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Cafeteria vs Catering - What's the difference?

cafeteria | catering |

As nouns the difference between cafeteria and catering

is that cafeteria is a restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat while catering is {{cx|uncountable|UK|lang=en}} The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.

As a verb catering is

present participle of lang=en.

cafeteria

English

Noun

(wikipedia cafeteria) (en noun)
  • A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat
  • A dining area in an institution where meals may be purchased (as above) or brought in from elsewhere

    • Related terms

    * caf * , cafe

    Synonyms

    * lunchroom * (dining area in an institution) canteen

    catering

    English

    (wikipedia catering)

    Noun

  • The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.
  • The business of providing such services for special occasions.
  • The act of one who caters (to something).
  • * 1864 , J. D. White, John Hugh McQuillen, George Jacob Ziegler, The Dental Cosmos
    • Professional jealousies are always confined to the more ignorant; and education alone will enable us to rise above our catchpenny caterings to the prejudices and jealousies of the uninformed.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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