“Full-service restaurant” means a public eating place that is used, maintained, advertised and held out to the public as a place that has a full dinner and/or lunch menu serving full course meals, daily prepared in its own kitchen, that are typically served at a table or counter. Food prepared to go or for take-out is allowed as an accessory use as long as the same menu and kitchen are used as for the full-service restaurant. This definition excludes fast food, drive-in types of restaurants, which have characteristics including but not limited to a drive-through window, counter-only service and no waiters or waitresses.

A. full-service restaurant may serve alcoholic beverages that are incidental and complementary to the serving of food. A full-service restaurant may contain a lounge where the primary function is the sale, serving and consumption of alcoholic beverages, but the size of this lounge may not exceed 30 percent of the total gross floor area of the establishment. Any eating place that serves alcoholic beverages and does not meet the requirements of this definition will be considered a tavern as defined by ACC 18.04.895. (Ord. 6245 § 3, 2009; Ord. 5382 § 1, 2000. Formerly 18.04.805.)