2010/1/19 David Earl <[email protected]>: > On 19/01/2010 17:42, John F. Eldredge wrote: >> beverages > > interestingly, not a word you would often find used in British English. > Generally "drinks" often means alcoholic beverages, though sometimes any > depending on context, with "soft drinks" and "hot drinks". > >> pub > > I'd have thought this is a largely British/Irish phenomenon, yes? > Most "pubs" elsewhere in the world are attempts at emulating or mocking > British/Irish pubs, and nearly everywhere else has bars (and we do too, > as well as pubs). The "micro breweries" found in parts of the US come > pretty close to the British concept of pub, though no doubt some would > want to make the distinction of beer being brewed on the premises (not > unknown though in British pubs, though rare - I can think of two, one in > Bury St Edmunds and one in Hampshire). > > But the British pub concept has changed in recent years too as more and > more become restaurants, where the drinks are subsidiary to food. > >> I am to divide these into "cafe", >> "pub" and "bar", based on whether they sell drinks and snacks or light >> food... > > Not really. I think it's what the operator calls it that counts, not > your subjective judgement. The difficulty in France and Netherlands is > that the word cafe seems to better correspond to the English usage for > bar not cafe, but if there was agreement that this is indeed the case, > we could solve it objectively by rote not by judgement. >
In my book its easy. Cafe - Place to buy and consume light snacks and NON-Alcoholic Drinks (Tea, Coffee, Coke etc) on site. Usually Unlicensed. Pub - Place to buy and consume Alcoholic Drinks on site, (may also retail Non-Alcoholic Drinks, Snacks and sometimes Food) Bar - Place to buy Alcoholic Drinks within a large establishment, maybe with a hotel, or holiday complex, may share its seating with other vendors. The line is weather it sells Beer, or other Alcoholic Beverages, Peter. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
