Tavern

The pub is a restaurant that serves mainly the consumption of beer, as well as other alcoholic and non- alcoholic beverages.

More formal but more rarely used terms for " pub " are " local ", " tavern ", " tavern ", or " tavern " as opposed to "food industry" ( restaurant). As often small meals or snacks are available in pubs, the limit to the restaurant is fluent.

Etymology

The term " bar" is in 1781 " a beer house " occupied by Christian Wilhelm child for life. Augustine says in his " Idiotikon the lads Language" ( 1791) already provided by an " inn ". Around the middle of the 19th century the word in the student pub was used as Eindeutschung the earlier used Kommerses in student language. C. B of Ragotzky wrote in 1831 his work " The fleet lad ," in which the statement corresponds to " pub " of today's meaning: " pub is generally called every tavern [ ... ] ".

The term is a shortening of the term Kneip inn, which already existed in the 18th century. This was to premises that were so narrow that the guests had to sit compressed. The occupied in the Central German verb pubs " squeeze " for is a loan word from the Middle Low German word knīpen (cf. the modern Low German form kniepen ), the pinch with high German is cognate.

Other names

Local dialect, there are in Austria, the term pub, in German-speaking Switzerland pickling, in Old Bavaria Boazn and partly in Baden- Württemberg Boitz. These names are derived from the Yiddish bajis for home (Hebrew beijt ) ago. In Upper Lusatia the term Kretscham is used.

Schanke points to the serving as the main feature of a pub. As Bumslokal or Bums ( e) ( Austrian: " Bums'n ", also called " Rumms'n " ) is a pub " dubious nature " in a loud dance music called that is not a nightclub. In a pejorative maximum are finally the expressions dive bar or tavern for a seedy bar.

Setup and Operation

Typical of pubs is the serving of draft beer at the bar at which guests can sit frequently. In the guest room then are more tables and chairs. Some include the establishment of a pub and play equipment such as pool tables, foosball, darts, pinball and slot machines. Many pubs also have televisions, for example, where football matches are shown publicly. In some pubs a savings cabinet, put cash in the regular members of local savings clubs depends.

The operator of a pub is the host, often are still waiters employed. The opening times of pubs are controlled by the locally valid curfew.

Pubs dying

For years, a tendency can be seen that the number of pubs and restaurants original is sustained. Leader of the pubs dying is Hamburg, where the number of restaurants has fallen by 48.1 percent since 2001. The reasons for the general decline in beer consumption, an altered social behavior of the young and the Non smoking protection will be accepted.