lunch counter
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishlunch counterˈlunch ˌcounter noun [countable] old-fashioned a place that serves simple meals for lunch, or a small restaurant that is only open at lunchtimeExamples from the Corpuslunch counter• Nothing can compare to the sense of well-being that washed through me at that filthy lunch counter.• Perhaps not incidentally, a white demonstrator in 1964 joined black people in a Mississippi lunch counter sit-in.• When we got off to eat I had to lead her by the hand to the lunch counter.