cafeteria

I’m eating on the plane, and it’s usually a very cafeteria kind of thing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

“I make a motion to appoint myself,” Verdugo said last week from a folding chair in an elementary-school cafeteria, looking out at dozens of constituents perched awkwardly on low kid-size benches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

SpaceX’s compensation philosophy historically favored equity over cash salaries, so this windfall extends well beyond executives and engineers to include nontechnical staff, entry-level workers and even cafeteria employees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Army would set up a table inside the cafeteria of our high school where they would recruit these kids—not even young men and women—into the service.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2026

Inside, I started shedding layers, stuffing them into my backpack as I headed for the cafeteria to wait for the first bell.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

School cafeterias are a common place for bullying to occur, she says, because the student-to-staff ratio is much higher than in a classroom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

Restaurants and cafeterias have also been locked up as owners take precautionary measures.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025

That law will prevent popular snack foods like Flamin’ Hot Cheetos from being stocked in school vending machines or cafeterias when it goes into effect on Dec. 31, 2027.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2025

The protests against Kellogg's ingredients list come after the passage of the California School Food Safety Act, which bans six artificial food dyes most commonly found in foods served in school cafeterias across the state.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2024

The sit-ins to desegregate restaurants and cafeterias that were now taking place across the South had originated in Greensboro.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson