Twenty single-malt whiskies feature on its extensive beverage list.

That same year, the company introduced gourmet sodas to its beverage list.

Within the first few weeks of its 1994 launch, Espíritu jumped to the top of the country's alcoholic beverage list, driven largely by tourists.

"Oh, I'm going to," Anne Marie said, and she went away to make lists, the food list and the seating arrangement list and the beverage list and the phone call list.

A beverage list had the usual soft drinks and bottled beers.

Sakura's beverage list includes several house specialty mixed drinks, Japanese beers and a small, well-chosen wine list, with many wines by the glass.

All prices on board - in the gift shop and on the restaurant's beverage list - were in marks, the cause of endless head scratching among our four table mates.

"I drink water occasionally," Mr. Ivester said when asked what else was on his personal beverage list.

But an up-to-date culinary intelligence is evident in virtually everything else about the place, starting with the beverage list, a tall, plain-paper document handed to you by a member of the winsome, well-informed young staff.

In 1996, the franchise's beverage list was expanded, and by 1999 so was the portion size, reflecting a trend seen in the industry where customers are buying fewer but larger drinks.