cafeteria
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"The building is falling apart, the cafeteria is too small. There's zero budget, zero resources, not enough supervisors," Raphael said.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
In “Let Them Eat Goo,” South Park Elementary decides to replace its cafeteria meat with a plant-based substitute after Cartman suffers two heart attacks.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
A 2016 draft master plan earmarks the building as a veteran multipurpose union with a cafeteria as an alternate use.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
CEO Arthur Lih believes every school should have them in the cafeteria, the nurse’s office, the principal’s office and the physical education department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
They broke for lunch in the dining commons, which was more like a nice restaurant than a typical office cafeteria, but they were all too nervous to enjoy the meal.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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Across Israel, a schnitzel sandwich like this one, sometimes served with Yemeni zhug or Iraqi amba, is everywhere from bus stations to school cafeterias.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Cook is regularly spotted walking the halls of Apple Park or grabbing lunch at one of Apple’s Caffè Mac cafeterias.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
Yet schools have many fixed costs, such as maintaining, repairing, heating and cooling school buildings, operating cafeterias and managing many administrative functions that cannot easily be scaled down when enrollment declines inevitably reduce funding.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 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
I slept with blacks in the same dormitory, ate meals with them in the same cafeterias.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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