Diner vs Cafeteria - What's the difference?
diner | cafeteria |
One who dines, an eater.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= * (Calvin Trillin) (1935-)
A dining car in a railroad train.
* Richard Gutman
A typically small restaurant, usually modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other, and often decorated in pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades.
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
As nouns the difference between diner and cafeteria
is that diner is dinner, evening meal while cafeteria is cafeteria.As a verb diner
is to dine.diner
English
Noun
(wikipedia diner) (en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
- When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
- The diner is everybody's kitchen.