family meal
Together at table
A family meal is food served to restaurant staff before or after service, eaten together in the kitchen or dining room.
The tradition builds camaraderie and lets cooks use up ingredients creatively: Family meal today is fried rice with yesterday's vegetables.
Outside restaurant contexts, family meal simply means a meal eaten together by family members.
- dining tableFurniture for seated meals
- dinnerPrimary evening meal
- kitchen tableFurniture for home meals
- feastElaborate ceremonial meal
- sharingDividing among others
gathering · breaking bread · tradition · saying grace · picnic · school dinner · bonding · quality time · recipes · Sunday dinners · warmth · nostalgia · belonging · supper · storytelling · holiday feasts · leftovers · passed down
- combo mealsbreakfast combo, bundle deal, chicken bucket, party pack
- meal setsbreakfast combo, lunch special, dinner special, prix fixe, tasting menu
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
- frozen dinnersTV dinner, Swanson, Lean Cuisine, frozen dinner, Healthy Choice
- genre scenesdomestic scene, tavern scene, market scene, village scene, dining room
- restaurant lingoeighty-six, in the weeds, on the fly, all day, heard
family mealeating alone
Consuming food unaccompanied
bachelor dinner · desk lunch · single serving · room service
family mealà la carte
Separately priced dishes
TV dinner · desk lunch · tasting menu · grab-and-go · fast food
family mealformal dinner
Ceremonial evening meal
state dinner · banquet · business dinner · working lunch · gala dinner
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