Illustration: In a casual Japanese cafeteria, a customer carries their meal tray to a station containing stacked cups, a water dispenser, chopsticks and folded napkins. They have taken a cup themselves and now press it beneath the dispenser spout while balancing the tray against their hip.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

セルフサービス

serufusaabisu

self-service

Example sentences

  1. カフェテリアは料理りょうりを自分じぶんで取とるセルフサービスのレストランです。

    A cafeteria is a self-service style restaurant.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 当店とうてんはセルフサービスだ。

    This store is self-service.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 関西風かんさいふうお好このみ焼やき屋やの業態ぎょうたいとして、オーダーごとに生なまの具材ぐざいと生地きじを客きゃくに提供ていきょうし、客きゃくが自分じぶんで調理ちょうりし焼やき上あげる半はんセルフサービスの店みせがある。

    Some Kansai-style okonomiyaki restaurants are partly self-service: customers are given raw ingredients and batter for each order and cook the food themselves.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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