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restaurant

noun

ˈre-stə-ˌränt

Definition of restaurant

as in diner

a public establishment where meals are served to paying customers for consumption on the premises when we get sick of cooking dinner at home, we like to go out to eat at a nice restaurant

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Recent Examples of restaurant When word got around this week that the North Collins Street restaurant might be closing after 37 years, friends rallied around Airways and gave it a business boost to keep it around through Dallas Cowboys football season. — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Sep. 2026 Mertz’s menu at the 28-year-old restaurant is inspired by her childhood. — Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2026 The restaurant overlooks the harbor, where orange Staten Island ferries pass by. — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Sep. 2026 After founding Jala in Florida five years ago, swearing it would not be a cookie-cutter Indian restaurant, Maax has decided to open a location in the KC metro. — Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for restaurant

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All-day diner Fenix trades typical coffee shop fare for an interactive robatayaki grill, sushi bar, and tandoor oven.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2026
Pollo Asado is back at Chipotle and diners will also soon have a new side item to try the protein with.

— Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026

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For instance, your colleagues may be very agreeable and kind to their boss but rude to their more junior colleagues, or the cafeteria waiter.

— Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
No high-profile violent incidents have occurred at Killian in several years, not since a freshman girl was beaten up in the cafeteria in 2018 – but a bad rap can be a tough thing to shake.

— Austin Horn August 29, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of cafeteria

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