In the mid-1980s, it was restored for use in "Ironweed," a film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep that was based on the novel by William Kennedy; the filmmakers called it the Miss Albany Diner, taking the name from a onetime chain of local diners.
Page 14 National A STRING OF ROBBERIES AT WAFFLE HOUSE DINERS Waffle House, a chain of 1,600 diners, has become a fixture of Southern life, serving grits, hash browns and crispy waffles, even on Christmas.
Britons are in the greasy grip of burger mania.Byron, a chain of posh burger diners, opened in 2007 on Kensington High Street, a ritzy bit of west London.
Waffle House, a ubiquitous chain of yellow-roofed diners, is as much a fixture of Southern life as the grits, hash browns and crispy waffles that it serves all day, every day, even on Christmas.
At the rates he's charging — from $5 for the teriyaki to $8 for the small fillet, including beverage — he's in the ballpark with lots of diners and chain places.
With his Happy Days co-star Anson Williams, who played Potsie, he opened a chain of Big Al's Diners in the American midwest, and appeared in a 1994 music video for the band Weezer, who hailed from Kenosha.
In this study of diners at fast food chain restaurants in four New England cities, we found that participants purchased large meals, and adults, adolescents, and (parents of) school age children underestimated the calorie content of those meals by 175 calories, 259 calories, and 175 calories, respectively.
2 Compared with that study and other previous research, 1 4 our study has the advantages of a large sample size, comparison of diners at six restaurant chains across four cities, recruitment of a racially and ethnically diverse study population in three age groups, and investigation of predictors of underestimation.
He said he had been "taking dollar signs off menus for 25 years," Susan Franck, vice president of marketing for the chain, said she was intrigued about the four types of diners Mr. Rapp had identified.
