What is the difference between a diner and a restaurant?

Question

What is the difference between a diner and a restaurant?

Answer 1

restaurant is better

nicer , bigger...........

Answer 2

diner is a place where you can grab  a snack and a restaurant is a place which you can have a rest in a room! yes that's it!

Answer 3

Its not often that you see ties in a diner.

Answer 4

A restaurant is grander and the diner id usually smaller and is just a small time thing while a restaurant is big time and full scale. ü

Answer 5

a dinner is a prefad building it comes from the factory complete with tables chairs and kitchen. that's way there long and narrow the have to travel along the highway to there destionation.

Answer 6

A diner might say it was a restaurant, but a restaurant would never say it was a diner . . .

Answer 7

A diner stems from the 1950s and usually features food that includes burgers, fries, shakes and most breakfast items.  The skillet and fryer are primary cooking means.