cafeterie

plural cafeteries

1. datedCafeteria.

   In front of a cafeterie in San Francisco I saw a donkey carrying sandwich-boards upon which was lettered the legend, “This Cafeterie employs non-union labor. Do not patronize it!”

   1911, The Philistine, a Periodical of Protest, volume 33, page 10

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   There is no "diner," so we get off the train for breakfast, and have some more cafeterie experience. A plate, knife and fork are provided, the rest you are expected to do for yourself, pay your bill and depart.

   1907, Laura A. Taylor, Three Westerners Abroad, page 46

   1909, Harvester World, International Harvester Company of America, Vol. 1, p. 28, https://books.google.ca/books?id=kzs2AQAAMAAJ&q=%22cafeterie%22&dq=%22cafeterie%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjkq5uJ5cHNAhVGHGMKHZDXBL44ZBDoAQiXAzBF A central kitchen serves a cafeterie, seating two hundred; a café, seating seventy; and a lunch counter with stools for forty.

2. datedPantry, stillroom.

   It appeared that the cafeterie was the very lowest post in the hotel, and a dreadful come-down for a waiter […]

   1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter IX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC