lunch line
Midday meal queue
A lunch line is the queue of people waiting to get food in a cafeteria, especially at a school: I spent half of lunch period standing in the lunch line.
The term evokes institutional settings—schools, workplaces, military mess halls—where meals are served assembly-line style.
- school cafeteriaStudent dining facility
- cafeteriaSelf-service dining facility
- trayShallow portable platform
- queueOrdered waiting line
- hungryWanting to eat
students · waiting · food · hot · serving · hairnet · pizza · milk · carton · gossip · crowded · bell · period · cutting · budging · trays · steam · menu
- elementary schoolclassroom, student, first grade teacher, reading skills, teacher
- school cafeteriaschool cafeteria, cafeteria, trays, meal trays, sporks
- schoolteachers, classrooms, classes, student, grades
- K-12 Schoolselementary school, middle school, high school, student, classroom
- cafeteriamenu, tray, food counter, trays, cashier
- school lunchpizza, chicken nuggets, mac and cheese, chocolate milk, french fries
service format
lunch linetable service
Meals brought to you
room service · fine dining · personal chef · private dining · packed lunch
lunch, line, lunches, lunched, lunching, luncheon, luncheonette, lines, lined