dining facility
Place serving meals
A dining facility is a place where meals are served, typically in institutional settings like military bases, universities, or corporate campuses.
The term is bureaucratic and euphemistic, often replacing blunter words like cafeteria or mess hall: The base dining facility serves three meals daily.
In military usage, it has largely supplanted mess hall in official communications.
- chow hallMilitary cafeteria
- cafeteriaSelf-service dining facility
- menuList of available dishes
- restaurantPlace serving meals
- refectoryInstitutional dining room
field kitchen · eatery · canteen · mess hall · seating · diner · food court · commissary · buffet · hot bar · salad bar · all you can eat · tableware · luncheonette · chow line · serving line · coffee shop · menu board
- military facilitiesmilitary base, command center, army base, air force base, headquarters
- military basesoldiers, barracks, HQ, troops, hangar
- Military Airfieldsairfield, runway, runways, hangar, hangars
- military rationsMRE, K-rations, C-rations, ration packs, ready-to-eat meals
- military clubsofficers mess, officers' mess, wardroom, sergeants mess, gunroom
dining facilityhome kitchen
Residential food preparation room
private residence · kitchen table · breakfast nook · bedroom · living room
dining facilitybarracks
Soldiers' residential building
dormitory · recreation room · administrative office · sleeping quarters · latrine
dining, facility, diners, dinner, dinners, dinnertime, facilities, facilitate, facilitated