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company cafeteria; staff canteen; office cafeteria
An in-house dining facility at a company, where employees can buy meals at subsidized prices. Used both for the cafeteria itself and for the meals served there.
昼は社食で食べる。
I eat lunch at the company cafeteria.
社食のメニューが毎日変わる。
The cafeteria menu changes every day.
うちの社食は安くて栄養バランスもいいので、ほぼ毎日利用している。
Our company cafeteria is cheap and nutritionally balanced, so I use it almost every day.
Casual abbreviation of 社員食堂 (employee cafeteria). Common in spoken language and informal writing; the full form is preferred in formal contexts.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 社食で食べる: to eat at the company cafeteria
- 社食の定食: cafeteria set meal
- 社食利用券: cafeteria meal ticket
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 社員食堂: employee cafeteria (full form)
- 学食: university cafeteria (same abbreviation pattern)
- 食堂: cafeteria; canteen (general term)