Cantina

A canteen ( from Italian cantina " bottle cellar " ) is a restaurant within a company or public institution that serves the catering staff with primarily warm meals during work breaks, usually the lunch break (time exception are, inter alia, hospital and theater canteens ). Frequently components meal is available. As a rule, only employees and visitors to the farm to visit the canteen. In many companies, the canteen for the employees is subsidized; external persons must then usually pay a higher food prices.

According to a study of the agri lobby GmbH CMA include German canteens per year 2.24 billion visitors and make 5.12 billion euros. (October 2004)

Some full-day and comprehensive schools have school canteens for students, faculty and staff. In countries with compulsory full-time education, such as France, United Kingdom and United States, the canteen is part of the school day and can be found in every school. The canteen at German universities called Mensa. Cafeteria -like dining establishments, which set out to less times only drinks and snacks will be issued, often called cafeteria, actually a term for a specific form of self -service restaurants. By switching to the all-day school operations have more and more German schools have their own cafeteria.