Coffee restaurant
The coffee restaurant is a typical Austrian form of a restaurant .
In a coffee restaurant , a normal restaurant with extensive meals is offered during main meal times, i.e. at noon and in the evening , but unlike restaurants, it is not locked after meals, only the kitchen is closed and normal coffeehouse operations with serving and small dishes are offered, sometimes up to late in the evening, where the guest is encouraged to linger longer, as is typical of a coffee house. Coffee restaurants are also often open earlier than restaurants, sometimes even at breakfast time . This form belongs to the more sophisticated gastronomy.
Coffee restaurants are one of the more basic types of operation under Section 111 (5) of the Trade Regulations .
The term goes back to the French - and also Mediterranean - gastronomy. Guests there typically stay much longer after eating, and in country restaurants up to the top category it is usually possible to only have an afternoon coffee or to come in the evening after meal times. Cafés also offered upscale cuisine from an early age, and the term café-restaurant as a combination is common. The French spelling can also be found in Austria. Even the typical French bistro , originally a snack bar , and similar modern forms can take on the character of a coffee restaurant.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hospitality & Operating Modes. Info sheet from the Lower Austrian Chamber of Commerce, 2016, coffee restaurant. P. 10 ( pdf ( Memento of the original dated January 10, 2018 Internet Archive ) Info: . The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested Please review the original and archive link according to instructions . And remove then this notice , wko.at) - For example, curfew in Lower Austria (state law) is 5:00 a.m.
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↑ a b These facts were explicitly stated by the Administrative Court in a decision: "[...] The special peculiarity of such a [ie: a coffee restaurant] is [...] that it looks like a coffee house and only in the hours of Main meals, when the tables are set and menus are put on, is similar to a restaurant. It stands out from a restaurant in that the services of a coffee house are also provided there, which are not limited to the serving of coffee [...] essentially after meals taken in the company. ” Finding VwGH 1738/71 of 12 January 1972 (online, ris.bka );
The concept of the coffee house includes in particular the availability of daily newspapers and other measures to encourage guests to linger for a long time; Regarding
the concept of the restaurant as a place of higher quality, see the knowledge of VwGH 1303/67 of September 11, 1968, VwSlg 7394 A / 1968. - ^ Albert Hirsch: Paris and its most excellent surroundings. Verlag EA Fleischmann, Munich 1867, C coffee houses and coffee restaurants. P. 29 ff ( digitized version, Google, full view ).
