[Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

Katie Filbert filbertk at gmail.com
Tue May 4 13:42:52 BST 2010


On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:22 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Do you have any concrete examples?
>
> Most McDonald's "restaurants" have tables and sit down areas, but we
> tag them as fast food because that is the politically correct way to
> refer to junk food...
>
>
The discussions have been very helpful...

Some of the inconsistencies I found in the Washington DC area were with my
own edits :()   In my earlier edits, I regarded places like Chipotle and
even Subway as restaurants.  Although healthier, I now definitely regard
Subway as fast food and in more recent edits tagged it that way.

Then I learned about our zoning criteria and realized "fast casual" places
like Chipotle could also be regarded as fast food... fast casual places tend
to be a little bit nicer, the food better and not regarded the same way as
McDonalds.

In the database for just the Washington DC area, we have six Chipotles
tagged as amenity=fast_food (mostly added by myself, but by four users in
all) and seven tagged as amenity=restaurant. (mostly added by me, by four
users total)   All the Chipotles I have been to are consistent in every
aspect, unlike Pizza Huts which can vary.

Although from the discussion, it seems like either amenity=restaurant or
amenity=fast_food and mixed tags would be okay in general, I still would
like some guidance or suggestions on what to do for tagging Chipotle, as a
specific case.

In other cases, I'm fine with having some variation (especially across
different regions) and the renderer can deal with it.

Regards,
Katie



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