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Word: drapeau (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last customer leaves. Two cheeseburgers sit by the fryolator, and Drapeau and Michael Smith sit and smoke at the back counter...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: Eating Hot Dogs at the Midnight Hour | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

...business has grown so much we don't have as much time to interact with the customers," says Drapeau. "I used to have a great time here...I still...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: Eating Hot Dogs at the Midnight Hour | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

...Drapeau says some workers feel demeaned by working in a "hot dog shop." One employee, he says, used to play opera on the stereo...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: Eating Hot Dogs at the Midnight Hour | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

...wanted to show that he was serving hot dogs, but he was an intellectual," says Drapeau, chuckling. "His way of doing it was playing opera...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: Eating Hot Dogs at the Midnight Hour | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

Being unpretentious is the Tasty's primary asset, says Drapeau. "In here we have a good time. We won't let [the customers] read books--we tell them we have a deepseated fear of being thought of as a coffeehouse...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: Eating Hot Dogs at the Midnight Hour | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

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