Read the following passage and answer the questions set on it.
Long before there were restaurants, there were taverns where people gathered to talk, have something to drink and perhaps something to eat.
In London there was another kind of place that was also the forerunner of the restaurant. This was the ‘Cook Shop’. The chief business of these Cook Shops was sale of cooked meals on the premises and was somewhat like a restaurant. There were Cook Shops in London as long back as the 12th Century.
The first place where a meal was provided every day at a fixed place was the tavern in England. They often became ‘dining clubs’ and these existed in the 15th Century. By the middle of the 16th Century, many town people of all classes had got into the habit of dining out in the taverns. Most of the taverns offered a good meal for a shilling or less, with wine and ale as extras. Many taverns became meeting places of the leading people of the day. Shakespeare used to be a regular customer of the Mermaid tavern in London.
About 1650, coffee-houses also sprang up in England. They served coffee and tea and chocolate, which were all new drinks at that time. Sometimes they served meals too. In 1765, a man named Boulanger opened a place in Paris which served meals and light refreshments, and he called his place a ‘restaurant’. This was the first time this word was used. It was a great success and many other places like it soon opened.
In a short time, all over France, there were similar eating places called restaurants. But the word ‘restaurant’ was not used till the end of the 19th Century.
In the United States, the first restaurant of which there are records was the Blue Anchor Tavern in Philadelphia which opened in 1683.
Answer the following in a word, a phrase or a sentence each.
(a) Where did people gather to drink before restaurants came into existence?
(b) What did the Cook Shops sell?
(c) When did dining places come into existence?
(d) Which tavern did Shakespeare often visit?
(e) When did coffee-houses come into existence in England?
(f) Pick out the word which means ‘identical’ in the passage and write it.
(g) J/Vho introduced the word ‘restaurant’ for the first time?
(h) Use the appropriate prefix to the word ‘regular’, to form its antonym.
(i) Blue Anchor Tavern is in
(a) Paris.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) France.
(j) Restaurants became in the 20th Century, (successful/success)
