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...Empire Deli: out by Fenway, this B.U. hangout is on the expensive side and probably not worth it. But it has real waitress service and offers just the right atmosphere if you're tired of rotten Ralph yelling at you in Tommy's. It's hard to tell when they have beer on tap, but it stops some time late in the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge After Hours | 6/23/1985 | See Source »

...Stater, don't be shocked when the waitress at Chi-Chi's tells you she can't accept your Ohio driver's license. That's because according to the legislation passed this year "you can't use your state driver's license and must get a Massachusetts i.d. to drink," said Dot Nichols, an official in the Governor's office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Grand Dad | 6/23/1985 | See Source »

...waitress looks too tired and too jaded to be offended. The jaws of the truckers move mechanically as they fork up their eggs-over-easy. They stare at the slides, glassy eyed, as intent on chrome as on flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Road: a City of the Mind | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

They have just started drinking their coffee, and the driver with the Roadway cap calls over the waitress, telling her there is salt in the sugar he put in his coffee. She is pale, thin, young, has dark circles under her eyes. The truckers have been teasing her, and she doesn't trust them. She dabs a bit of sugar from the canister on a finger and tastes it. Salt. She samples sugar from the other canisters. They have salt too, and she gathers them up to replace them. Someone is hazing her, breaking her into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Road: a City of the Mind | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...waitress in the professional drivers' section is a big motherly-looking woman with red hair piled in careful curls on top of her head. She correctly sizes up the proper meal for the new customer at the counter. "Don't know what you want, honey? Try the chicken-noodle soup with a hot roll. It will stick to you like you've got something, and you don't have to worry about grease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Road: a City of the Mind | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

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