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Lcchang Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Cafe and cafeteria

Are they the same to certain extent?

Is cafe like a coffee shop? And cafeteria is like a self-service restaurant serving buffet meals? Can McDonalds be considered a cafeteria? Would you name a few places in the US which are cafe? Lyon's? Danny's? Please advise.

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Cafe => A coffeehouse; a restaurant; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 It also refers to a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold [synonym: coffeehouse, coffee shop, coffee bar] A cafeteria => A restaurant in which the customers are served at a counter and carry their meals on trays to tables. => A dining area, as at a school or office building, where meals may be purchased or brought from home and eaten.

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  • Cafe => A coffeehouse; a restaurant; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served.
  • Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 It also refers to a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold [synonym: coffeehouse, coffee shop, coffee bar] A cafeteria => A restaurant in which the customers are served at a counter and carry their meals on trays to tables.
  • => A dining area, as at a school or office building, where meals may be purchased or brought from home and eaten.
  • McDonald is not known as a cafeteria.
  • It always advertises itself as a restaurant, or a “family” restaurant.
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Cafe => A coffeehouse; a restaurant; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998

It also refers to a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold [synonym: coffeehouse, coffee shop, coffee bar]
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