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noun

Cafeteria n.

A restaurant or café at which the patrons serve themselves with food kept at a counter, typically paying a cashier at the end of the counter and taking the food to tables to eat. (U. S.)

A room within a building functioning in the same manner as a cafeteria (1). In certain organizations, as schools, the food may be provided gratis.

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Etymology of 'Cafeteria'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cafeteria" Quotes from Famous Books

... fifteen minutes was at the scene. It was too much like the others to go into detail about; a six-foot portable safe had suddenly disappeared right in front of the eyes of the office staff of The Epicure, a huge restaurant and cafeteria that fed five thousand people three times a day. In its place stood a ragged, rusty old Ford coupe body. He went away from there, shaking ...

— The Einstein See-Saw • Miles John Breuer

Words linked to "Cafeteria" : eating house, automat, eatery, eating place