cafeterie noun2 •(old-fashioned) Cafeteria.A central kitchen serves a cafeterie, seating two hundred; a café, seating seventy; and a lunch counter with stools for forty. — 1909 •(old-fashioned) Pantry, stillroom.It appeared that the cafeterie was the very lowest post in the hotel, and a dreadful come-down for a waiter […] — 1933 formscafeteries