Chinoiserie, at Park Avenue South and 26th Street, bathes its French-Chinese fusion food and concrete tables in a sumptuous red silk glow, creating the effect of a princeling's school cafeteria, after hours.
Mr. Killeen's day starts in the splendid isolation of his cramped office at 6 a.m. as he prepares his staff of 53 for breakfast (7 a.m. to 11 a.m).; he leaves the cafeteria 13 hours later.
At universities, there are similar opportunities for presidents and practical measures that ease Muslim student life, like adjusting a cafeteria's hours to allow for pre-sunrise eating and night-time break-fasts.
Yep, cafeteria food, long hours at my desk, no time to workout and lack of sleep.
They could only go to the cafeteria during certain hours, and they often had to wait for most of the day to be seen by medical staff.
Having previously written in college cafeterias in stolen hours between teaching classes, he finds a kind of aesthetic tranquillity amid the tumult of daily life.
The downtown institutions of late night like Florent and the Empire Diner are gone, but their spirit lives on at Cafeteria, a 24-hour modern diner that opened in 1998 on Seventh Avenue at 17th Street.
The 230-room hotel, which opened last year, also houses a 24-hour cafeteria, as well as a full-service coffee and cocktail bar.
At the end of two hours, the cafeteria empties out.
Still, even with staggered lunch hours, the cafeteria could easily resemble the crowded sidewalks of the newly overhauled Times Square.
