial basis.
Rarely do people make doughnuts InHome.
Doughnut production requires specific culinary skills and the proper preparation and Cookery equipment.
Also doughnuts are a perishable food  product.  They are good for a day.  After that food quality is noticeably degraded.  Day old doughnuts are sold at a discount.  Doughnuts are made and sold the same day to ensure freshness and highest food quality.
Doughnuts are available in a number of doughnut shops in Reno.
A doughnut shop is a food service operation that produces and distributes doughnuts.  The operation is set up with the proper equipment necessary for doughnut production.  The kitchen is focused on doughnut production.  There will be food preparation station.  A commercial proofer will be necessary.  Fryer commercial grade for frying doughnuts.  A glazing station will also be set up with equipment for filling and topping the doughnuts.  A stove and oven is also standard equipment.  Some of the doughnut shops in Reno have additional kitchen appliances like a flat top griddle.
The griddle facilitates making breakfast sandwiches.   Doughnuts are a popular American convenience food for breakfast.  Sandwiches are also a popular convenience food dish.  Offering the breakfast sandwich is a great attraction of the doughnut shops of Reno, NV.

Traditional Ethnic Foods and Dishes of Reno NV
Reno Nevada has been a melting pot of cultures since the late 1800s when Reno Nevada was formed.
All you can Eat traditional Reno dining style was available since 1930s Reno.

All of these ethnic cuisines have been present in Reno for decades to almost a century.
The foods and dishes from all these cultures are still popular in modern 21st. Century Reno, Nevada

1930s era Reno Nevada restaurant called The Carolina Pines had a menu with their Winter Rates.  On the menu they listed  Commencing on Dec. 3rd.  American Plan (name of food service)
Luncheon 10am to 1pm   All you can Eat  Adults  40¢ Children 25¢
Sundays and Holidays (Adults) 75¢  children 50¢
Good Food That's All  Reno has been providing the "All you can Eat" food service to residents, visitors , tourists and travelers since the 1930s.
'All you can Eat" Sushi  Sushi appeared in Reno Nevada  in 1989.  At the time $7.99 was the price of the  "All you can Eat", lunch deal.
Present day Reno All you can Eat Sushi can be found at a number of establishments.

The Chinese presence in Reno dates from June 19, 1868.
Chop Suey was being served to the people of Reno over 100 years ago.
Chinese Cuisine history Reno Nevada
1904 local newspapers Reno Nevada
An establishment known as Cash's a brick store in (Reno's) Chinatown began advertising "Hot Chop Suey" served every night and day.  The traditional Chinese dish (present on  a menu in Reno in 1904) Chop Suey can be found on current Chinese restaurants (in Reno) menus.
The 2024 versions of the traditional Chinese dishes from the 1970s can be found in a number of Chinese establishments across metropolitan Reno.
Chinese dishes 1970s Reno
Money Tree Chinese Restaurant Lunch Dishes
Egg Foo Yong
Pork, Chicken, Shrimp    $2.25
Fried Rice                        $1.85
Chop Suey                      $1.95
Water chestnuts, Bamboo Shoots, Bean Sprouts
Tomato Beef Chow Yuke     $2.25
Choice Grade Beef Sauteed with celery, tomatoes,  onions, green peppers.
Chow Mein                         $1.95
Pork, Chicken, Shrimp served  on crispy noodles
Sweet and Sour Pork         $1.95

On 1950s Roberto's Reno Lunch menu
Sandwich Bar  (cold sandwiches)
All sandwiches served with Potato Salad
French Roll sandwiches    50¢
Bologna & Cheese            50¢
Salami  & Cheese              50¢
Special sandwich   The Luigi  75¢
Lettuce, Pickle, Onion, Bologna, Salami, Ham, Cheese.   served with Potato salad
Hot Sandwiches
Grilled Cheese                   50¢
Grilled Ham and cheese    75¢
Bacon and Egg                  75¢
Other traditional Italian dishes served in 1950s Reno Roberto's restaurant.
Spaghetti with Meat sauce Salad, Roll   $1.00
Veal Cutlet  salad, Potato, Applesauce  $1.50
Reno has dozens of sandwich shops serving the popular convenience meal.
As well as several Italian cuisine restaurants serving traditional Italian foods and dishes.

