"Der Koch im Restaurant hat Fragen."

Translation: The cook in the restaurant has questions.

[Justus1000]

What kind of restaurant is that?

[Adawg12040]

Could one say "The cook has questions in the restaurant?"

[GregTrotter]

To me, that sentence implies that if the cook was not in the restaurant, he would no longer have questions.

[SelphieB]

I agree I think the sentence "The cook in the restaurant has questions", implies that the cook in the restaurant, as opposed to any other cook, has questions, while the other version "The cook has questions in the restaurant", sounds like the questions are in the restaurant.

[Gktu207531]

Why dative case is used here?

[phle]

What is that supposed to mean?

[philster043]

Lol, one of the suggested English answers is: "The cookhas questions in the restaurant." I'll report it.

[JemezWalker]

So in German, would you instead say, "Der Koch hat Fragen im restaurant"? Or "...im restaurant Fragen"?

[tknkldfklty]

Is it strictly incorrect to say "Der Koch in dem Restaurant hat Fragen"? Do the words "in dem" have to be contracted to "im" as a rule?