cafeteria

Vegetarian food is served cafeteria style and in practice if not by decree, eaten slowly, putting down the fork between bites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 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

For one thing, the end of the school year results in some school employees such as bus drivers and cafeteria workers applying for unemployment benefits.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

“Well, I like to use the cafeteria as an example,” she said, pointing to where it used to be.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

She missed her teachers, and the smell of her old schoolbooks, and even the cafeteria food.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

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

Post-primary pupils face price rises of 19% on food they buy from school cafeterias, while pre-school prices will also go up.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025

As someone who grew up with rock ’n’ roll, the hyper-amplified early Philip Glass Ensemble, and really noisy cafeterias, I was unbothered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025

Still, vegan meals are hardly the default in California cafeterias, and in many places, they're unheard of.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2024

For example, two years later, all the school cafeterias in town were serving delicious food at least four days a week, all because of Nick the Consumer.

From "Frindle" by Andrew Clements