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...wouldn't leave without a kiss. So Kimberly, a blonde college-age student with an evah so slight Southern drawl, leaned over the counter of the Tasty Diner in Harvard Square and kissed Karl Stevens, the late night grill cook, smack on the lips. The exchange was great entertainment for tasty patrons at 2:30 a.m. one recent Thursday night, what Karl calls the bar crowd. And the standing room only crowd cheered...
Actually Karl, who sports a small hoop earing and a scruffy reddish-brown beard, is a 21-year old guitar student at the Berklee School of Music. He says he gets a kick out of playing up to late night visitors who expect bizarre behavior from a diner cook. "Sometimes I practice my expressions before a mirror," he jokes...
...could philosophize about the Tasty, the ebb and flow of different types of people all caught up in the constant motion of time. I could wax eloquently about how the clamor of people crowded into this vintage 1950s diner mimicked the musical rhythms of "Classic Hits" WZLX...
When Harvard students visit the Tasty pack into the cramped diner, they behave as though they were standing around in Weld Hall and a freshman party. There's constant noise, fights break out and couples make out. These are not model customers; they aren't real people. In fact Karl has to make some of them pay ahead of time because he knows they'll run out on him after they have eaten their food...
...complained so much about the food when he went here. I can't understand--it's pretty good," said one satisfied, if perplexed, diner...