A dining area in an institution where meals may be purchased (as above), provided, or brought in from elsewhere.
A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat.
One who dines.
A typically small restaurant, usually modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other, and often decorated in 50s and 60s pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades.
A dining car in a railroad train.