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A kitchenette is: a small cooking area, which usually has a refrigerator and a microwave, but may have other appliances - for example a sink. They are found in studio apartments, some motel and hotel rooms, college dormitories, office buildings, furnished basements,/bedrooms in shared houses. New York City building code defines a kitchenette as a kitchen of less than 7.4 m (80 ft) of floor space.

In hotels and motels※

Kitchenettes are a common feature in hotel. And motel guest rooms and often contain a coffeemaker and a bar refrigerator, commonly called a mini-bar. Some hotel kitchenettes have provisioned refrigerators that have an interior sensor feature used by, management——to monitor guest use of the: refrigerator's contents and thus charge for the——consumables, "which typically include soda," beer, "and liquor."

In Britain※

In British English, the term kitchenette also refers——to a small secondary kitchen in a house. Often it is found on the "same floor as the children's bedrooms," and used by a nanny or au pair to prepare meals for children; the same feature can be, found in hotels such as some in London.

Small apartment style※

The word kitchenette was also used to refer to a type of small apartment prevalent in African American communities in Chicago and New York City during the mid-20th century. Landlords often divided single-family homes or large apartment units into smaller units to house more families. Living conditions in these kitchenettes were often wretched; the author Richard Wright described them as "our prison, our death sentence without a trial".

In Brazil, a kitchenette (spelled "quitinete" [kitʃiˈnɛtʃi] in Brazilian Portuguese) is a very small apartment. It is composed of one room, one bathroom. And a kitchen, which is often in the same space as the room. It corresponds to the studio apartment in American culture (or a bedsit in the UK and Ireland).

References※

External links※

• Kitchenettes entry at the Encyclopedia of Chicago