What does 'outside of' mean in this text.
a restaurant offers a variety of dishes, more so than is the case with an inn. Thus most restaurants do not open for breakfast and [those] that do, [outside of] hotels or modern-day inns, specialize to some extent in this meal, but the meals they do serve have more options than traditional inns could provide.

In this text, what does 'outside of(hotels or modern-day inns) mean? It means 'except' or 'just outside, for location'? and plus, what can the pronoun 'those' be? Isn't it 'most restaurants'? Please help me out! Thanks.

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What does 'outside of' mean in this text.
a restaurant offers a variety of dishes, more so than is the case with an inn. Thus most restaurants do not open for breakfast and [those] that do, [outside of] hotels or modern-day inns, specialize to some extent in this meal, but the meals they do serve have more options than traditional inns could provide.

In this text, what does 'outside of(hotels or modern-day inns) mean? It means 'except' or 'just outside, for location'? and plus, what can the pronoun 'those' be? Isn't it 'most restaurants'? Please help me out! Thanks.

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Jenny, these are my thoughts, concerning your questions.

1.  'outside of' means "apart from". Using simpler language, the sentence is saying "Most restaurants don't open for breakfast. Some restaurants, apart from hotels or modern-day inns, provide few options for breakfast, but they have more options for meals than traditional inns." In this case, this creates a contrast to hotels and modern inns, which (according to this sentence) DO provide many options for breakfast. Hope that makes sense!

2. 'Those' is a relative pronoun, which, in this case, refers to "restaurants".

In contrast to "Most restaurants do not open for breakfast,...", the second clause " [and those that do]..." refers to the restaurants, which DO open for breakfast.

You can rewrite the sentence as: "and most restaurants, [outside of/apart from] hotels or modern-day inns, specialize to some extent in this meal,..."

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'outside of', in this case means 'except for', 'besides'  etc.

'those' is referring to 'restaurants'

Hope that helps!

Jessica

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and [those ( =restaurants)  ] that do, [except for]

outside ( of ) the hotel > showing location .
But for above "outside of " means "except for ( something) /not including beside something .

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they are just typos. 'variety' and 'specialize'

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I can't get the meaning of 'variet' and 'secialize'.. Are they 'various' and ’serialize‘?

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