cafeteria orig. U.S.
(kæfəˈtɪərɪə)
[a. Amer.- Sp. cafeter{iacu}a coffee-shop.]
A coffee-house; a restaurant, esp. now a self-service restaurant.
| 1839 J. L. Stephens Trav. Russian & Turkish Emp. I. 157 Every third shop, almost, being a cafteria [sic] where a parcel of huge turbanded fellows were at their daily labours of smoking pipes and drinking coffee. 1894 Lakeside Directory Chicago 2188 Cafetiria Catering Co. 45 Lake. 1895 Ibid. 2231 ‘Cafetiria’, 46 Lake, 80 Adams, 108 Quincy and 93 Vanburen. 1896 Chicago Tribune 28 June 4/1 Gerbach used to be a waiter in a West Side restaurant subsequent to his employment by the cafeteria company. 1912 Jrnl. Home Economics IV. 245 Exactly the same menu was served in a large college dining room and at the cafeteria. 1916 H. Newmark Sixty Years in S. Calif. x. 133 Then came the cafeter{iacu}a... It was rather a place for drinking than for eating, and in this respect the name had little of the meaning current in parts of Mexico to-day, where a cafeter{iacu}a is a small restaurant serving ordinary alcoholic drinks and plain meals. 1923 Mod. Lang. Notes Mar. 188 Every one knows by this time that a cafeteria is a ‘help yourself’ restaurant. 1925 Glasgow Herald 30 July, Cafeterias, although a commonplace in America, are just beginning to have a hold in Paris. 1958 Oxf. Mag. 8 May 410/2 Breakfast and lunch are served cafeteria style in Hall... How many colleges eat cafeteria-wise? |