Hey British English experts,
We're currently debating over whether to use the term "cafeteria" (as we've used in past years) or "canteen" in one of our publications to denote the category of self-service eateries in general (and not work canteens specifically). For your information: we use BE as a standard in our publications, but since we're addressing an international audience, will revert to the internationally best-understood term in case the BE norm might lead to confusion.
What seems to be the consensus (if any) amongst BE speakers? Is "canteen" the general term that you would use when going to dine at work, at a museum, at a university, etc.?
From my CE perspective, I would tend to using "cafeteria" as the general term for all such establishments, while "canteen" would be especially common in the work world. But I know that this isn't necessarily true all over the world.
Thanks in advance!
P.S.: I realize that this topic has already been addressed in this forum, but I couldn't find any satisfactory answers to my problem in the existing threads.