Definitions for: Cafeteria

[n] a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier

Webster (1913) Definition: Caf`e*te"ri*a, n. [Cf. F. cafeti[`e]re.]
A restaurant or caf['e] at which the patrons serve themselves
with food kept at a counter, taking the food to small tables
to eat. [U. S.]

See Also: automat, eating house, eating place, restaurant