cafeteria-style
adjective
caf·e·te·ria-style
ˌka-fə-ˈtir-ē-ə-ˌstī(-ə)l 
: cafeteria
cafeteria-style benefits
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The visitation room Warden Jerry Goodwin escorted us into is large, square, and filled with cafeteria-style tables.
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Longreads, 8 July 2025
Inside the building, images showed metal plates of uneaten food on cafeteria-style tables – with a wall now blown out from the impact.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 12 June 2025
In Kansas City, providers are planning patient care while facing each other across narrow, cafeteria-style tables in a large, open space, according to staff members.
—Ellen Barry, New York Times, 4 May 2025
The Sojourn includes two to three meals a day, served cafeteria-style at communal tables.
—Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Set up tents, arts and crafts stations, and a cafeteria-style buffet.
—Maggie Griswold, StyleCaster, 1 Apr. 2025
The pair produced the idea after watching the demand grow for their hot chicken in Bishop’s Meat & 3, a cafeteria-style restaurant that Nick Bishop Sr. opened in Franklin years before.
—Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 10 Feb. 2025
Bare launched the restaurant in fall 2023 as a cafeteria-style eatery, later switching to a more traditional counter-ordering model.
—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025
In the '80s, cafeteria-style benefits were all the rage.
—Tim Pratte, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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Longreads, 8 July 2025
Inside the building, images showed metal plates of uneaten food on cafeteria-style tables – with a wall now blown out from the impact.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 12 June 2025
In Kansas City, providers are planning patient care while facing each other across narrow, cafeteria-style tables in a large, open space, according to staff members.
—Ellen Barry, New York Times, 4 May 2025
The Sojourn includes two to three meals a day, served cafeteria-style at communal tables.
—Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Set up tents, arts and crafts stations, and a cafeteria-style buffet.
—Maggie Griswold, StyleCaster, 1 Apr. 2025
The pair produced the idea after watching the demand grow for their hot chicken in Bishop’s Meat & 3, a cafeteria-style restaurant that Nick Bishop Sr. opened in Franklin years before.
—Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 10 Feb. 2025
Bare launched the restaurant in fall 2023 as a cafeteria-style eatery, later switching to a more traditional counter-ordering model.
—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025
In the '80s, cafeteria-style benefits were all the rage.
—Tim Pratte, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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