self-serve
adjective
: permitting or offering self-service
self-serve gas
a self-serve farm stand
These hotels are surprisingly good—with fresh beds, flat-panel TVs, self-serve breakfast buffets and free wireless broadband.—
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Customers can redeem the free coffee at any location's self-serve coffee bar, which will feature 1960s decor.
—Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2024
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Burger chain Shake Shack signaled last year that all of its locations would have self-serve ordering kiosks by the end of 2023.
—Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
But do those hotels have a self-serve wine gallery featuring over 30 wines from around the world?
—Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2024
The outdoor lounge features two firepits, cozy outdoor seating, and an indoor tap wall offering self-serve beer, seltzer, kombucha, hard cider, wine, and mixed drinks.
—Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 11 Apr. 2024
Grammarly Grammarly does not currently offer an opt-out process for personal accounts, but self-serve business accounts can choose to opt out from having their data used to train Grammarly’s machine-learning model.
—Matt Burgess, WIRED, 10 Apr. 2024
In the Los Angeles-Long Beach metro area, a gallon of regular self-serve gasoline costs a few pennies less on average than in the rest of the state: $5.34.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2024
The concept will showcase various local offerings, from a 50-line self-serve tap wall with local brews and Sprecher soda to a mini store curated by The Waxwing (a Milwaukee shop that closed its retail location in 2020).
—Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2024
Walmart spokeswoman Kelsey Bohl said that during times of limited self-checkout access, some stores were designating select self-serve registers for Walmart+ members using the retailer’s Scan and Go app and for independent contractors who make deliveries and returns for the chain and other stores.
—Anne D'innocenzio, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2024
Related article Here’s where the minimum wage is increasing this year
Burger chain Shake Shack signaled last year that all of its locations would have self-serve ordering kiosks by the end of 2023.
—Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
But do those hotels have a self-serve wine gallery featuring over 30 wines from around the world?
—Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2024
The outdoor lounge features two firepits, cozy outdoor seating, and an indoor tap wall offering self-serve beer, seltzer, kombucha, hard cider, wine, and mixed drinks.
—Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 11 Apr. 2024
Grammarly Grammarly does not currently offer an opt-out process for personal accounts, but self-serve business accounts can choose to opt out from having their data used to train Grammarly’s machine-learning model.
—Matt Burgess, WIRED, 10 Apr. 2024
In the Los Angeles-Long Beach metro area, a gallon of regular self-serve gasoline costs a few pennies less on average than in the rest of the state: $5.34.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2024
The concept will showcase various local offerings, from a 50-line self-serve tap wall with local brews and Sprecher soda to a mini store curated by The Waxwing (a Milwaukee shop that closed its retail location in 2020).
—Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2024
Walmart spokeswoman Kelsey Bohl said that during times of limited self-checkout access, some stores were designating select self-serve registers for Walmart+ members using the retailer’s Scan and Go app and for independent contractors who make deliveries and returns for the chain and other stores.
—Anne D'innocenzio, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
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“Self-serve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-serve. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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