as in restaurant
a place where people get food at a counter and carry it to a table for eating
The restaurant resembled a school cafeteria.
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Like the face-to-face collaboration benefits lost at GISS, employees fear shutting down Goddard's cafeteria will be stifling.
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Josh Dinner, Space.com, 31 Oct. 2025
The cafeteria smelled the same.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
Regions with a strong military presence are reeling Last March, restauranteur Fran Bolden opened a cafeteria at the Redstone Arsenal, a US Army base near Huntsville, Alabama.
—Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Nearly 5,000 employees, from cafeteria workers to nuclear physicists, had remained at their posts to keep the facility running safely.
—Simon Shuster, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
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Washington Post food critic Elazar Sontag entertains your restaurant questions, rants and raves.—
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Over the years, Grains and Taps has expanded from selling local and worldwide beer selections to offering their own brews, opened a second location at Pine Tree Plaza and added a restaurant.—
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The dish is especially appealing for diners who prefer savory grits over sweet grits.—
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Photos of diners fill nearly every inch of the shop, documenting years of regulars and first-time visitors alike.—
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Geraldine Timms, a high school lunchroom worker in Chicago, is frequently credited with the idea, offering a solution to a glut of sauerkraut that school systems found themselves with in the 1960s.—
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The district decided staff reduction was its path forward, trimming positions at the central office, lunchroom monitors, assistant High school principals, campus clerical positions, and teachers.—
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“Cafeteria.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cafeteria. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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