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cafeterie
noun 2
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2CAFETERIE + NOUN
employs, francisco, non-union, plate, san
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noun
1
Cafeteria.
There is no "diner," so we get off the train for breakfast, and have some more cafeterie experience. A plate, knife and fork are provided, the rest you are expected to do for yourself, pay your bill and depart.
1909, Harvester World, International Harvester Company of America, Vol. 1, p. 28, https://books.google.ca/books?id=kzs2AQAAMAAJ&q=%22cafeterie%22&dq=%22cafeterie%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjkq5uJ5cHNAhVGHGMKHZDXBL44ZBDoAQiXAzBF A central kitchen serves a cafeterie, seating two hundred; a café, seating seventy; and a lunch counter with stools for forty.
2
Pantry, stillroom.
It appeared that the cafeterie was the very lowest post in the hotel, and a dreadful come-down for a waiter […]
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There is no "diner," so we get off the train for breakfast, and have some more cafeterie experience. A plate, knife and fork are provided, the rest you are expected to do for yourself, pay your bill a
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1909, Harvester World, International Harvester Company of America, Vol. 1, p. 28, https://books.google.ca/books?id=kzs2AQAAMAAJ&q=%22cafeterie%22&dq=%22cafeterie%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjkq5uJ5cHNAhV
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In front of a cafeterie in San Francisco I saw a donkey carrying sandwich-boards upon which was lettered the legend, “This Cafeterie employs non-union labor. Do not patronize it!”
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