Krisch's, which serves a full diner-style menu as well as ice cream, has a 1950s-style décor with vintage Coca-Cola ads and red vinyl booths.
Jason had no doubt the roof here would hold, and the generator, even on Monday, with full diner occupancy, sputtered a bit but kept the lights on and the freezers cold.
When the full diner opens -- fingers crossed for later in December, according to reports -- it will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner in a more casual atmosphere than the flagship.
The restaurant was full, diners deep into their meals, their voices leaping to the high dark ceiling, then seeping back down.
The six-year-old restaurant, a large rectangle of space in a strip mall, has high ceilings, lots of glass and nothing to blunt the sound of a full house (130 diners), the servers, the kitchen activity and, on one Thursday, an overamplified singer and his guitar.
Trump tweeted an hour later that once he gets involved, the "price will come WAY DOWN!" Day 24 – Feb. 12: Donald Trump apparently discussed national security issues (specifically, North Korea's test-firing of a ballistic missile) on a Mar-a-Lago terrace full of diners and staff.
The restaurant at this point has come to a full hum with evening diners filing in to the point that we are almost shouting in each other's faces.
Costs (the staff, the food, the flowers, electricity) are pretty much the same whether there is a single diner or a full house.
Ida Mae's Bruncherie (2302 East Norris Street; 215-426-4209; www.idamaesbrunchomey.cornera homey corner diner, serves a full Irish breakfast, with eggs, rashers, bangers, white pudding, fresh soda bread, baked beans and more ($9).
His father, born in Sparta, Greece, and one of six brothers and four sisters to emigrate to America in the 1940s and '50s, has been here every day including and since the night of the storm, serving up a full menu of traditional New Jersey diner fare 24/7.
