kitchenette

A kitchenette or kitchenet 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 in studio apartments, some motel and hotel rooms, college dormitories, office buildings, furnished basements, or bedrooms in shared houses. New York City's building code defines a kitchenette as a kitchen of less than 7.4 m2 (80 ft2) of floor space. thumb|A kitchenette in a studio apartment in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.

==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 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.