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Some stores stay open, even with fewer workers and customers
With the earlier threat of federal agents turning out to be false alarm, things pick up a bit by midday at the Sav/Way, where the bustling lunch counter is serving up massive tortas piled impossibly high with meat and jalapeños.
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Andy Rose, CNN Money, 21 Nov. 2025
From the basement lunch counter at J.L. Hudson’s to the city’s beloved Coney Island spots and the white-tablecloth elegance of the Caucus Club where a young Barbra Streisand once sang, these institutions reflect the many ways Detroiters gathered to eat, talk and celebrate.
—Elissa Robinson, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Zachary Huerta walks behind the lunch counter at recess to take another chocolate milk.
—Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
In the daytime, the cocktail bar is filled with light from floor-to-ceiling windows commanding a view of 5th Avenue and the historic Woolworth building, where, as a student, John Lewis led lunch counter sit-ins.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
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Andy Rose, CNN Money, 21 Nov. 2025
From the basement lunch counter at J.L. Hudson’s to the city’s beloved Coney Island spots and the white-tablecloth elegance of the Caucus Club where a young Barbra Streisand once sang, these institutions reflect the many ways Detroiters gathered to eat, talk and celebrate.
—Elissa Robinson, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Zachary Huerta walks behind the lunch counter at recess to take another chocolate milk.
—Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
In the daytime, the cocktail bar is filled with light from floor-to-ceiling windows commanding a view of 5th Avenue and the historic Woolworth building, where, as a student, John Lewis led lunch counter sit-ins.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lunch counter
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Plus a snack bar, a few arcade games and plenty of space for kids to run around.—
Marcus Thompson II,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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The old mill in the Christmas Market at Tivoli Gardens, which functions as a snack bar.—
Tamara Shopsin,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Hialeah Police are investigating a shooting that sent one person to the hospital Sunday morning near a popular neighborhood cafeteria.—
Zachary Bynum,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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On the morning of December 10, 2024, Armas was abducted from a cafeteria in eastern Caracas.—
Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
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Washington Post food critic Elazar Sontag entertains your restaurant questions, rants and raves.—
Elazar Sontag,
Washington Post,
14 Jan. 2026
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Over the years, Grains and Taps has expanded from selling local and worldwide beer selections to offering their own brews, opened a second location at Pine Tree Plaza and added a restaurant.—
Janice Phelan,
Kansas City Star,
8 Jan. 2026
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Geraldine Timms, a high school lunchroom worker in Chicago, is frequently credited with the idea, offering a solution to a glut of sauerkraut that school systems found themselves with in the 1960s.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
28 Dec. 2025
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The district decided staff reduction was its path forward, trimming positions at the central office, lunchroom monitors, assistant High school principals, campus clerical positions, and teachers.—
Marvin Hurst,
CBS News,
18 Dec. 2025
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“Lunch counter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lunch%20counter. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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