As nouns the difference between cafeteria and canter
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
canter is a gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four legged animals.
As a verb canter is
to move at such pace.