A Reno establishment in the 1950s list a sub-menu of Mexican dishes.
Present day Reno diners also list a sub-menu of Mexican food and dishes.
A Reno tradition over 70 years.
Mexican Food traditional dishes Reno
Word War 2 era and 1950s restaurant menus commonly featured Mexican cuisine available for Lunch and Dinner services.
Sub-menu of Mexican food dishes
Combination  (plate)
Taco, Enchilada, Fries Beans $1.25
Taco with Fried Beans          60¢
Chili and Beans                    50¢
Fries Beans                          40¢
Hambt with chili and beans   75¢
Currently, Mexican cuisine establishments are numerous and  are the most popular ethnic restaurants in Reno and northern Nevada.

The Basque people originates from the Pureness mountain region of France and Spain.  Like a lot of immigrants of the day the Basque came to Northern Nevada for the gold rush.  A great number of those that came for the gold rush settled in the area and became sheep herders,farmers and ranchers.
The Basque customer was like the Original Farm to Table.  Livestock sheep and cattle were their food sources.
Reno traditional Basque Dining
Downtown Reno the Louis Basque restaurant still operates serving Basque cuisine.  Louis and Lorraine Erreguible opened Louis' Basque Corner in 1967 as a testament to their Basque heritage. An emigrant from Mauleon, Basses Pyrenees, France, and a World War II veteran.

BURGER KING
Carl's Jr.
DEL TACO
Jack in the Box
Jimboy's Tacos
McDonald's
Taco Bell
Wendy's

Fast Food
A fast food service primary objective is to produce foods at quick rate and timely manner.  Non fast food establishments commonly take 10 to 20 plus minutes to produce a food order.  Fast food time for production usually are half the time.
Some fast foods places (usually chains) offer a clean dining room but no table service.

American  Cuisine
The majority of the Fast Food Quick service food operations in Reno are chains.
(Jack in the Box, BK, McDonald's, Carl's Jr., Wendy's, to name chains present in Reno NV.)
Chain food service operations are great choices.  The chain food service operations (especially in Reno) have dining rooms.  Which means there are staff maintained restrooms available for their diners.  In the dining rooms the self serve beverage station and self serve condiments station available.
Menu Fast Food Meal Deals
One of the great features of the Fast food menu the meal deals.
Each food offering on the menu can be  acquired a la carte (by itself) each at its own cost.   The meal deals combined food items together and the offer will be priced at a value.
eg. One fast food chain is offering 2 sandwiches for $6.00.  To buy 2 sandwiches a la carte would be more expensive than the value deal.
The same applies when ordering all the components of a complete meal.
A main or entree, a side and a beverage.
Every Fast Food chain operation has a menu with meal deals.
American cuisine Fast Food operations commonly provided online order capability to order for pickup take away or delivery for EatingOutInHome.

Ethnic Cuisine
Fast food and Quick Service Reno
There are large chain,  small chain, tiny chain and  independent establishments providing food service at a reasonable cost.  Comparable to American cuisine Fast Food and Quick Service  establishments.
The large chain Fast Food Mexican cuisine establishments (El Pollo loco, Taco Bell, del taco, Jimboy's all present in Reno,NV.) have great amenities.
Dining rooms with Beverage station and a condiments station and maintained restrooms.
Menus always have some form of value meals deals and featured specials.
Ethnic cuisine Fast Food operations commonly provide online order capability to order for pickup take away or delivery for EatingOutInHome.

Food Trucks/Trailers
Mobile restaurants/eateries offering select dishes as well as a range of foods and beverages.  Found at locations like Parks and parking lots all over Reno.

Food Trucks and Trailers are like a commercial kitchen that can be operated anywhere you can park the vehicle.
 The vehicles (trucks, trailers, stands) are set up and operated with focused products
eg.  A truck that sells Pizza is set up with some form of Pizza oven. A truck that sells burgers will be set up to Grill.  The menus are usually limited in variety and choices.  The allure of the Food Truck is specific types of foods and dishes that are available only through the truck.
 Foods available are commonly pre-made packaged item. 

