As an American:
Are they all different? Yes.
Does that make them good? No.
Fifty shades of mid. The best burgers can’t be found at chains.
Now chains for entrees other than burgers & fries, on the other hand, you can find find some surprisingly decent quality food.
Since I learned of it’s existence, the american use of entree is weird.
Is like calling the ground floor first floor.
Either way the entree is on a different place as where you expect it.
Gonna push back hard on the “ground floor first floor” thing.
“This building has two floors: there’s the first floor, and the second floor.” Vs “this building has two floors: the ground floor and the first floor.” Which makes more sense, the counting system that works like virtually every other counting system for physical objects (which floors are) or the counting system that starts from zero rather than one?
Regarding entree, according to Wikipedia the word has changed meaning so many times I don’t think anyone can claim a “correct” usage of the term anymore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrée
It makes much more sense if you have basement floors though. It would make little sense to call the first basement level -1 while you also call the first upper level 2.
Plus it’s quite useful for naming rooms. Rooms on the ground floor start with 0 (i.e R 005), on the first floor with 1 (i.e. R 108) and on the first basement floor with -1 (i.e. R -103).
I’ve always been pretty neutral on the ground/first floor thing, but you’ve just convinced me! I am now a firm believer of ground floor superiority
