Restaurant Facts

There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.

There's a restaurant in Albuquerque called Tim's Place that serves breakfast, lunch, and hugs - and it's owned by a man with Down's Syndrome.

Lentil As Anything, a successful Australian restaurant, allows its customers to pay whatever price they feel like paying for the food.

Ma Yu Ching's Bucket Chicken House in Kaifeng, China, established in 1153 AD during the Song Dynasty, is recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest restaurant still in operation.

New York City has approximately 27,000 restaurants. If you visited a different one every single day, it would take you nearly 74 years to try them all—and that's assuming none of them closed or opened while you were eating your way through.