Food Trucks are a popular part of the food and dining culture of Reno, Nevada.
During the summer Reno celebrates the modern day version of the chuck wagon with Food Truck Fridays.  At Idlewild Park food trucks gather to serve their cuisines and specialty food dishes to the people of Reno.
Every Friday June 7th. through August the 30th. 2024  At Idlewild Park Reno

A Gastropub is a Pub that operates as a pub and to produce foods and dishes at a gourmet fine dining level.
Modern times the term Gastropub is being applied incorrectly.  ie. A food service operation that is neither a pub or a producer of gourmet and or fine dining dishes and uses the term Gastropub.
In Reno, a number of places are being labelled as gastropub.  There are a number of pubs that offer a menu of in-house produced dishes that are proper quality.
Mama Celeste's Gastropub
A true Pub/Sports Bar venue that serves fine dining gourmet pizzas.
Gastropub history
The term came from England and was recognized as being coined in the 1990s.
The term came from merging the word pub with gastronomy.
(Gastronomy is the science and art of fine dining and study of gourmet food and beverage.)
The word is used to describe an establishment that focuses on fine dining foods and dishes along with the feature of operating a pub.

Grill Restaurant
An establishment with a menu that features foods cooked on a grill.
Grilled foods like meats, seafood and vegetables are expected offerings at a Grill.  Burgers, sandwiches and salads are dishes available at grills in Reno.

Note:  Smoking inside at a dining establishment is allowed at specific Grills in Reno.

Ice Cream
- is a dessert food dish that is made from milk fat that has been sweetened and flavored.
Ice cream is a very popular dessert in the USA.
Ice cream's history starts a long time ago far away from the American West.
Ice Cream origins in flavoured Snow
History reports Roman emperor Nero  had a hunger for snow flavoured with  honey.
Marco Polo reported seeing Chinese men sitting on cushions eating ice flavoured with exotic fruits.

Ice Cream Parlours /Ice Cream Shops

• places that sell ice cream, gelato, sorbet, and/or frozen yogurt to consumers.

Ice Cream Creamery

• A facility dedicated to production and distribution of ice cream and related food items.

Unique Cafe 1940s Reno
Ice Cream or Sherbet  15¢
Pie A  La Model (with ice cream)  20¢
Sundaes   20¢
Strawberry  Chocolate  Pineapple Raspberry

Commercially manufactured ice creams have an overrun amount.
(Overrun is the amount of air injected into the ice cream to increase volume.pPp0)
Overrun range
Ranges are from ppp0⁰0000⁰
0 (no air) to 200.
200 is the maximum of being all air.
Overrun maximum limit (legally) is 100.
Which would make the ice cream 50% air.
Ice cream needs some amount of air otherwise it would be hard.
100 overrun would be mushy bodied and would melt rapidly.
20 to 50 overrun (10% to 25% air) would make a dense creamier
How to figure out overrun
Overrun is not listed on the commercial ice cream package
Ice cream with 50% overrun (25% air) will weigh out 18 ounces per pint.  Subtract the weight of the container.  Averages about one and a half to two ounces weight of container.
Weight of the ice cream will be proportionally higher with a lower percentage of overrun.

Ice cream is made with a combination of milk products  (commonly cream combined with fresh, condensed or dry milk), sweetening agents (like sugar, corn syrup, honey or artificial sweetener) and sometimes solid foods additions such as pieces of chocolate, nuts and fruits.
According to FDA regulations, Ice creams with solid additions  must contain a minimal of 8% milk fat.
Plain ice creams must have 10% milk fat.
French ice cream is made from a cooked egg custard base.  Which makes the ice cream texture lush.
Commercial manufactured ice cream commonly contains additives and stabilizers to improve texture and to help with melt rate.  Many contain artificial colorings and flavors.
Ice creams made with natural flavorings will be labeled as Ice Cream.  eg. Vanilla flavor natural flavorings will be read as "Vanilla Ice Cream".
If the ice cream contains a majority of natural flavorings and a small percent artificial it will read as "Vanilla flavored Ice Cream".
When over 50% of the flavoring is artificial the label will read "Artificial Vanilla Ice Cream".

