Talk:Cafeteria

This article has been renamed from Cafeteria (structure) to Cafeteria as the result of a move request.

WPFood assessment
The is article is a C-class high importance article.

It needs attention in the following areas:
 * Copy edit for structure, prose and duplication's
 * References from reliable sources
 * Copy edit for punctuation and grammar.

--Jeremy ( Blah blah... ) 05:22, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Conflicting Information
I have learned from a broadcast of Hidden Chicago on PBS that the term Cafeteria was coined in Chicago. Yet, this article states that is of Spanish origin and coined in Los Angeles and another claims that it was coined in New York (Hutchinson Encyclopedia) Ishmael Rufus (talk) 06:27, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

America-centered
This article is really US-centered, it says nothing about dutch-style cafetaria's... Someone should write something about that. --62.251.90.73 28 June 2005 18:15 (UTC)

Is Michigan State University's cafeteria system really special enough to warrant its own section here? I think not. Teflon 12:21, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Is there a reason all the external links are to MSU websites? Gentgeen 22:15, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm guessing the person writing it was an MSU student, and those are the sources he had.


 * Is there a further article that continues upon the idea of school cafeterias, especially in younger public schools where the students are not allowed off campus, being a monopoly because there is only one place you can buy food. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lionglzer (talk • contribs) 19:38, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Spanish Cafeteria
I dont think that link is really anything to do with this article. Here in Spain a "cafetería" is a café or coffee shop elsewhere. Not the same thing at all as what this article is about. Rosa.blaus 09:13, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Pictures in this article
I took the liberty to remove one picture. In my opinion it was not a very good one because most of it was the back of a chair and the floor. Please put back if you like but an alternative would be better. Miguel Andrade 16:15, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Disambiguation
Shouldn't this article be Cafeteria without the (structure) part? I understand that there is an organism named Cafeteria, but really, wouldn't most people be looking for the structure anyway? If the genus does ever get its own article, we can link it from the top of this article. Do we really need a separate disambiguation page? Lusanaherandraton (talk) 21:32, 18 April 2008 (UTC)


 * No, you're quite right, we don't. Creating the redirect has caused a load of misdirected internal links to the new dab page rather than to the original cafeteria article. I started fixing them, then engaged my brain properly and realised the only sensible solution was to send the original article back where it came from and disambiguate at the top of the page.  I'll sort it out (and undo my dablink "repairs", ho hum).  Ka renjc 17:35, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Requested move
I've checked with the user who created this page and the dab page at Cafeteria, and he's fine with the proposed move back, so I've requested the move at Requested moves. -- Ka renjc 19:13, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Sounds reasonable. With two candidates, it's enough to say For the microscopic organism, see Cafeteria (bicosoecid) and Cafeteria roenbergensis. on top of the article. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 20:22, 15 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Moved successfully. I think I fixed most of the links. Kopf1988 (talk) 20:50, 16 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your help :) -- Ka renjc 21:54, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Pictures
We currently have five images of the table space in five different settings (including one historical), one image of cafeteria trays, and one image of a tray line. I'm wondering if perhaps it'd be appropriate to rearrange the images a bit, moving the cafeteria tray line server image to the top somewhere and bump one of the table space images down, since the tray line server image is in the see also section. PCHS-NJROTC (Messages) 01:56, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * , the article is overillustrated. It'd be fine to cut out or replace some of the lower-quality images if you or anyone else is up for it. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 20:54, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I just 86ed four of them, let me know if you disagree with my choices on which ones to remove. I picked ones that I didn't think added much to the article. I was torn between removing the David Shankbone Colorado one and the Port Charlotte High one because the David Shankbone one was taken with a better camera, but the PCHS one shows a common concept not captured in the Shankbone one (a school food court/cafeteria). PCHS-NJROTC  (Messages)Have a blessed day. 01:00, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

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North America
"A cafeteria, sometimes called a canteen outside the U.S. and Canada"

That's a strange sentence. It's sometimes called that inside the U.S. and Canada, too!

Merriam-Webster includes this definition of "canteen" in their dictionary, with no remark as to any regional variation. 2601:602:A080:1240:8887:99C1:C3AA:FF11 (talk) 05:41, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Writing 10 - Both Classes
— Assignment last updated by ProfHobbit (talk) 17:43, 23 April 2024 (UTC)


 * @Ian (Wiki Ed), assignments like this don't give me faith that Wiki Education is succeeding. The student came in, added an unsourced, non-neutral paragraph about dining hall food quality, and then did a supposed copy edit that replaced nice simple language with more complex language (e.g. using to utilizing) and also wiped out a reference, citation needed tags, and a beneficial image (that I spent some time on Commons seeking out to find the best visual representation of the subject). Oh, and they retitled the reference section to "College cafeteria". All this under an instructor who has been doing Wikipedia assignments for more than two years (meaning dozens of assignments). Where is the oversight here? I shudder to think of the possible damage being done to articles that don't happen to have an editor happen to check in on them.  Sdkb  talk 22:17, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * @Sdkb, unfortunately our system is not 100% foolproof, but we try our best to catch these kinds of poor quality edits when we come across them. In our trainings, we instruct students to support their contributions with reliable sources. We also instruct them to engage in discussions and to be ready to improve their edits. Despite the available resources, poor quality content still makes its way to mainspace. When that happens, it's expected for student editors to be treated like other Wikipedia editors, and learn that they're responsible for the quality of their edits. If I catch them in time, I will take the appropriate action for the content, and either reach out to editor to ask them to improve their contribution or revert the edit.
 * Each course has their own Wiki page with information on the instructor and the Wikipedia Expert assigned to that course. Editors can always ping one of the Wikipedia Experts to alert us of concerns with student editors (as you did). Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:35, 30 May 2024 (UTC)