Cafeteria
noun
A place where you can buy and eat meals, and there is usually a counter where you choose the food.
We usually have lunch in the school cafeteria.
Often appears as...
- school cafeteria
- hospital cafeteria
noun
A system of serving meals in a place such as a school, in which each person collects their food on a tray and pays at the end of the counter.
The business has a cafeteria plan for its employees.
Often appears as...
- cafeteria style
- cafeteria line
noun
A flexible benefits plan that allows an employee to choose from different types of benefits.
The company offers a cafeteria plan with options like health insurance, retirement benefits, and childcare.
Often appears as...
- cafeteria benefits plan
- cafeteria compensation plan
Usage tips
Business
noun
A place where you can buy and eat meals, and there is usually a counter where you choose the food.
We usually have lunch in the school cafeteria.
Often appears as...
- school cafeteria
- hospital cafeteria
noun
A system of serving meals in a place such as a school, in which each person collects their food on a tray and pays at the end of the counter.
The business has a cafeteria plan for its employees.
Often appears as...
- cafeteria style
- cafeteria line
noun
A flexible benefits plan that allows an employee to choose from different types of benefits.
The company offers a cafeteria plan with options like health insurance, retirement benefits, and childcare.
Often appears as...
- cafeteria benefits plan
- cafeteria compensation plan
Usage tips
Business
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Social Gathering
Cafeterias are often social spaces where people eat and converse together.
Let's catch up in the cafeteria during lunch.
Pro Tip 2/3Self-service
While you choose your own food, usually no table service is offered in a cafeteria.
I picked out my lunch from the cafeteria and sat down.
Pro Tip 3/3Casual Dining
Cafeterias are casual: there's no need to dress up or reserve a table.
I grabbed a quick meal at the school cafeteria.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Gathering
Cafeterias are often social spaces where people eat and converse together.
Let's catch up in the cafeteria during lunch.
Pro Tip 2/3Self-service
While you choose your own food, usually no table service is offered in a cafeteria.
I picked out my lunch from the cafeteria and sat down.
Pro Tip 3/3Casual Dining
Cafeterias are casual: there's no need to dress up or reserve a table.
I grabbed a quick meal at the school cafeteria.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Gathering
Cafeterias are often social spaces where people eat and converse together.
Let's catch up in the cafeteria during lunch.
Pro Tip 2/3Self-service
While you choose your own food, usually no table service is offered in a cafeteria.
I picked out my lunch from the cafeteria and sat down.
Pro Tip 3/3Casual Dining
Cafeterias are casual: there's no need to dress up or reserve a table.
I grabbed a quick meal at the school cafeteria.
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Stephen Ritz: A teacher...
and window bottles out of garbage. Now I don't expect every kid to be a farmer, but I expect you to read about it, write about it, blog about it, offer outstanding customer service. I expect them to be engaged, and man, are they! So that's my incredible classroom, that's the food. Where does it go? Zero miles to plate, right down into the cafeteria. Or more importantly, to local shelters,
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Putting a Species on the...
this entire scan of the Rhino so you can see the 3d model that we came out with here and then you are as you already saw we can animate the Rhino and bring him back to life we built up a virtual Sumatran jungle to play some back end so that people could experience them in his environment and when you're done here if you go across to the cafeteria we have a
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Andy Yen: Think your...
the CERN cafeteria comes with several thousand scientists and engineers, and these guys basically know the answers to everything. So it was in this environment that we began working. What we actually want to do is we want to take your email and turn it into something that looks more like this, but more importantly, we want to do it in a way
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How math saved my life PIPE...
really didn't and so it gave me this feeling that yes I was on the right track and and learning the right way well then shortly after that I was in the cafeteria at school sitting at a table drawing and I ran into this beautiful woman and as we started talking I managed to get a conversation
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A teacher growing green...
service I expect me engage man are they so that's my incredible classroom that's the food where does it go zero miles to plate right down into the cafeteria or more importantly to local shelters where most of that keeps getting one to two meals a day and we're stepping it up no
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Juan Enriquez: A...
And the danger in this stuff is once you start normalizing absurdities and atrocities, people think that those instruments are legitimate. So you get school boards sending out letters like "Dear Parent, because your kid owes lunch money to the cafeteria,
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You may be accidentally...
but when you see the impact firsthand, day-by-day, it leaves a very deep impression. Ten years later, I'm a radiation oncologist, fully aware of the suffering caused by tobacco. I'm sitting at the hospital cafeteria, having my first ever meeting
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How much land does it...
twice the size of a cafeteria tray. Wind power would take roughly 7 square meters— about half the size of a parking space— to power the bulb. When you consider the space needed to power cities, countries, and the whole world, it adds up fast.
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David Kwong: Two nerdy...
the urge to solve. Human beings are wired to solve, to make order out of chaos. It's certainly true for me. I've been solving my whole life. High school consisted of epic Scrabble matches in the cafeteria
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Why being respectful to...
and tenderhearted with people. For him, he said it was all about these touch points, or these daily interactions he had with employees, whether in the hallway, in the cafeteria or in meetings.
