cafeteria
a restaurant in which patrons wait on themselves, carrying their food to tables from counters where it is displayed and served.
a lunchroom or dining hall, as in a factory, office, or school, where food is served from counters or dispensed from vending machines or where food brought from home may be eaten.
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How to use cafeteria in a sentence
In the cavernous high school cafeteria, Judy and the board sat before the socially distanced attendees.
Two School Districts Had Different Mask Policies. Only One Had a Teacher on a Ventilator. | by Annie Waldman and Heather Vogell | November 23, 2020 | ProPublicaThe buffet adds the feel of a hospital cafeteria, the people dining look close to death or knowingly waiting to die.
Fast-Food Buffets Are a Thing of the Past. Some Doubt They Ever Even Existed. | MM Carrigan | September 29, 2020 | EaterYes, someone tells me — an all-you-can-eat Taco Bell existed in her dorm cafeteria.
Fast-Food Buffets Are a Thing of the Past. Some Doubt They Ever Even Existed. | MM Carrigan | September 29, 2020 | EaterOver a number of years, the company took over so much office space—even repurposing an entire building to serve as its corporate cafeteria—that some in Silicon Valley complained it had “sucked the life out of the startup ecosystem in Palo Alto.”
Why Palantir’s departure won’t doom Silicon Valley | Michal Lev-Ram, writer | August 27, 2020 | FortuneThere are also outdoor hallways and outdoor cafeteria space that many other districts don’t have on such a widespread scale.
Morning Report: How the City Botched 101 Ash St. Deal | Voice of San Diego | July 31, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
He swaggered into the school cafeteria that day with a .22 caliber handgun and started shooting randomly.
La Teresita also has an adjoining cafeteria where you can head for an informal buffet and heaping piles of Cuban delicacies.
Once inside the school cafeteria, which served as an antechamber, each candidate had his own booth.
Maybe Rutgers should add more vegan selections to its cafeteria fare.
My Commencement Speech to Rutgers’ Geniuses: Go Forth and Fail | P. J. O’Rourke | May 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 2012 a St. Louis school cafeteria worker, Dianne Brame, was fired for giving food to a fourth-grader who had no money.
While the roboticist puffed, Mike let his gaze wander idly over the other people in the cafeteria.
Unwise Child | Gordon Randall GarrettThere is provided a cafeteria at which the children can purchase at a small cost their noonday meal.
I ate my dinner at the hospital cafeteria after work each night and had TV dinners or ate out on the weekends.
The Biography of a Rabbit | Roy BensonGot some cakes and a little ice-cream in the bottom of a freezer from the company cafeteria.
White Fire | Roy J. SnellIt is said that in time they acquire a cafeteria shuffle which one can detect even on the street.
Vignettes Of San Francisco | Almira Bailey
British Dictionary definitions for cafeteria
/ (ˌkæfɪˈtɪərɪə) /
a self-service restaurant
Origin of cafeteria
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