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noun a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier
originBorrowed from Mexican Spanish cafetería (“coffeehouse”), from cafetera (“coffee maker”), from French cafetière, from café, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”). Doublet of cafetière.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0