salad bar

noun

: a self-service counter (as in a restaurant) featuring an array of salad makings and dressings

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This new guidance moves beyond just coffee, soda, water and food leftover containers and will allow additional forms of reuse, like permitting customers to use their own multi-use containers at salad bars or when ordering food from a food truck if the container is clean and sanitized. Kelley Dennings, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2026 The vegetables also fill the cafeteria salad bar and are given to families of Maker students. Chris Wragge, CBS News, 12 June 2026 The Reuben sandwich may or may not have been invented in Omaha (New York lays claim to it, too), and the city’s iconic restaurants are mostly steak houses, such as the Drover, a sixty-year-old Midwestern time capsule with a full salad bar and whiskey-marinated fillets. Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 8 June 2026 Its salad bars and baked potatoes in the 1980s were the start of healthier options on fast-food menus. Bob Vitale, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for salad bar

Word History

First Known Use

1937, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of salad bar was in 1937

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“Salad bar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salad%20bar. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.

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salad bar

noun
: a self-service counter in a restaurant featuring a selection of salad makings and dressings
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