In the UK a fish and chips shop is sometimes called a "chip shop". The New York Times helpfully translated this in a recent article:

> “I’ve seen lots of students my age struggling, trying to get work and even the basic necessities,” Agastya Dhar, 17, said. Mr. Dhar has a part-time job in a French fry restaurant, but said even getting that job was tough.

French fry restaurant is now my preferred term for the local chippy. For those outside the UK chip shops normally have no seating, or maybe a couple of uncomfortable, uninviting, flourescent lit plastic benches and tables, normally bolted down, maybe sprayed clean at the end of the night.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/world/europe/uk-budget-yo...

In the Netherlands we have two words for fries and you know if someone is from the north or the south based on their use: Patat, north en Friet, south, particularly in the South people are sensitive to using the wrong, northern word. (And chips are just crisps here.)

I heard some restaurant getting sued for selling "fish and chips" without fish, but I don't remember how it ended

Same in the US