lunch counter

noun

|Updated on: 17 Jul 2018

Definition of lunch counter

1 : a long counter at which lunches are sold

2 : luncheonette

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Recent Examples of lunch counter from the Web

And for the folks interested in dining while shopping, the Omakase Group plans to have a small lunch counter offering a a daily cutlet sandwich.

— justin phillips, SFChronicle.com, "Japanese mega-project headed to Design District," 3 July 2018
Wallace’s own homegrown revolution was happening just blocks from the old Greyhound bus station where Freedom Riders had arrived and the site of the Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in.

— Southern Living, "This Mississippi Chef Uses Food To Tell His Family’s Story and Bring Friends Together," 17 June 2018
Sit at the lunch counter, open since 1933, and get the house-made, thin-sliced, warm West Side specialty on soft rye with mustard, pickle, lettuce and tomato.

— chicago tribune, chicagotribune.com, "Sandwiches, soups, salads and more: 20 ideas for what to eat for lunch," 17 May 2018
There are the North Carolina A&T students who peacefully protested segregation by sitting at a Whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, NC during the height of the Civil Rights movement.

— john king, Teen Vogue, "Former Secretary of Education John King on Why Colleges Need to Support Student Activism," 12 June 2018
In February 1960, a group of 29 black students from Alabama State College sat down at a lunch counter in the snack room of the Montgomery County Courthouse.

— brigit katz, Smithsonian, "58 Years Later, Alabama Clears the Records of 29 Black Students Who Protested Segregation," 5 June 2018
And the new lunch counter faithfully mimics the ’60s version.

— alia akkam, Billboard, "Nashville Remastered: Five Renovated Landmarks Generating Excitement in Music City," 5 June 2018
Four students at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro launched the sit-in movement at a nearby lunch counter.

— maya rhodan, Time, "A New Era of Protest Is Energizing Historically Black Colleges and Universities. But There Are Challenges," 22 May 2018
This was 1960 New Orleans, after all, and Jim Crow was still the law of the land in the South -- which is precisely why Oretha Castle and three other student protesters sat down at the all-white McCrory's lunch counter.

— mike scott, NOLA.com, "She sat down, but this New Orleans woman wasn't about to shut up," 8 May 2018

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