Word: diners
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...this sweet machine revs up Harvard’s students. This fall, the Eliot Grille, a student-run snack bar in Eliot House, is getting a neat new facelift. Proposed changes would transform its previous, drab decor into something that resembles a ’50s diner. Nondescript walls will now be washed in bright red and blue. And the House is buying ’50s-style furniture to complement the new paint job. This furniture would add to the Grille’s existing collection of retro furniture. Movie posters on the walls and records hanging from...
...It’s difficult to staff and run a business at those late hours. But, we feel it’s worthwhile and we’re certainly willing to make the commitment to maintain those hours if given permission.” The opening of the diner Flat Patties, the newest venture from the owners of Felipe’s, is scheduled for later this month. “Whether we get the license or not,” Brush said, “we’re going to have a good business here either...
...wannabe entrepreneurs the secrets of accounting or international law. Instead, Professor Li Zhiguo instructs his 1,600 students on a graver subject: manners. A line, he lectures, should be an orderly procession, not a rowdy scrum. Spitting on the street is not nice. When eating a Western meal, the diner should cut meat into small pieces with a fork and knife, although that should never be done to bread. And remember: if hosting Americans at a restaurant, don't order endangered species or internal organs. "We think they are delicacies, but Americans think they are disgusting," he says, as students...
...stealing from his boss, who has ties to organized crime. Eventually Nick crosses paths with Caprice, who works as a waitress and struggles with a self-destructive streak that always seems to lead her to the wrong guys. Meanwhile Phoebe, a teenager from the sticks, arrives at the diner where Caprice works in order to find the owner, her father who left her 15 years earlier. Lastly, and most memorably we have Steve, a creepy weirdo. While displaying an obsessive interest in pop music, particularly the work of Ray Beam, Steve slowly descends further and further into isolated madness...
Every Tuesday night, the basement bar of Annex Restaurant, a quaint Italian-American diner just outside the Princeton campus, enjoys a sudden influx of customers as soon as West and Glaude’s three-hour graduate seminar on the African-American intellectual tradition lets out. It’s a group of students about 15 strong, and West comes out with them every week. The crowd takes up four or five tables, and they’ve never missed a week as long as class has been in session...