Video examples
Stephen Ritz: A teacher...
and window bottles out of garbage. Now I don't expect every kid to be a farmer, but I expect you to read about it, write about it, blog about it, offer outstanding customer service. I expect them to be engaged, and man, are they! So that's my incredible classroom, that's the food. Where does it go? Zero miles to plate, right down into the cafeteria. Or more importantly, to local shelters,
Video examples
Putting a Species on the...
this entire scan of the Rhino so you can see the 3d model that we came out with here and then you are as you already saw we can animate the Rhino and bring him back to life we built up a virtual Sumatran jungle to play some back end so that people could experience them in his environment and when you're done here if you go across to the cafeteria we have a
Video examples
Andy Yen: Think your...
the CERN cafeteria comes with several thousand scientists and engineers, and these guys basically know the answers to everything. So it was in this environment that we began working. What we actually want to do is we want to take your email and turn it into something that looks more like this, but more importantly, we want to do it in a way
Video examples
How math saved my life PIPE...
really didn't and so it gave me this feeling that yes I was on the right track and and learning the right way well then shortly after that I was in the cafeteria at school sitting at a table drawing and I ran into this beautiful woman and as we started talking I managed to get a conversation
Video examples
A teacher growing green...
service I expect me engage man are they so that's my incredible classroom that's the food where does it go zero miles to plate right down into the cafeteria or more importantly to local shelters where most of that keeps getting one to two meals a day and we're stepping it up no
Video examples
Juan Enriquez: A...
And the danger in this stuff is once you start normalizing absurdities and atrocities, people think that those instruments are legitimate. So you get school boards sending out letters like "Dear Parent, because your kid owes lunch money to the cafeteria,
Video examples
You may be accidentally...
but when you see the impact firsthand, day-by-day, it leaves a very deep impression. Ten years later, I'm a radiation oncologist, fully aware of the suffering caused by tobacco. I'm sitting at the hospital cafeteria, having my first ever meeting
Video examples
How much land does it...
twice the size of a cafeteria tray. Wind power would take roughly 7 square meters— about half the size of a parking space— to power the bulb. When you consider the space needed to power cities, countries, and the whole world, it adds up fast.
Video examples
David Kwong: Two nerdy...
the urge to solve. Human beings are wired to solve, to make order out of chaos. It's certainly true for me. I've been solving my whole life. High school consisted of epic Scrabble matches in the cafeteria
Video examples
Why being respectful to...
and tenderhearted with people. For him, he said it was all about these touch points, or these daily interactions he had with employees, whether in the hallway, in the cafeteria or in meetings.
Example 1 of 10
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Vivek Murthy
American Public Servant
I have experienced loneliness at many, many points in my life and felt this profound sense of shame about it - all the years when I was a child that I struggled with feeling lonely when I was scared to go to school and petrified of walking into the elementary school cafeteria because I was worried I wouldn't have anyone to sit with.
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Harvey V. Fineberg
Educator
I spend so much of my day at work. I would like to have the workplace be part of a healthier strategy. Reminding me more about walking the steps rather than taking that elevator. Not just promoting healthier food in the cafeteria, but providing information on healthier choices. I use it when I look at the alternatives.
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Steven Spielberg
American Director
Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
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Lady Gaga
American Singer
If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.
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George Will
Journalist
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
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Zach Galifianakis
American Actor
When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.
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Poppy
American Musician
We need to not pay attention to those stupid kids who would drop their food trays on me in the cafeteria. Because, you know what? They don't matter anymore.
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Jeannette Walls
American Writer
Once I became the editor of the school newspaper, I had a key to the school, and I went to the school cafeteria and just took the food they threw away.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.
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Ali Wong
American Actress
Breastfeeding is this savage ritual that just reminds you that your body is a cafeteria now.
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Vivek Murthy
American Public Servant
I have experienced loneliness at many, many points in my life and felt this profound sense of shame about it - all the years when I was a child that I struggled with feeling lonely when I was scared to go to school and petrified of walking into the elementary school cafeteria because I was worried I wouldn't have anyone to sit with.
Quote examples
Harvey V. Fineberg
Educator
I spend so much of my day at work. I would like to have the workplace be part of a healthier strategy. Reminding me more about walking the steps rather than taking that elevator. Not just promoting healthier food in the cafeteria, but providing information on healthier choices. I use it when I look at the alternatives.
Quote examples
Steven Spielberg
American Director
Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
Quote examples
Lady Gaga
American Singer
If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.
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George Will
Journalist
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
Quote examples
Zach Galifianakis
American Actor
When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.
Quote examples
Poppy
American Musician
We need to not pay attention to those stupid kids who would drop their food trays on me in the cafeteria. Because, you know what? They don't matter anymore.
Quote examples
Jeannette Walls
American Writer
Once I became the editor of the school newspaper, I had a key to the school, and I went to the school cafeteria and just took the food they threw away.
Quote examples
P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.
Quote examples
Ali Wong
American Actress
Breastfeeding is this savage ritual that just reminds you that your body is a cafeteria now.
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