Thesaurus results for CAFETERIA

cafeteria

noun

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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Recent Examples of cafeteria The complaint alleges that during lunch, Barney’s students had to sit on the far side of the cafeteria, separated from the other kindergarten classes. —

Chaewon Chung june 9, Sacbee.com, 9 June 2026 Repair experts waited behind long cafeteria tables to teach alternatives, giving people chances to learn that flawed goods aren’t automatically junk. —

Michael Weissenstein, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026 Artifacts collected over the past 200 years are displayed throughout the historic 4,900-square-foot space that formerly served as a cafeteria/event space for distillery employees. —

Colleen McNally Arnett, Southern Living, 9 June 2026 Repair experts waited behind long cafeteria tables to teach alternatives, giving people chances to learn that flawed goods aren’t automatically junk. —

ABC News, 7 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for cafeteria

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The sisters threw items at the employee, chased her through the restaurant, hit her with pots and pans, attempted to throw hot grease on her head and threatened to kill her, according to prosecutors.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
Plenty of restaurants in New York are preposterously expensive, and Marcel is, too—a cocktail alone can run more than forty bucks—but the restaurant pulls off the much rarer trick of feeling actually rich.

— Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 14 June 2026