In his Chicago Sun-Times column, Roger Simon advised, “Never eat in a restaurant where the waiters sing ‘Happy Birthday.’” He echoed the spirit of the author of the “Lonely Man’s Doggy Bag Diary” who wrote in the Oakland Tribune that along with lobster bibs, wooden menus, flames,...
There are actually three towns named Needmore in the Hoosier State. One is in Brown County, another in Lawrence County, and the third can be found in Vermillion County. The Brown County location was supposedly named after a visitor who said the area "needed more." But then, don't we al...
Since then I have photographed just short of 900 different diners throughout a good portion of the eastern United States, from Maine to Virginia and Tennessee as well as a few in Florida and one in Georgia and into the midwest area counting a handful in Ohio, Michigan and Illinois. In thi...
For instance, a few years backAmish in a Nebraska settlementran a restaurant in a distant town, requiring them to make a 60-mile one-way trip. Amish sisters in Arthur Illinois operateRoselen’s Coffee Shop, not quite a restaurant, but with its own drive-thru. Many Amish operate small sa...