Lounge
a bar, typically in a hotel, restaurant, or airport, where alcoholic drinks are served
Food may or may not serve food
Reno Cocktail Lounges more often than not have some form of food.
Cheese and Charcuterie plates to appetizer finger foods served at happy hours.
All levels of Cocktail Lounges can be found in Reno

Pizzeria
A food service establishment that produces and serves primarily the food dish pizza.
Current pizzerias in Reno serve wings, salads and appetizers.

Pub
pronounced /pəb/

BRITISH origin word to describe a food and beverage establishment that has a focus on serving beers, wines and pub style dishes.
Specific food offerings and dishes found in Pubs in England
Fish and Chips,Shepherd's Pie, Bangers and Mash Scottish Eggs are examples.
American Pubs
Pubs in America will often serve a dish or two of British Pub dishes, (like fish and chips and Shepherds Pie.)
Sandwiches, burgers,  main dish entrees and appetizers can be found in American Pubs in Reno.
Modern Pubs in America offer elevated appetizers.  Like Jalapeno poppers and Chicken Wings of a variety of flavors.
A range of fried appetizers are commonly on the menu of American Pubs.
Food offerings like Fried Pickles served with a dipping sauce are on menus on Reno's Pubs.

Sandwich Shop - modern day version of a delicatessen.
Delicatessen word adopted by England and America.
German word "delikatessen," which means "delicious things to eat."
Delicatessens in the USA are a store or shop that sells ready made foods and delicacies.
Present day delicatessens aka sandwich shop.
Sandwich Shops serve sandwiches, salads, soups, baked goods (sweet like cookies and savory like bread), cured meats and canned and bottled foods and condiments.

Sandwich Shops (present day) are food service operations that focus on production and distribution of sandwiches and related food items.  The kitchen in a sandwich shop will have the equipment to produce all the food  components of the sandwich.  ie.  An oven for baking bread.  A griddle to cook ingredients and sandwiches.  A station for preparing foods (like a slicer station) and sandwiches (for assembly and packaging of sandwich and food items).  Sandwich Shops are like a delicatessen minus the market store.
Delicatessens are a market with an inventory of food products like charcuterie.  Delicatessens production kitchen should be set up to produce the charcuterie meats.  As well as soups, salads and dishes.  The delicatessens will have a complete kitchen for production of foods.

Seafood in Reno, NV
Historical records of Northern Nevada State there were Oyster Saloons in the late 1800s.  Fine- living wild West these establishments were catering to the new rich (prospectors striking it rich) and the local population of immigrants working the mines.
The technology of the day the railroad developed refrigerator railroad cars in the late 1800 s .  The first refrigerated railcar was invented by Gustavus Swift in the 1870s.  Over the next several decades, refrigerated railcars continued to evolve and improve.  In the 1920s and 1930s, mechanical refrigeration systems were introduced, which used compressors and electric motors to cool the air inside the car. This made refrigerated railcars more efficient and reliable, and it allowed for the transportation of a wider range of temperature-sensitive goods.  Specifically seafood and meats were able to be transported coast to coast
By the mid 1920 a local ice factory started supplying ice to the local businesses and Casinos.  Enabling the local restaurants to serve  seafood.
1940s Reno dining establishments of the day had a selection of seafood on their menus.
Monarch Cafe listed oysters from the Pacific Northwest Olympia oysters and Eastern oysters.
Freshwater Trout and a variety of fish from the sea were available.
Unique Cafe 1940s world war 2 era Reno
Seafood heading on their menu
Fish and Oysters
Steamed Finnan Haddie, Boiled Potato  50¢
Grilled Halibut or Salmon      50¢
Fried Filet of Sole, Tarter Sauce    50¢
Rainbow Trout Boiled or Fried     75¢
Half Doz.  Fries Oysters, Cole Slaw   60¢
Half Doz. Oysters Stewed in Milk   50¢
Half Doz. Cream Stew    75¢
Half Doz. Stewed in Half and Half   60¢
Half Doz.  Pan Roast   50¢
Hangtown Fry    75¢
(Chopped oysters, Bell peppers, onions, eggs)

steakhouse  noun
pronunciation   STAYK +  HOWS
A proper steakhouse should have a full bar with bar counter seating and table seating.  Patrons will commonly wait in the Bar Lounge for their table.
Note:  If the wait is long or you do not want to wait for a dining room table take a table in the Bar/Lounge if there is one available.

