A crowd of 200 crammed around long cafeteria tables; pitchers of red wine flowed, and chili producers from Maturuca, Brazil, passed hot sauce.
A man known as Brother Sanchez approached the men who sat, still in their coats and warm knit hats, at a long cafeteria table at the Help House Love Kitchen, inside the Manhattan Bible Church in Inwood.
When it rains, they go inside, playing dominos at one of the long cafeteria-style tables in the center, socializing with the other men and participating in the English as a Second Language classes offered by the church.
City workers and volunteers relentlessly piled the long, cafeteria-style tables with mounds of pink and white plumeria picked that morning at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center near downtown and delivered in black, seemingly bottomless lawn bags.
Among the many dishes behind the long, cafeteria-style counter are chewy-crust, made-on-the-spot pizzas ($2.99 a slice), sandwiches on focaccia rolls for about $7 (the moist turkey meatloaf is delicious), whole-wheat wraps and many side dishes, including a minty tabbouleh, a "sea and earth salad" blend of hajiki seaweed and various grains, and marinated kale with almond slivers.
He searched out some old graffiti he'd doodled about the cricketer Ian Botham and slipped into a reverie as he recalled the long-lost cafeteria and the dancehall and the night the storm blew out glass from the roof.
They sweltered in a hot school cafeteria long after you had left, practicing over and over and over while waiting their turn.
You can't erase memories of long lines, tasteless cafeteria food, dilapidated dorms or campus jobs that some angry graduates didn't get.
Jhinuk is less a restaurant than a cafeteria, with long bare tables leading to a steam-table at the front.
The other students sat at long tables in the cafeteria, mostly silent, nervousness and fear on their faces.
The run on the cafeteria meant long days for Michael Friend, who manages most of the building's eating and drinking places.
