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Example sentences for "cafeteria"

Lexicographically close words:
caesural; caetera; caeteris; cafe; cafes; cafeterias; caffe; caffein; caffeine; caftan
  1. In Boulder we found The Boulderado a delightful place in which to lodge, and the Quality Cafeteria a place for admirably cooked food.

  2. We found a delightful cafeteria known as the Clock Tower Cafeteria, kept by two women, and with most appetizing home cooking.

  3. You can purchase pies and soup and fruit, hash and stew, coffee and tea, cafeteria style.

  4. We had round tables seating from eight to ten at a table, table cloths and cafeteria style of getting one's food.

  5. They are cafeteria wise, they have a cafeteria class consciousness.

  6. It is said that in time they acquire a cafeteria shuffle which one can detect even on the street.

  7. Those who are cafeteria wise can choose a good meal for 28 cents or 33 cents at the most.

  8. Irvin Cobb says that this is the cafeteria belt of which Los Angeles is the buckle.

  9. But cafeterias are very fine for those who have cafeteria sense.

  10. In October of that year a private cafeteria was started by two women with a record of successful cafeteria experience behind them.

  11. To an unusual degree the success of Our Cooperative Cafeteria is bound up with its management, not only because it is technically expert, but because it is thoroughly imbued with the cooperative spirit.

  12. Around the first nucleus has grown a staff of intelligent young men and women, usually college bred, who are devoting all their brains and energy to see that this cooperative cafeteria succeeds.

  13. Like other cooperatives, the cafeteria has found the need for expert and trained workers in place of the hard-pressed volunteer.

  14. The cafeteria had from the outset advantages which are gained by many cooperatives only after bitter and costly experience.

  15. This interest of the paid employees in things other than mere technical efficiency contributes much to that friendly spirit which makes Our Cooperative Cafeteria unique among the restaurants of New York.

  16. The cafeteria now employs sixty-eight workers, most of whom are shareholders and vote as such in membership meetings.

  17. If you should drop in for lunch at any one of the three branches of our Cooperative Cafeteria in New York City the first thing that would strike you would be the friendly spirit of those back of the serving tables.

  18. The new owners took over the cafeteria and the former owners became their hired employees.

  19. Ken waited in the doorway adjoining the cafeteria until, a few minutes later, the man came out and moved purposefully toward the corner.

  20. Up ahead, apparently waiting for someone at the cafeteria entrance, stood the man whose broken watch crystal Sam Morris had repaired on Christmas Eve.

  21. As he neared the cafeteria where he had stopped for breakfast, Ken gave a start.

  22. He still had the surprised expression he had worn ever since the man first appeared at the cafeteria entrance.

  23. She could obtain more for her fifteen or twenty cents at the cafeteria in the next block, but that fact only made her more eager to lunch at the Evergreen.

  24. Granny is too excited, and I'm too excited, to get dinner, and we don't like the cafeteria at the corner.

  25. Our ceramic friend was faced with kissing his investment goodbye--and probably with making a job in the pottery for a good restaurant man--with throwing good money after bad, or with getting into the cafeteria business.

  26. Judged from every outward appearance, the cafeteria was up to standard.

  27. It's a skeleton of what the cafeteria man did.

  28. Today, as he still dabbles at feeding people, he will admit that he's a better ceramic manufacturer as a result of his cafeteria experience.

  29. He's still a very successful ceramic manufacturer--and a cafeteria proprietor.

  30. With his "knowledge of the business," he should have made a success of this cafeteria of his.

  31. The important thing, anyway, is not what he found had to be done in the cafeteria and in the pottery, but HOW he found it.

  32. It also happens to be the cafeteria where I like to eat, where you can get all you want for a dollar there, and it is a very good meal.

  33. I was having, at the time of the assassination I was at work, of course, but at the time of the assassination I was in the cafeteria associated with the bowling alley having lunch.

  34. This one of the cafeteria there is not exactly at the right spot.

  35. She possessed a little talking machine with sentimental records, and on Sundays she went to a cafeteria for a good, hearty meal unless cousins asked her to their establishment.

  36. Whereat they had a farewell dance and moved on to the moving-picture world, where they held hands and stared vapidly at the films, repairing to a cafeteria on a side street for a lunch, and then to the Faithful parlour.

  37. The whimsical notion occurred to Ward that he might post Brophy on the advantages of a cafeteria plan of operating his hostelry.

  38. The cafeteria was just off lower Broadway, and she smiled.

  39. He hated to admit, as he stood there in the drizzle, his defeat by a cafeteria check.

  40. The Harmony Cafeteria advertises, "Eat the Harmony Way.

  41. Although Mrs. Elizabeth Hash has retired from the hotel business, Mrs. Peter Lunch has undertaken to manage the Metropole cafeteria in Fargo, N.

  42. Thirty Days' Menus for a Cafeteria The careful manager spends a great deal of time in menu planning.

  43. The cafeteria counter displaying a buff-colored pie, snow pudding, rice custard and yellow cake does not tempt patrons to buy.

