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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Sheetz Any size self-serve hot or ice coffee is free on Monday and Tuesday with any purchase.
—Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 26 Sep. 2025
In addition to remodels, smaller touches have been integrated like bringing back self-serve milk and sugar stations as well doodles on coffee cups.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
What he’s been up to: Starbucks’s self-serve condiment bars are back, as are comfy chairs and ceramic mugs in some locations.
—Molly Liebergall, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
Trying to feed more people faster, Bob put out self-serve condiments and handed out plain dogs for folks to fix up themselves.
—Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025
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Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 26 Sep. 2025
In addition to remodels, smaller touches have been integrated like bringing back self-serve milk and sugar stations as well doodles on coffee cups.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
What he’s been up to: Starbucks’s self-serve condiment bars are back, as are comfy chairs and ceramic mugs in some locations.
—Molly Liebergall, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
Trying to feed more people faster, Bob put out self-serve condiments and handed out plain dogs for folks to fix up themselves.
—Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for self-serve
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“Self-serve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-serve. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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