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À la carte is a French language loan phrase meaning "according to the menu", and used * in reference to a menu of items priced and ordered separately, i.e., the usual operation of restaurants. This is in contrast to a table d'hôte, at which a menu with limited or no choice is served at a fixed price. * to order an item from the menu on its own, e.g., a steak without the potatoes and vegetables is steak à la carte * to describe a retail pricing model in which goods or services traditionally bundled together are separated out, putatively giving the consumer greater choice at lower cost. Examples include airline pricing where in-flight drinks or snacks are not complimentary, on-line music purchasing where individual tracks can be bought instead of entire albums, or pay television where individual channels can be ordered rather than a bundle of channels. The phrase was adopted into English in 1826, predating by a decade the common use of the French language loanword "menu".〔Richard Bailey, (Eating Words ), Michigan Today, 13 May 2008.〕〔Menu, (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language ), 4th edition, Houghton Mifflin〕 ==See also== *Omakase *''Table d'hôte'', the opposite of ''À la carte'' *List of French words and phrases used by English speakers *Pro rata, a method of billing or other calculation based on proportional usage 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「À la carte」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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