snack bar

noun

1. a lunchroom or restaurant where light meals are sold.

snack bar

noun

1. a place where light meals or snacks can be obtained, often with a self-service system

Word History and Origins

Origin of snack bar¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Hike to Aliso Beach, heading up the stairs to the cliffs if the tide is high; there you’ll find the Lost Pier Cafe, a snack bar with burgers and other casual food.

From Los Angeles Times

Laid out more plainly: in the snack bar category, four companies – General Mills, Kellogg, Simply Good Foods and Mars – made 66.4% of the snack bars stocked on shelves, per 2021 data.

From Salon

Skyline Drive-In Theater: You can buy popcorn, candy, pizza, nachos and other food plus sweatshirts and blankets at Skyline’s snack bar before settling in to watch an outdoor movie.

From Seattle Times

Anderson da Silva Pantaleão was at the snack bar he owns last Friday when clay-colored water began filling the streets in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre.

From New York Times

She once saved a mission by disabling an Indonesian passenger train using only “some rando stuff I found in the snack bar.”

From Literature