Steakhouse  -  USA North American term for a restaurant that specializes in serving beef steaks and related food offerings and dishes.
Steakhouses are frequently patronized for the celebration dining experience.  The  level of food quality and hospitality service must be at above average in order to be a steakhouse operation.  Cost of a steakhouse dining experience can range from $25 to $50 and higher per person.  All depending on the actual steaks, meats, foods and drinks ordered.  That does not include tip in the range of  $10 to $12 or 15% to 18% of the total individual's.
Steakhouse amenities and features
Western style Hospitality service is the service that compels patrons to return.
The food quality is above average.
The duties of the "Front of the  House staff are performed in an engaging and enthusiastic manner.  The objective is to entertain the guests while providing above average service
Full bar beverage service and full table service are features of the steakhouse.
Features foods and dishes
Beef steaks are available in a variety of cuts and portions sizes.
A true steakhouse will age their meat using one of two methods, dry-aging and wet aging.
A common practice in a steakhouse is to not only age the primal cut of meat, the steaks are hand cut by the In-House meat cutter.
(The meat cutter's job is to cut the steaks from the primal cuts.  The meat cutter also handles (prepares and manages) the other meats on offered.  Like pork, fish, seafood.
A chicken dish and a pork (steak like cut the chop) dish are often on the menu for Diner's that want a  meat but not (red meat) beef steak.
Seafood is also a popular meat served at a steakhouse.  Surf and Turf is a menu staple on the steakhouse menu.
Lobster and a cut of steak (sirloin, New York, ribeye, filet and ground) is the most popular version of the Surf and Turf steakhouse meal.
Surf and Turf other seafood choices:  Salmon, Bass, Halibut and Trout are the most popular dish choices.
Seafoods like Scallops and crab are great pairings  as well.  Shrimp grilled or shrimp dish like Scampi are also found in steakhouses.
Side dishes like Potato dishes, Mac and cheese and beans accompany the meats on the plate.  Salads and soups are popular dishes offered at steakhouses.  Enjoyed as a first course or have served with the mains/entrees.  As well as a dessert menu with at least several choices.

In American dining culture the steak has been the celebration meal.  Since the days of the wild West the steak has reigned as the celebratory dinner dish.  Steak cut London Broil (a thick piece of lean meat) was on tavern menus during the late 1800s in Reno.
Chateaubriand steak cut comes from the center of the tenderloin.  The most valued  cut from the fillet head.
Steakhouses In Virginia City Nevada  in the early 1900s listed Chateaubriand as their steak meal.
Chateaubriand due to its tender nature should be cooked to medium rare 125°f.  to 130°f. Internal temperature for medium rare.
Due to the heart-like shape of the cut, it is a steak used for a dish for two.  Perfect steak for a couple to share.
Chateaubriand  pronounced "sha-toe-bree-AHN"
chateaubriand, named for a 19th-century French aristocrat named François-René de Chateaubriand.
Supposedly his chef  invented  the meat dish.
chateaubriand was a large, boneless cut of beef prepared by layering it within two or more less quality cut of  steaks, using said steaks to form an outer layer by tying it into a bundle . then roasting in an oven  or broiler at 425° F.
When the outer steaks were charred, the roast was done. The burnt outer steaks were then discarded. This technique supposedly ensured that the chateaubriand was cooked evenly throughout.

