Meaning of cafeteria | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Uncommon spelling of cafeteria.
   alt-of, uncommon
2. café, coffee shop, coffeehouse
3. Rare spelling of cafeteria.
   alt-of, rare
4. A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat.
   Canada, US
5. A dining area in an institution where meals may be purchased (as above), provided, or brought in from elsewhere.
   Canada, US
6. diner

Equivalents

Examples

“Monday evening May 5, is the date for the May Campus luncheon given annually by the Y. W. C. A. This is served in cafétéria style and is much enjoyed by the entire student body and many town people.”

“Waiting in line for the cafétéria in the transit centres at Creteil, a southern suburb of Paris, is a 24-year-old chemistry student.”

“Residences, cafétérias”

“With the exception of cafétérias and self-service restaurants, most eateries take credit cards.”

“Once inside and taking heed of the directions of their informative guide Rosemary, Charlotte turned her gaze from the wonderful display of leather handbags, gloves, and perfumes on the beauty counter and followed Daisy and the others onto the escalator going up to the cafétéria floor. / The selection of drinks in the cafétéria was extensive.”

“We now had the whole day on our hands, and we wandered aimlessly around the town until we found a cafétéria tucked away in a side alley near the town centre.”

“French school cafétéria food is amazing with tasty, hot meals every day. To enter the cafétéria you have to put your hand into a fingerprint scanner. It checks whether you’ve paid for your lunches for the month. / Every year group enters the cafétéria at a different time and it rotates.”

“The general arrangement of our mess hall, scullery, and kitchen made it easy to provide for a caféteria service.”

“The caféteria and kitchen are in the basement, which, since the land falls away in the rear, is entirely open to light and air.”

“A lunch room recently equipped by the Students’ Association at the Harvard Medical School has been turned over to the Union to be operated on the caféteria plan.”

“The lunch room will feed 1,800 students, boys and girls separately, in 30 minutes, on the caféteria plan.”

“Bonuses, rest rooms, showers, caféterias, etc. are hardly known to exist, and a large percentage of the public feels that a mill is a place where an employe works long hours of back-breaking work for small wages and under very poor working conditions.”

“A distinctive type of lighting fitting has been put on the market by Messrs. Harcourts, Ltd., which is particularly suitable for restaurants, cafés, quick-lunch bars, caféterias, etc.”

“These Societies—784 with 102,701 members, Turnover amounting to Gold £5,197,210, Share Capital to Gold £672,949, and Reserves to Gold £880,456—include Building and Housing Societies, Workers’ Clubs, Emporiums, Health Societies, Mutual Aid Societies, Pharmacies, Co-operative Libraries and Publishing Societies, Artisans’ Societies, Transportation Society (Bus Company), Caféterias, etc., and thus represent a great variety of activities.”

“The industry is composed of a variety of establishments ranging from caféterias, to caterers, camp feeding operations, fine dining rooms, fast-food operations, and hotel food service outlets, to name just a few.”

“After the 1957 Anti-Rightist campaign, there was no way she could be an enterprise manager, and she was eventually assigned to work in the caféteria of the People’s Political Consultative Congress activity center. She immediately began to dedicate the same kind of managerial energy to running the caféteria. Not only did she help to set up a managerial system for the caféteria, she designed and ordered kitchen utensils, and personally made the Sichuan-style pickled vegetables. She converted this caféteria into a good place for Congress members to get a little good food during the years of famine that followed the Great Leap Forward.”

“Most restaurants and caféterias will offer a broadly similar menu of Polish standards, kicking off with a solid repertoire of soups.”

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