On one visit, a large party was seated on one side of a short room divider; on the other side, diners were grouped at tables set close together.
If the agents ate at diners in groups, the bounty hunter sat alone on the stool at the far end, with a view of the door, a glimpse of the kitchen and the bathroom.
In a nonsinging role in William Inge's 1955 drama, "Bus Stop," she received a Tony nomination as the lonely but tough-talking owner of a Kansas roadside diner where a group of travelers takes refuge during a snowstorm.
One night last week, as Schumer sat down for dinner, the only other diners were a group of out-of-town electric-company executives and Representative Dennis Kucinich, of Ohio, who is running for the Democratic Presidential nomination.
Sometimes a place will open, you'll hear that it has a great pedigree and it'll get fantastic reviews ('I put a spoonful of mousse in my mouth and heard the angels sing!'), but when you decide to try it, it's worryingly easy to get a table, and the only other diners are a group of pissed mobile-phone salesmen.
From a cluttered dinner table littered with chopsticks but no diners, to a group of pink veil-clad girls gathering around a door for some unknown reason, the photographs are mundane yet beautiful, like snapshots from a visual diary.
And in Barry Levinson's "Diner," at midnight, a group of Baltimore friends (played by Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Daniel Stern and Kevin Bacon, among others) struggle with growing up.
That way it feels more like people dancing in a diner rather than a group of dancers dancing in a diner.
He needs to take the time it takes, whether it's in a diner or some large group setting," Vander Plaats said.
Delivering the fish to a group of diners one night, Ms. Thaimee leaned forward.
