cafeteria worker
School meal preparer
A cafeteria worker is someone employed in a cafeteria—typically preparing food, serving meals, operating cash registers, or cleaning.
The term most often refers to school cafeteria staff: The cafeteria workers went on strike over wages.
Also called lunch ladies or lunch workers in school contexts.
- lunchMidday meal
- lunch ladySchool meal server
- trayShallow portable platform
- plastic trayFlat synthetic carrier
- hairnetMesh head covering
hair net · apron · serving · ladle · counter · steam · serving line · school · school lunch · hospital · food · meals · food service · meal prep · line · scooping · portions · gloves
- food workersbutcher, bartender, server, caterer, chef
- hourly jobsday laborer, factory hand, laborer, part-timer, temp
- School Servicesguidance counselor, school nurse, librarian, special education, tutoring
- school staffteacher, teachers, principal, professor, librarian
- Student JobsRA, teaching assistant, research assistant, tutor, lab assistant
- institutional foodschool lunch, hospital food, mess hall, chow hall, galley
culinary hierarchy/prestige
cafeteria workerexecutive chef
Senior kitchen authority
celebrity chef · master chef · chef · head chef · gourmet chef
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