cafeteria
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That cafeteria approach to fare pricing came out of post-pandemic air-travel lessons, at least in part.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
All 400 seats in the sweltering auditorium were filled, with an additional 300 people in the cafeteria.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Foreign guests of the regime enjoyed a privileged diet of fruits, vegetables and cheeses while in the school cafeteria she and her students met with “starch, grease and gruel.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 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
“The meeting is in the library at three thirty sharp,” I tell the kids waiting in line at the used-tray return in the cafeteria.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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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
An insidious bullying tactic is creeping into school cafeterias across the country: Kids are snapping and sharing photos of other students eating lunch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
At UC hospitals, union members work in cafeterias, as radiology technologists and as nurse’s aides, among other roles.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
The strange scenes played out on the TV news each night—Khrushchev cracking jokes with farmers, chowing down in corporate cafeterias, watching a movie being filmed in a Hollywood studio.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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