  44. For reasons that are obvious, the purpose of the high school cafeteria is very different from that of the metropolitan hotel, while neither of these has the same object as the municipal tuberculosis sanitarium.

  45. In the cafeteria or other institution using a la carte service the left-over problem is not so serious.

  46. That is, the cafeteria can serve a large variety of dishes because the patrons wait on themselves.

  47. Cafeteria fashion, the long line passed, choosing what to put on their trays, and oh, the noise, within the concrete floors and walls!

  48. He would have to eat in the plant cafeteria again.

  49. The sight of the food in the cafeteria reminded him all over again that he was spending too much money.

  50. A feeling began to grow in him that, somehow, the cafeteria was wrong.

  51. He went with the young man, whose name he learned was Johnny Calvert, and had dinner with him at the cafeteria where they had met at noon.

  52. He was edging his way down the long food counter, collecting his lunch of rice pudding, milk and whole-wheat bread in a cafeteria on Hill Street.

  53. Everybody in the cafeteria was looking at their table.

  54. All the talking in the cafeteria stopped and Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Stogbuchner came hurrying over to the table.

  55. One of the women who worked in the cafeteria brought over a mop to clean up the spilled food, and everybody who had been sitting next to the windows moved to different seats.

  56. The class went down the hall to the cafeteria and Baartock waited in lunch line to get a container of milk and an apple.

  57. Also, check the cafeteria at a local factory or processing plant.

  58. If you're near a college campus, see if the food service people at the student cafeteria would be willing to make the vegetables or other side dishes.

  59. First, the presenting of home economics as a part of a liberal education; and second, the development of courses leading to a profession in teaching, dietetics, and cafeteria management.

  60. I ate at the cafeteria at work and on the way home I would stop at the White Tower to get a bowl of soup.

  61. I ate my dinner at the hospital cafeteria after work each night and had TV dinners or ate out on the weekends.

  62. The serving was cafeteria style and 2,000 could be seated at a time.

  63. I never thought of this being a girls' seminary, but if I wasn't so busy with my cafeteria I might take up the question," she concluded.

  64. In the cafeteria at breakfast and lunch, thirty-eight men out of the forty-eight aboard ship had taken more than his norm of stimulant.

  65. The portrait of this successful man was borne swiftly to the cafeteria where its present owner lavishly heaped a tray with excellent food and hastened with it to a table.

  66. After making the unhappy discovery in the cafeteria that his appetite could not be hoodwinked by the clumsy subterfuge of calling coffee and rolls a breakfast some six hours previously, he went boldly down to stand before his home.

  67. He still mumbled as he indicated a choice of foods at the cafeteria counter; he continued to be thus absorbed as he found a table near the centre of the room.

  68. Sitting in the cafeteria listening to strange talk, lashed by cruel memories, it had flashed upon his vision with the stark definition of a screened subtitle.

  69. It was late in the afternoon when he left the cafeteria and the cheerful activities of the lot were drawing to a close.

  70. Go to Mother Haggin's, that cafeteria just outside the gate.

  71. From sheer force of association, as he thus meditated, he found himself hungry, and a few moments later he was selecting from the food counter of the cafeteria whatever chanced to appeal to the eye--no weighing of prices now.

  72. On another day of long waits they ate their lunch from the cafeteria box on the steps of the little home and discussed stage names.

  73. She had not asked permission of the table's other occupant, indeed she had not even glanced at him, for cafeteria etiquette is not rigorous.

  74. Here he lighted matches, thoughtfully appropriated that morning from the cafeteria counter.

  75. Further, he would eat in the cafeteria in evening dress, his make-up still on, like a real actor.

  76. Twenty cents would not buy a shave, but it would buy at the cafeteria something more needful to any one but a fop.

  77. In the most sumptuous cafeteria he knew of, one patronized only in his first careless days of opulence, he ate for a long time.

  78. The new Big Trees Lodge in the upper grove is located in a beautiful grove of sequoias, 20 to 30 feet in diameter, and affords excellent accommodations, with cafeteria service available to all.

  79. George turned on his heel and put his head down and bulled out the door, slamming it behind him so that the mail slot rattled and the glass shook and a stack of nice melamine cafeteria trays fell off a shelf and clattered to the ground.

  80. Bradley caught up with Alan on their lunch break, at the cafeteria in the high school two blocks from the elementary school.

  81. Alan ate lunch with him once he reached the first grade and started eating in the cafeteria with the rest of the non-kindergartners.

  82. But he step by step has been taken, from what the reports said--that he was on the sixth floor, and then they saw him in the cafeteria drinking a Coca Cola, and the President came.

  83. The cafeteria was located in a separate, or perhaps a wing of this large dormitory building.


  84. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cafeteria" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    buffet; cafe; cafeteria; canteen; cantina; diner; grill; kitchen; lunchroom; mess; restaurant; tavern