Word: diners
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...Similarly, Song says, using an offbeat typeface to obscure a dish's description may signal hidden value to an unsuspecting diner on unfamiliar ground. That may explain the implicit logic employed by restaurants offering exorbitant entrees described with elaborately scripted fonts in microscopic print...
...from payment. We eat now and pay later, making the pain of paying lower and the enjoyment from the meal higher. We can even push the pain of paying to a more extreme level. Imagine that when you step into the restaurant the waiter tells you that the average diner eats about 50 bites and spends about $50 in this restaurant, making it a dollar per bite. He further informs you that today they have special deal of $0.5 per bite, and that a waiter stands a few feet from your table will watch you and mark every bite...
...chickwich. Though both contestants hesitated to demand this favor of strangers, the thought of less chickwich ultimately won.DeSantis walked to the end of the dining hall and patiently explained her predicament.“Is this for some kind of experiment?” asked one doubtful diner.“No,” DeSantis quickly assured, hoping that the kind soul would agree to her offer. He did.Even with the introduction of the one-bite rule, the competitors felt a little queasy. They were ready for the Pepto. DeSantis shook the bright pink bottle vigorously...
...primary season. The largely positive media coverage he previously enjoyed has been replaced by a tenser relationship. The candidate now limits his availability to the political press corps, and recently snapped at a reporter who tried to ask a question while he was eating breakfast at a Pennsylvania diner...
...serious as she ticks off depressing economic statistics, brightening only to talk about the boom of the 1990s and how she can return the economy to those good old days. "The typical working family has gotten about $500 in tax cuts from George Bush," Clinton said at the diner in Harrisburg. "Now $500 is not nothing, but the typical family has lost about $1,000 in income. So everybody's behind and that's not the way it used to be; during the '90's everybody was doing better. So what I have been proposing...