Restaurant vs Cafeteria - What's the difference?
restaurant | cafeteria |
An eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables.
* {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
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 restaurant and cafeteria
is that restaurant is an eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables while cafeteria is a restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat.restaurant
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(en noun)George Goodchild
