Bakery vs. Restaurant — What's the Difference?

A bakery is an establishment that produces and sells flour-based food baked in an oven such as bread, cookies, cakes, pastries, and pies. Some retail bakeries are also categorized as cafés, serving coffee and tea to customers who wish to consume the baked goods on the premises.

A restaurant,(French: [ʁɛstoʁɑ̃] (listen)) or more informally an eatery, is a business that prepares and serves food and drinks to customers. Meals are generally served and eaten on the premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services.

A place where products such as bread, cake, and pastries are baked or sold. Also called bakeshop.

A place where people pay to sit and eat meals that are cooked and served on the premises.

A shop in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.

A business establishment where meals are served to the public.

The trade of a baker.

An eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter.

The trade of a baker.

An eating house.

A place for baking bread; a bakehouse.

A building where people go to eat

A workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold