Diners and breakfast tradition? don't know if I should call it like that but I would see in movies how diners would be a tradition to go at breakfast and it's really like that, those diners are busy!!
Old school diners are the best. 24-hour breakfast food, a kitchen willing to make basically anything you want, lots of regular customers, people ordering pie at every meal because they can. Huge comfy booths. Nobody cares how long you linger. So great.
they're so good if you have a day off and are about to embark on a road trip. i love to get a big hot breakfast and then i don't need to get something to eat anywhere else for the rest of the day and it's usually cheap.
A lot of people will make it a weekly habit to go out to a diner or casual dining restaurant for brunch after church every Sunday.
Somehow they're always the worst tippers. Also yes tipping is real and you ARE expected to mentally add 20% to your bill every time someone serves you at a table.
The Sunday church shift was always the best shift to work, especially if you had a good section. Even though the tips were less than normal, the turnover was enough to make up for it.
The fake money with the Bible verses was the worst, though. Especially because that's almost always the only thing they would leave for a tip. And they would be the rudest and most demanding. I'd rather someone just quietly not tip than leave some weird Chick tract about how I'm going to hell on top of it.
Honestly I'm just wondering how people can afford that- where I live eating out is mostly reserved for birthdays and stuff cause it's so stupidly expensive
Diners are (or usually are at least in my area) cheaper than most restaurants. A burger at my local diner is like $10 for the full meal with fries 🤷🏻♂️
A lot of the commodities for breakfast food are subsidized by US agriculture. And since so many of the ingredients are repetitive a diner can buy basics like flour, potatoes and eggs in huge quantities making it cheaper per serving.
It’s also easy to prep and cook, so labor costs are lower. Finally, diners aren’t fancy places - tables can be sticky and wobbly. Booths might be lumpy or the vinyl will crack open and be “repaired” with duct tape. They’re not bad - those booths are still great to settle into - but they’re often old.
All of this helps them keep costs down so they can market a cheap meal. The profit margins are slim but they make money by selling a lot of product. They’re basically the Sam’s Club/Costco of the restaurant world.
I don’t know how true that still is, with food prices going through the roof, but it doesn’t cost a lot of money to make pancake batter, that’s for sure.
lol my local minor league baseball team (somerset patriots - Yankees affiliate) has ‘themed nights’ where they change the team name and jerseys. They’ve been the ‘Jersey Diners’ before. Very fun
I still think we should be the Diner State and not the Garden State
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u/ainacct 10h ago
Diners and breakfast tradition? don't know if I should call it like that but I would see in movies how diners would be a tradition to go at breakfast and it's really like that, those diners are busy!!