Hospitality service exists to make the life moments spent dining more enjoyable.
Definition of Western style Hospitality table service dining.
Treat every person you meet with respect, kindness in a pleasant engaging manner and attitude.
Generate and maintain a friendly and welcoming atmosphere and elevated feeling above and beyond the normal everyday,  Conduct that presentation a sense of caring for guests.  An alertness of the patrons condition and focused attention to recognize their needs and acting accordingly so all requests are fulfilled and all needs are met.
Definition of hospitality
friendly, engaging  reception and entertaining and accommodating  interaction of guests, visitors, or strangers.
In order for a food service establishment to be recognized as a steakhouse there must be a meat focused menu and a hospitality service dedicated staff.  Hospitality service plus specialized food service makes a Steakhouse.

In order to operate a dinner service at a steakhouse there must be a staff trained in steakhouse operations.
Steakhouses back of the house operation is focused on the meat aspects necessary to provide high quality steakhouse meals.
Aging meat is a specialty of the steakhouse.
Aging meat for steaks
There are two aging processes for beef.
Dry aging and Wet aging.
Dry aging is a process that requires staff to closely monitor the steaks in the aging process.  A dry aging station needs to be set up.
Wet aging is the process of holding meats wrapped and sealed in refrigeration for 3 to 4 weeks, 21 to 28 days.  This enhances tenderness.
Some steakhouses wet age primal cuts of meat ( like sirloin and tenderloin) and then after the primal cut is properly wet aged , is then cut into steaks.
Most casual to fine-dining chain steakhouses utilize the wet aging process.  The process takes less labor and staff and is more efficient with less waste of the steak.
The world's largest fine-dining chain practices wet aging of their Prime Grade steaks.
Dry aging beef process guide
15  2 weeks days dry aged--little to no perceptible change in flavor.  Little to no effect on tenderness  of the steak.
3 to 4 weeks  21 to 28 days:
starts to get tender,  but  no major changes in flavor. 3 weeks A common practice for a upscale high end  steakhouse .
Fine-dining  and Grand level dining steakhouses are the operations that use dry aged process.

One steakhouse that offers Prime also offers Bison Steak.
The following are some of the expected features and the types of meats for steaks available in Reno Nevada and elsewhere in the USA
The selection of meat types for Steaks
Steakhouses in Reno use the wet- age process and or dry-age process for their steaks.
Oscar served steak
Oscar style steaks........ Seafood (crab or scallops or shrimp) plus Hollandaise sauce plus asparagus.  Generous topping for a steak.
Prime --  USA produced  USDA Grade highest for beef.
Angus Beef steaks CAB graded high food quality
Only 10% of Angus beef meet the standards certification.
Certified Angus Beef ® (CAB®)  trademark for beef that has met  the standard of high Grade Angus beef.
A5 Kobe
A4 A5 Kogoshima Wagyu
Kagoshima --- Japanese Black cattle from Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan. A4 A5 rating (A rating system for Japan beef Kobe and Waygu
similar to USDA Grade system.)
Japanese Wagyu steak
Japan beef  Imported from Kumamoto Japan
Beef Marbling Standard Scale 11/12
Westholme - Australian bred waygu  Westholme Wagyu marbling levels range from a marble score of 4-5 to a  9+.
Prime Grade beef cuts are available in several steakhouses in Reno.
American Steakhouses more often than not serve Choice grade beef.
Only 2% to 5% of the beef processed in the USA is Prime Grade.  Which means that it is the most expensive cut of beef available.  Therefore Prime is found in high end Fine-dining & Grand Dining steakhouses.

A Virtual Restaurant Exists and Operates Online.  There is NO dining room, lobby or any form of physical world amenities found in real restaurants.
The production of the food offerings and dishes are handled by a commercial food service kitchen.
A commercial kitchen is a kitchen that utilizes proper food handling equipment and is monitored by the local health department.
The kitchens for Virtual Restaurants are most commonly kitchens that are operating their own food service.
Example Chili's Restaurant chain operate their own commercial kitchen in their establishments for production of their menu.
Two virtual restaurants (in the Reno area) use Chili's kitchen to produce the food offerings for their virtual restaurants menu.
An Italian foods virtual restaurant and a wings primary  menu virtual restaurant use Chili's commercial kitchen.

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