hot bars

Cafeteria serving area

Hot bars refers to a self-serve food station where prepared dishes are kept warm, typically found in grocery stores, cafeterias, and buffets: I grabbed lunch from the hot bar at Whole Foods.

Customers serve themselves and pay by weight.

The term also appears in hip-hop slang, where hot bars means impressive or skillful rap lyrics: That verse had some hot bars.

Related

metal · iron · double entendre · word play · alloy · grab-and-go · food service · rhyme scheme · punchline · serves · freestyle · spit fire · racks · buffets · cadence · steam table · metaphor · lyricism

Opposites
food temperature service

hot barssalad bars

Self-serve vegetable stations

cold cases · sushi bar

food preparation state

hot barsraw bar

Uncooked shellfish counter

salad bar · fruit bar

type of prepared food offered

hot barssalad bars

Self-serve vegetable stations

raw bars · fruit bars · dessert bars

Family

hot, bar, hotter, hottest, hotly, hotness, bars, barred, barring

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G