[Tagging] What tag(s) for a school canteen ?

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2012/6/18 Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
> <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> are self service restaurants tagged as restaurants? How is the
>> distinction made?
>
> I don't see a difference between "amenity=canteen" and
> "amenity=restaurant"+"access=private". Or we keep the word
> "restaurant" for public restaurants ?


I think a canteen is closer to a cafeteria than to a restaurant,
unless there are waiters. Still I believe the easiest and less
ambiguous tagging would be a dedicated tag instead of a subtag to one
of the established tags (for different things). A canteen is a
distinct feature with a dedicated word in many languages because it is
not a kind of restaurant.

There are other differences as well: usually you pay less because the
scope of the place is not to earn money but to make your
employees/students eat.

Cheers,
Martin


Btw: also in French it seems as if there are more differences than
just the access: "La cantine se différencie du restaurant par le fait
que ses repas sont gratuits ou bon marché, tout ou partie du coutN 1
étant pris en charge par la collectivité ou l'employeur."
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantine