Akitchenette is a small cooking area, which usually has a refrigerator and a microwave oven, but may have other appliances - for example a sink. They are found instudio apartments, somemotel and hotel rooms, college dormitories, office buildings, furnished basements, or bedrooms inshared houses. New York City'sbuilding code defines a kitchenette as a kitchen of less than 7.4 m2 (80 ft2) of floor space.[1]
Kitchenettes are a common feature in hotel and motel guest rooms and often contain acoffeemaker and a bar refrigerator, commonly called amini-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 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 ananny orau pair to prepare meals for children; the same feature can be found in hotels such as some inLondon.
The wordkitchenette was also used to refer to a type of small apartment prevalent in African American communities inChicago 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 authorRichard Wright described them as "our prison, our death sentence without a trial".[2]
In Brazil, a kitchenette (spelled "quitinete" or "kitnet"[kitʃiˈnɛtʃi] in Brazilian Portuguese) is a small apartment with one room, one bathroom, and a kitchen which is often in the same space as the room. It corresponds to thestudio apartment in American culture (or abedsit in the UK andIreland).
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