Restaurant

Hang on, “restaurant” is a military term? In a roundabout way yes.

Up until the French Revolution (1789 -99) there were very few places where you could simply walk in a get a meal. Sure there were pubs and inns, but no where that was specifically just for eating.

In Paris, during the revolution, many upper class citizens lost their lives (OK, had them taken) and this had the unfortunate effect of leaving most of their serving staff without a means to support themselves. Suddenly Paris was awash with professional cooks, servers, wine experts  and the like who decided to do what they did best and set up shop for themselves.

These shops were called restaurants  which comes from the French for “to restore” or “to restock”. So if you are hungry you can restore yourself at one of these fine establishments.