"Rich people are eating in restaurants."
Translation:Az éttermekben gazdag emberek esznek.
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I think it does, but to me this feels more like "rich people eat in restaurants" (as opposed to, for instance, poor people eat at home), which, I think, is a more proper English sentence than the one proposed as translation here. The focus is on "rich people". I would translate the original Hungarian sentence (that is, with that word order) as "in (the) restaurants rich people are eating/eat" or even "in (the) restaurants there are rich people eating". The focus is on "in (the) restaurants". By the way, it's "éttermekben".
Aarrrgh! If I include the definite article on some sentences, it gets marked wrong; if I leave it out, it gets marked wrong. I see that someone has said that the indefinite article is underused and the definite article is overused in Hungarian. And my language sense was prodding me to include 'az," but I didn't listen. Arrgghh!