Term for type of fast food restaurant [duplicate]
Is there English term for fast food restaurant that have only small area for food preparation and counter (facing street) at which people order food and eat?
Here is a photo from Bladerunner that is an example of what I am referring to.
I found out later that in Blade runner screenplay they refer to this area as Noodle bar
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Solution 1:
Consider the term food stall.
Stall noun 1 A stand, booth, or compartment for the sale of goods in a market or large covered area. ‘In fact, you don't even have to leave Bangkok to be entertained and amazed by the variety of restaurants, food stalls and markets on display.’ - ODO
The definition above doesn't talk about size, but the terms booth and stand both convey the notion of a small area.
Here is a link to an advertisement for a "Small Hut / Food Stall". (Disclaimer: I'm not knowingly affiliated to the linked business.)
Solution 2:
I've heard these called walk-up restaurants.
walk-up
adjective
- accessible to pedestrians from the outside of a building: a walk-up teller's window at a bank.
Citation: walk-up. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc.
Solution 3:
In Britain, a street-food selling place can be referred to as a kiosk or booth but generally it is only if it is in the name of the company who owns it. Most of the time, I have only heard the term van.
Van is most often used in Britain, as in kebab van
or burger van.
The thing with burger vans and kebab vans is that they generally don't just sell burgers. Whilst the name refers to their primary product, they sell other cooked foods.
Kebab vans sell burgers too and both kebab vans and burger vans provide hotdogs, bacon, sausage or egg baps in any combination such as egg and bacon, along with hot and cold soft-drinks.
You may have ice-cream stalls where the stall is static,
but travelling ice-cream stalls (which sell house-to-house for example) would be ice-cream vans.
You also have travelling sandwich vans selling sandwiches and cold soft-drinks workplace to workplace.