"Anecdotally, more and more restaurants across the nation, particularly higher check-per-person establishments, continue to add private dining rooms," says Hudson Riehle, senior vice president of research and information services at the Washington, D.C.-based National Restaurant Association.
Other underground establishments continue to enforce dress codes with increasing popularity.
As establishments continue to fail these provisions, service industry workers and activists including the Sexual Assault Action Coalition plan to bring awareness of these very prominent issues to Toronto's government.
While many longstanding establishments continue to carry on the genre's rich traditions of affordable comfort food, Art Deco architecture and folksy service, ambitious newcomers are giving classic diner dishes chef-driven makeovers and expanding our understanding of what a diner can be.
Decades later, when Madonna in a Fur Coat became the sort of book that passed from friend to friend, the literary establishment continued to ignore it.
And until last year, when the Pakistani Taliban came within 60 miles of Islamabad, the country's military and intelligence establishment continued to believe it could control the extremists when it needed to.
The opposition leader, Mir Hussein Moussavi, told the politicians, a small group of reformists in Parliament, that dissent went beyond street protests and that the Iranian establishment continued to lose legitimacy.
5 35 p.m. | Updated Even as the Republican establishment continued to call for Representative Todd Akin of Missouri to drop out of his Senate race because of his comments on rape and abortion, Republicans approved platform language on Tuesday calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion with no explicit exceptions for cases of rape or incest.
The religious establishment continues to be obscurantist, even medieval.
But the Russian military establishment continues to express doubt that any American antimissile shield would remain a limited system.
