This stone cafeteria building was constructed in 1948-1949 to serve the students of the Theodore Roosevelt School, and it is the last building constructed here that is part of the Fort Apache Historic District. Before its construction, the westernmost enlisted men's barracks, no longer standing, served as the school's kitchen and dining room. Throughout most of the boarding school era, academic education was secondary to vocational and domestic training, and children provided much of the labor necessary for the school's daily operation, including laundering clothing, cleaning the dormitories, working in the school gardens, and preparing and serving food in the cafeteria.